Visiting Fellow, Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science, Australian National University I've been a leader, communicator and collaborator across several policy areas across several agencies in the Australian Public Service and am currently a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness. I have two PhDs (which I'm finding similar to having two driver's licenses) - one in film and literature, the other in policy communication. My most recent publications include How Government Experts Self-Sabotage (ANU Press) and “Peep show: a framework for watching how evidence is communicated inside policy organisations” (Evidence & Policy).
Professor of Anthropology, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz Carola Lentz earned her doctorate at the University of Hanover in 1987 and qualified as professor (Habilitation) in 1996 at the Free University of Berlin. From 1996 until 2002 she was professor of anthropology at Goethe University Frankfurt, and from 2002 until 2019 at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, where she is currently senior research professor. She served as president of the German Anthropological Association (2011-2015) and vice-president of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (2018-2020). Visiting professorships and fellowships have taken her to France, the Netherlands, the United States and South Africa. As a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study Berlin she led a focus group on the subject of Family History and Social Change in West Africa (2017-2018). Her research interests include ethnicity, nationalism, colonialism, politics of remembrance, middle classes in the Global South and labour migration. She conducted field research first in South America and, since 1987, regularly in West Africa. Her publications include Land, Mobility and Belonging in West Africa (2013), Remembering Independence (2018) and Imagining Futures: Memory and Belonging in an African Family (2022). Since 2020, she serves as president of the Goethe-Institut.
Professeur de Relations du Travail, HEC Montréal Christian Lévesque is full professor at HEC Montréal and the co-Director of the CRIMT, the Interuniversity Research Centre on Globalization and work He is also co-responsible for the research activities on Industry 4.0, Work and Employment undertaken at the OBVIA, the International Observatory on the Societal Impacts of IA and Digital Technology.
Associate Professor of Criminology and Justice Studies, UMass Lowell Claire S. Lee, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the School of Criminology and Justice Studies and a Member of the Center for Internet Security and Forensics Education and Research (iSAFER). She is a Core Personnel of the Center for Asian American Studies and a Fellow of the Center for Public Opinion. Using her interdisciplinary and multilingual background, Lee’s research focuses on deviance and crime in cyberspace, cybersecurity, cyberterrorism, social media, and the social implications of social and new technologies. She studies these issues using quantitative, qualitative, computational, and mixed methodologies. Lee conducts research focusing on comprehending the mechanisms and networks of deviant behaviors at both the state and individual levels, with a particular emphasis on those facilitated by cyber-resources or located in cyberspace. Additionally, she explores the online and offline behaviors and patterns of various social phenomena, as well as the behaviors of terrorists, extremists, and the general public.
Pro Vice-Chancellor of Research, University of Technology Sydney I am an experienced, positive, energetic and optimistic leader, scientist, entrepreneur and author. I have the privilege to be the Pro Vice-Chancellor of Research at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). I champion the value of research findings in decision-making and am passionate about universities supporting the rapid decarbonization of the global economy to reach net-zero carbon pollution. To help reach this goal, I was a Founding Director, Inventor and am now a Scientific Advisor to the New Zealand-based cleantech company CarbonScape (www.carbonscape.com) which has developed technology to covert plant material into locally-produced, sustainable, carbon-negative bioengineered graphite for lithium-ion batteries. To cut through the noise surrounding 'Fake News' and 'Alternative Facts', it's so important universities share discoveries, their implications and opportunities for society. With Imagine Entertainment, iHeart Media, Awfully Nice, and an incredible lineup of inspirational guests, I am excited to be hosting a new podcast series called 'Unf**king the Future' which will explore the sobering climate reality our planet faces today and the common–sense solutions that can be implemented now to save it. My research has generated over 240 research papers, a h-index of 68, and been cited in policies and patents around the world. I have received several major prizes and medals. In 2014, the Australian Academy of Science honoured me with the Frederick White Prize for the understanding of natural phenomena; in 2007, I was awarded the inaugural The Sir Nicholas Shackleton Medal for outstanding young scientist for pioneering research. I completed a prestigious Australian Research Council (ARC) Laureate Fellowship at the University of New South Wales (Sydney) in 2015. I am also a Non-Executive Director of Cicada, the Sydney-based incubator of deep tech innovation (www.cicadainnovations.com), and a Non-Executive Director of the NSW Government’s Environment Protection Authority (EPA) to help deliver a thriving and healthy environment for the beautiful state of New South Wales.
Associate Professor of Film and Television, Bournemouth University Christa van Raalte began her career in theatre, moved into Further Education and then Higher Education, working in a number of management positions before re-calibrating to focus more of her energies on research. Christa is currently Associate Professor in Film and Television and Head of the CEMP (Centre for Excellence in Media Practice) research centre at Bournemouth University. Her research addresses the experience of working in the television industry, including career development, retention and the ‘leaky’ talent pipeline, management practices, workplace bullying and media education. She has published on these themes in academic journals as well as in industry-facing reports. Dr van Raalte also publishes on representations of gender and on narrative strategies in film and television texts. Her article 'More than just a few ‘bad apples’: the need for a risk management approach to the problem of workplace bullying in the UK’s television industry', co-authored by Richard Wallis, was published earlier this year in the Creative Industries Journal.
