PhD Student in Sport, Health and Exercise Science, University of Hull I am a PhD student and Graduate Teaching Assistant, teaching and researching within the area of exercise physiology. I am broadly conducting research looking at the health benefits of high intensity interval training (HIIT), an increasingly popular type of exercise. I believe exercise is an important part of daily life and can have profound benefits to your health over time. I work and study at The University of Hull where I am studying for a PhD in Sport, Health and Exercise Science. I also obtained my Master of Science in Sport Science and Bachelor of Science (Hons) in Human Biology at The University of Hull. My main research interest is attempting to make HIIT accessible to a larger portion of the population by reducing the intensity needed while training, so making this form of exercise easier to complete. While I appreciate this form of training will not be suitable for all, I do believe, a well-designed HIIT programme can be used as part of someone's regular training programme.
PhD candidate in Japanese studies, University of Sheffield I received a BA in Asian and African Studies from Russia's Institute of Practical Oriental Studies in 2012 and a MA in Japanese Studies from the School of East Asian Studies at the University of Sheffield in 2015. In 2010-2011, I spent a year at Hosei University in Tokyo as an exchange student. I am currently conducting PhD research on the transformation of Japan's grand strategy towards China and contemporary US-China-Japan trilateral security relations. My articles on Japan's history and foreign policy have been published in Russian and English.
Associate Professor in Social Work, Australian Research Council Future Fellow, Flinders University After completing his PhD, Damien Riggs undertook a three-year ARC-funded postdoctoral fellowship before commencing his role as a lecturer in Social Work at Flinders University. He is currently an Australian Research Council Future Fellow, and an Associate Professor in social work. Area of Research: Critical kinship studies, Critical race and whiteness studies, Gender and sexuality studies.
Professorial Fellow in Human Security, La Trobe University Dennis Altman is a writer and academic who first came to attention with the publication of his book Homosexual: Oppression & Liberation in 1972. This book, which has often been compared to Greer’s Female Eunuch and Singer’s Animal Liberation was the first serious analysis to emerge from the gay liberation movement, and was published in seven countries, with a readership which continues today. Since then Altman has written eleven books, exploring sexuality, politics and their inter-relationship in Australia, the United States and now globally. These include The Homosexualization of America; AIDS and the New Puritanism; Rehearsals for Change, a novel (The Comfort of Men) and memoirs (Defying Gravity). His book, Global Sex (Chicago U.P, 2001), has been translated into five languages, including Spanish, Turkish and Korean. In July 2013 UQP will publish his latest book, The End of the Homosexual? Most recently he published Gore Vidal’s America (Polity) and Fifty First State? (Scribe). Altman was Professor of Politics and Director of the Institute for Human Security at LaTrobe University in Melbourne, and is now a Professorial Fellow at La Trobe. He was President of the AIDS Society of Asia and the Pacific (2001-5), and a member of the Governing Council of the International AIDS Society [2004-12]. In 2005 he was Visiting Professor of Australian Studies at Harvard, and was a Board member of Oxfam Australia. In 2007 he was made a member of the Order of Australia.
PhD Candidate in the School of Communication, The Ohio State University David Clementson is a PhD Candidate in the School of Communication at The Ohio State University. He has been published in Presidential Studies Quarterly, the Journal of Language and Social Psychology, Mass Communication and Society, the Journal of Political Marketing, the International Journal of Sport Communication, the Encyclopedia of Deception, and the Encyclopedia of Politics and Social Media. Before grad school he worked professionally for nearly a decade in strategic communication, politics, and public relations. He was a political campaign manager and strategist (for successful Democrats and Republicans), the press secretary and director of communications for state attorneys general, a journalist (for newspapers and magazines), and a public relations director.
Research Fellow, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University I am the Research Fellow to the UNESCO Chair for comparative research on cultural diversity and social justice, within the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University. I wrote my Doctoral dissertation on the Turkish Muslim transnational organisation known as the Gülen Movement, which was published by Oxford University Press entitled 'The House of Service: The Gülen Movement and Islam's Third Way.' My research interests are Muslim movements, Turkish politics and society, religion and development, and the Middle East.
