Professor in Transport and Supply Chain Management and Deputy Director, Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies (ITLS), University of Sydney Business School, University of Sydney Professor Rico Merkert is Chair in Transport and Supply Chain Management and Deputy/Acting Director of the Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies at The University of Sydney. Equipped with a PhD in Transport Economics he has taught and researched at several high-profile institutions such as Cranfield University or Haas Business School (UC Berkeley) and is Visiting Professor at the University Johannesburg, South Africa. Rico is Associate Editor of Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, Advisory Editor and past EiC of the Journal of Air Transport Management, Associate Editor of the Journal of Transport and Supply Chain Management and an appointed member of two U.S. Transportation Research Board (TRB) standing committees. He has been a strategic advisor to boards and C-level management providing deep insights and research related to performance measurement/management, risk analysis/mitigation, global freight/distribution strategy, benchmarking, strategic management, innovation, supply chain analysis, economic impact evaluation, forecasting/demand analysis and sustainability strategies. This has been for clients such as Australia Post, Qantas, Air New Zealand, Thales Group, Transport for NSW, the Australian Federal Government, Asian Development Bank and a range of major logistics, freight forwarding, airline and airport companies, both in the global and regional context.
Adjunct Professor, UniSA STEM, University of South Australia Co-organised 1st International 'Sufficiency Summit' held 4 May 2023, moderated Session on urban and human settlements https://vimeo.com/user/11247580/folder/16482035 Leading research on sufficiency in planning and building at UniSA Background in architecture, urban and infrastructure planning within SA Government and private practice. Consultant to UN on sustainable infrastructure, clean environment and green growth. Chair of 'Ecological Development Union International Inc' (EDUI), which promotes, clean, resource efficient and r/circular economy, with China as main focus. Awarded Arup Global Research Grant 2017 for research on digitally enabled reuse of building components as a service. Completed book on "The Impact of Overbuilding on People and the Planet" (Cambridge Scholars, 2019).
Professor of Anthropology, Rice University Dominic Boyer is an anthropologist, media maker and environmental researcher who teaches at Rice University where he served as Founding Director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Research in the Human Sciences (2013-2019). His most recent books are Energopolitics (Duke UP, 2019), which analyzes the politics of wind power development in Southern Mexico and Hyposubjects (Open Humanities Press, 2021), an experimental collaboration with Timothy Morton concerning politics in the Anthropocene. With Cymene Howe, he made a documentary film about Iceland’s first major glacier (Okjökull) lost to climate change, Not Ok: a little movie about a small glacier at the end of the world (2018). In August 2019, together with Icelandic collaborators they installed a memorial to Okjökull’s passing, an event that attracted media attention from around the world and which caused The Economist to create their first-ever obituary for a non-human. During 2021-22 he held an artist residency at The Factory in Djúpavík, Iceland, and was a USC-Berggruen Institute Fellow in Los Angeles working on a project on “Electric Futures.” His next book is titled No More Fossils (U Minnesota Press, 2023) a discussion of fossil fuel fossils and what is to be done about them.
ARC Laureate Fellow and executive director, iCinema Research Centre, UNSW Sydney Scientia Professor Dennis Del Favero is an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow, Chair Professor of Digital Innovation at UNSW (Sydney, Australia) and a former Executive Director Australian Research Council | Humanities & Creative Arts. He is also Executive Director of iCinema Centre for Interactive Cinema Research (iCinema); Senior Visiting Fellow at the Royal College of Art (London, UK) and Member of Editorial Committee of Quodlibet Studio Corpi (Rome, Italy). Del Favero is internationally recognised as an innovator in the field of visual art using cutting edge technology. His collaborative research program comprises art led work across the fields of humanities, engineering and science, exploring extreme climate events using advanced AI visualisation systems. His research has been widely exhibited in major group exhibitions including International Symposium of Electronic Art, Art Cologne, International Film Festival Amsterdam, Biennial of Seville, Battle of the Nations War Memorial Leipzig (joint project with Jenny Holzer) and Sydney Film Festival, and in solo exhibitions in museums and galleries such as Sprengel Museum Hannover, ViaFarini Milan, Neue Galerie Graz and ZKM Karlsruhe. His work is represented by Galerie Brigitte Schenk, Cologne and Kronenberg Wright Artists Projects, Sydney.
Research Fellow in Energy Transition, University of Toronto Scarborough, University of Toronto Daniela is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences – University of Toronto Scarborough, Canada. Daniela has been engaged on her fellowship project titled “Beyond technological fixes - Fostering justice and equity in the transition to sustainable heating technologies in Canada (FITTING)”. The research critically analyses how governance and politics affect a socially just, inclusive, and equitable access to sustainable and affordable heating technologies in Canada. Daniela has a PhD in Livelihood (international and rural development), and apart from conducting research in energy sector, she has also research interest in issues concerning rural and agricultural development, food security and nutrition, adaptation to environmental and climate change, political economy of service provision, and sustainable, just, and equitable development.
Head of Division, School of Business and Creative Industries, University of the West of Scotland My expertise is based on my practice as a widely pubished songwriter, performer, broadcaster and commentator as well as through my work in originating academic programmes of study, developing knowledge exchange projects as well as through practice-based research. My creative practice output includes many published albums, songs and high-profile performances, my broadcasting has concentrated on Scottish music culture with six full series of radio documentaries on Scottish albums broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland and BBC 6 Music; some of this work has been adapted and developed for academic presentations within conferences and in postgraduate teaching. I have also adapted creative practice in this way by using my community music practice as the basis for some recent practice-based-research around mining and traditional song narrative (Pits, Ponies, People & Stories). In summary my research expertise resides primarily in the following areas: Songwriting Popular Music History Scottish Music Culture Community and Participatory Arts Current research activities My recent activities have centred around practice-based research undertaken as part of South Lanarkshire Council's Pits, Ponies, People & Stories heritage-based project. My sound piece Where Is God, which considers contemporary narratives around the Syrian refugee crisis through the lens of the famous traditional song The Blantyre Explosion, was presented at CCA Glasgow and Tokyo Metropolitan University as part of the Azimuth project in 2016. I developed one of my BBC Classic Scottish Albums programmes - Glasvegas - for a paper at the 2015 Singing Storytellers Symposium at Cape Breton University titled Stabbed! Towards a Musical Tartan Noir and I continue to develope research ideas around the list of programmes made. More recently I have completed a book chapter in collaboration with Dr Jo Collinson-Scott for Bloomsbury Academic and their Guide To The Singer Songwriter on sustaining careers in the digital age. The book will be published later in 2017. I am currently bringing some research around Scottish music culture together with my own music output for a practice-based PhD proposal to commence later 2017
