Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Psychological Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology Diane Sivasubramaniam is Chair of the Department of Psychological Sciences at Swinburne University. She is currently Director of the Social Psychology of Innovation (SPI) Research Group at Swinburne, and leads (with Dr. Sam Wilson) the Public Interest Technology Research Program in Swinburne University’s Social Innovation Research Institute. Diane was awarded her PhD from the University of New South Wales in 2006. Before moving to Swinburne University, she completed Postdoctoral Fellowships at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and Barnard College, Columbia University, and was an Assistant Professor at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT) in Canada. Diane's research focuses on the social psychology of procedural and distributive justice.
Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Notre Dame Australia Deborah Pike is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Notre Dame Australia.
Senior research fellow, Griffith University Dr Diti Bhattacharya is an emerging leader within human geography with a focus on the study of leisure studies, migration, and sporting cultures. Diti is a Research Fellow in an ARC Discovery Project with the Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research at Griffith University. Her research interests include fitness cultures, sporting geographies, migration, heritage and mobilities. She is currently investigating the ways in which sporting practices and fitness cultures can be used as a social conduit through which marginalised communities experience a sense of belonging and community in Southeast Queensland. Diti is recognised for her interdisciplinary research on women, physical cultures, migration and belonging. Her research has advanced novel theoretical and conceptual frameworks for addressing new challenges arising from the increased attention on migrant women, intersectionality, belonging and leisure activities. Trained as a human geographer Diti specialises post human critical feminist theories, non-representational theory, mobilities and affect and in her work. Her work aims to bring a fresh and intersectional lens on the development of critical postfeminist analysis in the fields of leisure studies, migration and mobilities, specifically within the Australian context.
PhD Candidate Investigating Australian Espionage Fiction, University of the Sunshine Coast David Rymer is PhD candidate investigating the history of Australian espionage fiction at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia. Besides critical genre and place studies in espionage fiction he is a published author of The World in Prints, The History of Advertising Posters from the Late 19th Century to the 1940s (2019), a past contributor to the Australian Financial Review on leadership and innovation, and an established nonfiction freelance ghostwriter with works spanning nanotechnology, finance, property, and retail. His unpublished manuscript Havoc was a semi-finalist in the U.S. ScreenCraft Cinematic Book Competition (2022). Previously, David lectured in journalism and marketing law at Murdoch University’s Dubai campus. His other fields of interest are the points of convergence between the espionage fiction genre and companion genres.
Research Clinician, University of the Witwatersrand Darshnika Lakhoo is a research clinician in the Wits Planetary Health Research Division and a medical doctor with a master’s in public health. Her research focuses on understanding and mitigating the impacts of heat on maternal and child health, and other vulnerable populations. Before her current role, Darshnika completed her internship and community service as a medical doctor in public health facilities in South Africa, and managed clinical research on COVID-19. Darshnika is a registered medical practitioner with the Health Professions Council of South Africa.
Professor of Political Science, Emory University I am a professor of political science at Emory University. I am the award winning author or editor of several books, and dozens of articles. I work in international relations, especially issues of violent conflict and US foreign policy.
