Professor of AI and Spatial Computing, Liverpool Hope University I am a Professor in Computer Science. Having attained my Ph.D. in 1995, researching in the fields of intelligent agent systems, I joined a newly formed group at Liverpool University dedicated to developing and promoting innovative technological solutions for local businesses. After implementing the first electronic shopping mall in the UK, I spent eight years providing technical leadership on many Internet and Intranet projects. These projects usually involved exploiting newly emergent technology. My current research interests are derived from experience gained in both my academic and industrial backgrounds, and include: AI, Augmented and Virtual Reality and Spatial Computing.
Assistant professor, Radboud University David de Boer is an assistant professor of political history at Radboud University Nijmegen and a postdoctoral research at the University of Amsterdam. He is broadly interested in how people in the past thought about moral obligation, created transnational solidarity networks, and managed migration in a globalizing world. His award-winning first book, The Early Modern Dutch Press in an Age of Religious Persecution: The Making of Humanitarianism (Oxford University Press, open access, 2023) explores how 17th century refugees leveraged the printing press to draw international attention to their suffering – thereby laying the foundations for modern humanitarianism. David studied history at Utrecht University and received his PhD from the University of Konstanz and Leiden University (joint doctoral degree). He was a visiting scholar at the German Historical Institute Washington, the European University Institute, the Leibniz Institute of European History, and Harvard University.
Associate Professor, Department of Agribusiness and Markets, Lincoln University, New Zealand I joined Lincoln University in 1993 and have enjoyed the mostly relaxed and collegial workplace. I work with a diverse and changing group of people on campus as well as several longstanding and newly-established international networks to forward my eclectic but marketing and analytics-centred research interests. My research interests are in the marketing of experiential products (food and wine) and services (creative tourism, hospitality, and emerging food services) and the development of analytics for measuring and analysing social media interactions. If you would like more detailed information and and my academic publications, please visit: https://researchers.lincoln.ac.nz/david.dean
Senior lecturer, Above the Bar School of Educational Studies and Leadership, University of Canterbury After completing a BA in Education and Political Science and working for several years for an aid and development organisation, I completed a PhD in Education on the Politics of Colonial Education in New Caledonia. I have spent my academic career teaching and researching at the University of Canterbury mostly at the intersection of Education and Politics including critical analysis of the neoliberal model of education and the role of education in the development of and challenges to the colonisation of New Zealand. In 2010 I also completed an LlB and have held a lawyer's practising certificate ever since. I also teach a postgrad course on Education Law and have researched and published in the area of law, rights and the war on terror. I have retained an interest in New Caledonia throughout having first visited there in 1983 after attending the Fourth Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific Conference in Vanuatu. I spent December 2023 in New Caledonia on the island of Ouvéa where the 1988 massacre of 19 Kanak activists occurred and in Nouméa where I attended meetings of the CCAT and the Mouvement des Océaniens Indépendantistes.
Professor of Environmental Conservation, University of Greenwich Debbie Bartlett is an established and professional Chartered Landscape Architect (Management Division), Fellow of the Chartered Institute for Ecology and Environmental Management and Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Her current role is as Professor of Environmental Conservation at the University of Greenwich, and she has over 35 years’ experience combining local government, consultancy, teaching, and research. She is particularly interested in landscape scale management, including the social and economic factors affecting resilience to environmental/climate change.
