Professor of law, Penn State Professor Dara E. Purvis is a scholar of family law, contracts, feminist legal theory, and sexuality and the law. She is particularly interested in the intersection between gender stereotypes and the law. Her most recent work examines gendered impacts of the law and proposes neutralizing reforms, most recently in the context of how the law defines parenthood. Prior to joining Penn State Law, Professor Purvis was a visiting assistant professor at the University of Illinois College of Law and a visiting fellow at the University of Kent Research Centre for Law, Gender, and Sexuality. A former editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal, she clerked for The Hon. Gerard E. Lynch, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and The Hon. Raymond C. Fisher, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Professor, School of Psychology, The University of Queensland Derek Arnold is a sensory neuroscientist who has published >100 papers, often in some of the world's most prestigious scientific outlets. He has specific research interests in Aphantasia - commonly known as mind blindness, Visual Perception and Time Perception.
President, METI International; Professor Emeritus, California Institute of Integral Studies Douglas Vakoch, Ph.D., is President of METI International, a nonprofit research and educational organization dedicated to transmitting intentional signals to nearby stars, as well as fostering sustainability of human civilization on multigenerational timescales—a prerequisite for a project that could take centuries or millennia to succeed. Dr. Vakoch is a frequent science commentator on television programs that explore astrobiology - the hunt for life in the cosmos, including the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). His expertise includes space exploration, the societal impact of science, COVID-19, and environmental threats to humanity's long-term survival. He has published more than two dozen books covering the search for life beyond Earth, COVID-19, the psychology of space exploration, transgender studies, ecofeminism, sustainability, and science fiction.
Lecturer in Structural Engineering, Loughborough University Prior to joining Loughborough, Mohamed studied for a PhD at Manchester University, an MSc from Al-Azhar University in Egypt, an MEng from Grips University in Japan, and a DipEng from the IISEE institute in Japan. Mohamed also has more than 7 years of industry experience as a structural design engineer working with international construction organisations. Mohamed's research interests are related to the response of steel and composite structures to focusing on the areas of structural fire engineering, structural earthquake engineering robustness, with particular expertise in the areas of experimental testing as well as computational modelling.
Howard Paterson Chair of Theology and Public Issues, University of Otago David Tombs is a lay Anglican theologian and the Howard Paterson Chair of Theology and Public Issues, at the University of Otago, Aotearoa New Zealand. He has a longstanding interest in contextual and liberation theologies and their application to social issues. He is originally from the United Kingdom and previously worked at the University of Roehampton in London (1992-2001), and then in Belfast, Northern Ireland, for the Irish School of Ecumenics, Trinity College Dublin (2001-2014).
Teaching Fellow in Pharmacy Practice, Kingston University I have a Master of Pharmacy and am a registered pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council as well as a member of my professional body, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society. As an academic pharmacist, I teach pharmacy undergraduates and have achieved my Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education and obtained Senior Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (now known as Advance HE). I am also the pharmacy course director and equality, diversity and inclusion lead for the pharmacy department. I supervise student-led research in the discipline of pharmacy practice.
