Contributors

Dax Kellie

Science Lead | Data Analyst, CSIRO

Science Lead | Data Analyst, CSIRO Dax is a data analyst and Science Lead in the Science Decision Support team at the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA). He works to make it easier for people to use ALA data for robust and transparent science. He has a PhD in evolutionary biology and social psychology from the University of New South Wales, Sydney. He is the editor of ALA Labs: https://labs.ala.org.au/

Dylan Liu

Lecturer in Food Science and Sustainability, Federation University Australia

Lecturer in Food Science and Sustainability, Federation University Australia

Dale Mitchell

Lecturer in Law, University of the Sunshine Coast

Lecturer in Law, University of the Sunshine Coast Dr Dale Mitchell is a Lecturer in Law at the University of the Sunshine Coast with a keen interest in the intersection between law and culture. His work within the field of cultural legal studies uses cultural artefacts (films, video games, novels, statues, costumes, interviews, etc) as a way of re-reading concepts of law and justice. This scholarship has gained national and international acclaim. In 2022, Dale was awarded the Julien Mezey Dissertation Prize from the US-based Association for the Study of Law, Culture and Humanities, who hailed his work as ‘innovative and rigorous’ and demonstrating a ‘theoretical clarity that pushes legal analysis forward in creative and engaging ways’. Dale is Secretary of the Law, Literature and the Humanities Association of Australasia.

Derick Blaauw

School of Economic Sciences, North-West University

School of Economic Sciences, North-West University Derick Blaauw received the Doctor Commercii (D-Com) degree in economics from the University of Johannesburg (UJ) in 2010. He is currently professor in the School of Economic Sciences at the North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus). Prior to taking up this position, he lectured economics on a full-time basis at the University of Johannesburg (UJ), Rand Afrikaans University (RAU) and at the Soweto and Bloemfontein Campuses of Vista University. He also lectured on a part-time basis at the University of the Free State (UFS) and Monash South Africa. His research interests are mainly in the field of labour and development economics. His current work focusses on the precarious forms of work and the socio-economic dynamics of vulnerable groups in the informal economy, such as car guards, day labourers, street traders and waste pickers. He has authored and co-authored several articles in respected accredited international and national journals and regularly presents papers at national and international conferences and symposia.

David S Ellsworth

Professor of Plant Eco-physiology, Western Sydney University

Professor of Plant Eco-physiology, Western Sydney University Professor David Ellsworth is Professor of Plant Eco-physiology at Western Sydney University. He was educated at Cornell University and the University of Wisconsin, and has held faculty positions at Duke University, the University of Michigan, and Western Sydney University. He leads a cutting-edge team of scientists who seek to understand how plants perform key biotic functions in relation to the environment they live in. He has made distinguished contributions in the areas of tree physiological ecology and effects of rising atmospheric CO2 on plant photosynthesis for over 20 years, and he is the scientific lead for the Eucalyptus free-air CO2 Enrichment experiment ('EucFACE'). Ellsworth has published extensively in the scientific literature about the effects of climate change and high CO2 on forest trees. He has interests in plant responses to climate change including how plants respond to urban stresses such as heat and drought. He has worked on tree photosynthesis for native and planted trees on five continents, though he prefers working on our native Australian flora. David ranks among the most highly-cited scientists in the world in the area of Ecology and the Environment.

Dipuo Winnie Kgotleng

Director, University of Johannesburg

Director, University of Johannesburg I hold a PhD in palaeo-archaeology from the University of the Witwatersrand. I have a passion for Plio-Pleistocene primates, palaeosciences policy and transformation.