Associate Professor in Communication & Public Policy, Michigan State University Daniel Bergan specializes in public opinion and experimental work on advocacy campaigns. He uses field experimental designs to test the impact of citizen contacts to policymakers on public policy. In recent work, he has also explored the sources of partisan polarization in public opinion. His academic publications have appeared in the Journal of Politics, Public Opinion Quarterly, the Journal of Communication, and other journals.
Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, Queen's University Belfast Des O’Rawe is a senior lecturer in Film Studies at Queen’s University Belfast, where he is also a Research Fellow at the Mitchell Institute for Conflict Transformation and Social Justice. He is interested in interdisciplinary approaches to the study of film and visual culture. His publications include: Regarding the Real: Cinema, Documentary, and the Visual Arts (Manchester University Press, 2016), and Post-Conflict Performance, Film and Visual Arts: Cities of Memory (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).
Deputy Director of Environmental Futures Research Institute, Griffith University Darryl Jones is a behavioural ecologist working in the fields of urban ecology and wildlife management. He is especially interested in urbanisation and the way certain species are adapting to this process. He has long-term interests in megapodes (mound-builders), corvids and the implications of garden bird feeding.
Professor, Child and Adolescent Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health,, University of Sydney Professor Dianne Campbell leads the NACE Training & Innovation Hub, which will support and mentor the next generation of allergy experts through six competitive PhD scholarships and four competitive post-doctoral fellowships. Prof Campbell is an academic Clinical Paediatric Immunologist, with 28 years experience in clinical allergy and immunology. She completed a PhD at the University of Melbourne and subsequently held a postdoctoral position at Stanford University. Prof Campbell served as Chair of Allergy and Clinical Immunology at the Children's Hospital Westmead/Sydney University (2010-2019). She is an author of more than 150 peer-reviewed manuscripts and has a h-index of 44. She has led randomised controlled trials in peanut and egg allergy – the most common cause of food allergy in Australian children. She is a Chief Investigator in NHMRC clinical trials, including OPIA, PrEggNut and OPTIMUM, and is a Chief Investigator in the NHMRC funded Centre for Food & Allergy Research, hosted at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute. She has played major roles in the creation of national prevention of food allergy guidelines, standardisation of food challenges and anaphylaxis education and training for schools and childcare, serving as Chair of the Paediatric Subcommittee for Australian Society for Clinical Allergy and Immunology (2010-2016). Prof Campbell also has extensive experience overseeing and developing paediatric graduate and postgraduate curriculum, previously serving as the Head of Paediatrics and Child Health, Sydney Medical School. She has recent biotechnology experience in her role as SVP, Clinical Development and Medical Affairs at DBV-technologies.
Brian Mulroney Institute of Government Research Chair in Climate Science and Policy, St. Francis Xavier University I am a specialist in gas emissions measurement and data processing techniques, to quantify emissions in natural and industrial settings. My ‘FluxLab’ team at St. Francis Xavier University consists of almost 30 students and professional researchers. We been involved in ecological gas measurement projects from pole to pole, monitoring design for CO2 deep injection sites, but most of our work has focused on quantifying methane emissions from Canadian industry. In recent years we have made gas emission measurements at over 15,000 oil and gas facilities across North America, both onshore and offshore, and over 120 landfills from coast to coast. Our work helps policymakers, regulators, and industry better understand and manage greenhouse gas emissions.
Postdoctoral Researcher in Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara My research focuses on American religions and secularism, specializing in how new religious movements, Asian American religions, and the religiously unaffiliated shape modern American culture. I employ humanistic and social scientific methods to investigate how religion is constructed through discourse, practices, and institutions. I have published work on the Universal Life Church and contemporary American weddings, organic foods in new religious movements, biodiversity and spiritual wellbeing, and religion in the American West. Current projects include the Meaning of Religion Project, part of an intergenerational study of religion, spirituality, and values funded by the John Templeton Foundation; the Secular Communities Survey, the largest-ever study of organized nonbelievers in the U.S.; a co-edited volume (with Melissa Borja) on Asian American Religions, Religious Freedom, and the State; and a monograph on the Universal Life Church. I am also developing articles about the Orientalist origins of the brainwashing concept and its application against Asian American new religions, the Esalen Institute’s spiritualization of geopolitics, and the federal taxation of religious groups. I have conducted podcast interviews and written articles for the Religious Studies Project, published book reviews and encyclopedia entries, and contributed articles for academic blogs. These can be found here. I am co-chair of the AAR’s Sociology of Religion Unit and I serve on the steering committee of AAR’s Asian North American Religion, Culture, & Society Unit. Previously, I was a visiting assistant teaching professor at the University of Southern Mississippi and a lecturer at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
