PhD Candidate, School of Animal, Rural & Environmental Sciences, Nottingham Trent University Emily Harper is an ecologist specialising in hedgehog health, behaviour and stress. Her research focuses on parasites and their relationships with their host, the hedgehog. She is interested in the way parasites can impact health, change behaviour and the interactions between parasites and stress. Harper is a part-time PhD candidate at Nottingham Trent University after completing a MSc in Applied Ecology at the University of Gloucestershire, where she continues to guest lectures on wildlife rehabilitation ethics. She is the manager at Wild Hogs Hedgehog Rescue, a well established hedgehog charity that has been running since 2016. Wild Hogs Hedgehog Rescue admits over 500 hedgehogs into rehabilitation annually and Harper is dedicated to rescuing hedgehogs and improving the care hedgehogs receive in rehabilitation.
Psychology Researcher, the Danielsen Institute, Boston University Elise Ji Young Choe, M.S., Ph.D., is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Danielsen Institute. She completed her doctorate in Counseling Psychology at Georgia State University. Dr. Choe’s research and clinical interests include how forgiveness, humility, religion/spirituality, and other virtues may promote resilience for individuals involved in interpersonal conflict. She is also interested in virtues that promote helping behavior in bystanders. Dr. Choe is also interested in cross-cultural adaptation of interventions and models. Her dissertation examined the possible effects pressure to forgive may have on individuals forgiving a romantic partner over time. Clinically, Dr. Choe has had training in CBT, DBT, and ACT approaches to short-term therapy in a variety of settings (e.g., college counseling centers, employee assistance program, community mental health). Dr. Choe has a feminist, multicultural lens for therapy, believing in equalizing the power within the therapeutic relationship, collaborating with the client, and attending to the intersections of the client’s diverse identities for a holistic approach to psychotherapy.
PhD Candidate, School of Medicine and Dentistry, Griffith University Ella is a PhD Candidate in the School of Medicine and Dentistry at Griffith University, overseeing communications for the Ethos Project. Her primary focus in this role is to engage the community and key stakeholders using various communication channels. Ella develops Ethos-focused editorials, manages the Ethos Newsletter, and creates visually appealing materials such as posters and flyers. Most recently, she led the production of the Ethos heat communication videos and the Ethos Policy Report. Currently pursuing a PhD focused on heat communication, Ella's research interest is in driving behaviour change among older adults through innovative heatwave communication strategies. Her academic background includes a Master of Public Health, a Bachelor of Medical Science, and an honours degree in Environmental Science. Additionally, she studied Fine Art at the Pennsylvania College of Art and Design, which helps her communicate health issues through a creative lens.
Lecturer in Psychology and PhD Researcher in Psychology and Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin Elva Arulchelvan is completing a PhD in psychology and neuroscience for the Lab for Clinical and Integrative Neuroscience in Trinity College Dublin (TCD), Ireland. She is also a lecturer in psychology for social work students in TCD. Elva's PhD research focuses on memory and forgetting processes. In particular, her PhD research involves investigating peripheral nerve stimulation's effect on memory and forgetting in both clinical and non-clinical groups. Elva has a keen interest in making research accessible to everyone, and loves sharing her research through writing or giving talks and presentations. Prior to her work in the field of psychology, Elva completed a Bachelor of Commerce International with Chinese in the University College of Dublin. After graduating from that degree, she spent several years working in tech companies (incl. Deliveroo and HubSpot) helping commercial clients grow their sales using these platforms' services. She also spent time working as a project manager launching an Italian restaurant, an Italian import company and an immigration via investment company, before recognizing that her real passion lay in understanding people, and how our decisions and wellbeing can be influenced by much more factors than most people realize. This led her to pursue a degree in psychology, and subsequently to her current PhD research and lecturing work.
Lecturer in Digital Marketing, College of Business, Arts and Social Sciences, Brunel University of London Ezgi (PhD, MBA, BA (Hons), FHEA) is a Lecturer in Digital Marketing within the Marketing Division within Brunel Business School. Her primary research interest has focused on the contexts of robotic services, virtual experiences, and the social influence effects in those settings. Ezgi published in international academic journals, such as Annals of Tourism Research, Journal of Consumer Behaviour, and Behaviour & Information Technology. She is the recipient of prestigious funds such as the British Academy/Leverhulme and Marketing Trust and the Best Paper Award in the AMA Winter Conference. She currently serves in the Editorial Review Board of Psychology & Marketing. Mainly trained in consumer psychology using experimental methodology, Ezgi is interested in examining how various experiences (such as together-alone experiences, and virtual experiences) affect individual consumers. Her recent works look at the role of algorithmic and robotic services` impact on consumers and desired marketing outcomes. Over the years, she has established several fruitful research partnerships with co-authors from other countries, including Sweden, Denmark, and Turkey. She frequently collaborates across disciplines, serves in external boards and currently serves as RDA in two PhD student committees and co-supervising an external PhD student.
Lecturer, International Studies, University of Wollongong Eda Gunaydin is a Lecturer at the University of Wollongong. Her writing and research explores class, capital, intergenerational trauma and diaspora. You can find her work in the Sydney Review of Books, The Age, Meanjin and elsewhere. She has been a finalist for a Queensland Literary Award and the Scribe Nonfiction Prize. Her debut essay collection Root & Branch: Essays on Inheritance won the 2023 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction.
