Professor Emeritus, School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Dalhousie University Elizabeth Kay-Raining Bird, better known as 'Mandy', is a professor emeritus in the School of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Dalhousie University. Throughout her career, her clinical, teaching and research focus has been on the development, speech and language assessment and treatment of children with disabilities, particularly those from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. Mandy also advocates at provincial, regional and national levels to institute a Canada-wide basic income guarantee--a powerful tool for poverty elimination and individual and societal health promotion.
Health Sciences Assistant Professor of Clinical Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis Erik's research focus is in small animal primary care.
Associate Professor of Political Science, Michigan State University Erica Frantz (Ph.D., UCLA, 2008) is an associate professor in Political Science at Michigan State University. From 2011 to 2015, she was an assistant professor in Political Science at Bridgewater State University, and from 2008 to 2011 she worked as an analyst at the Institute for Physical Sciences. Her research and teaching interests include authoritarian politics, democratization, conflict, and development. She is particularly interested in the security and policy implications of autocratic rule. She has published four books on dictatorships and development, as well as articles in journals such as Perspectives on Politics, British Journal of Political Science, Journal of Peace Research, and Annual Review of Political Science.
Assistant Professor of Marketing, Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University Nell Putnam-Farr is an assistant professor of marketing at the Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University. Her research focuses primarily on how framing and contextual cues impact decision making and satisfaction. Within this domain, she considers how framing might have different effects on immediate decisions versus long term satisfaction and persistence, how contextual clues impact expectations and satisfaction, and how intercepting people at the “right” point in the decision process can impact attention and behavior. She works with company partners in the consumer packaged goods, wellness, and financial services sectors, focusing on how to improve financial and physical well-being. She relies on a combination of lab and field experiments – usually testing in the field with a corporate or non-profit partners and then working to determine a mechanism and/or boundary conditions in the lab.
PhD Candidate, Olfaction, Edinburgh Napier University Emily Spencer is a PhD candidate at Edinburgh Napier University. Her primary research area is in sensory perception, and she is currently investigating the ways in which the olfactory senses can be retrained following a loss of the sense of smell. As part of her research, Emily has delivered olfactory training and testing to numerous people living with olfactory dysfunction. After completing an undergraduate degree in Psychology with Sociology, Emily worked as a research assistant on various projects. These have included an investigation into the determinants of psychological distress in teenagers and young people affected by cancer, a study that focused on the link between socioeconomic factors and children’s cognitive development, and research into the effects of noise on creativity in the classroom.
