Contributors

Enock Sithole

Lecturer, University of the Witwatersrand

Lecturer, University of the Witwatersrand PhD in climate change communication.

Elizabeth Stratton

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Sydney

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Sydney Dr Elizabeth Stratton is a postdoctoral researcher with The University of Sydney. Her body of work has focused on the stigma, discrimination and disability of mental health in the workplace and, importantly, developing and evaluating ways to tackle this. Elizabeth developed a world first web-based decision aid tool to assist employees in deciding if and how they should disclose their mental health problem or not. The rationale behind this research was the complexity of disclosure decision-making, and the identification of several barriers to disclosure. The program, called “READY?” was evaluated in a randomised controlled trial (RCT) trial where it was shown to be more effective in terms of disclosure and improving people’s mental health than the online disclosure and discrimination information provided by Australia’s leading mental health charity. Those using READY? experienced an improvement in depressive symptoms and reported greater decision confidence. ONLY participants who used READY? subsequently disclosed their condition, and the 25% who did disclose experienced even greater mental health benefits. As an end-user focussed researcher, she has partnered with the NSW government’s Mentally Healthy Workplace program to bring READY? to scale and make it freely available to 100,000’s of workers. The early phases of her ECR carer are focussed on evaluating the uptake and real-world impact of this in mental health and wellbeing. Additionally, she has developed strong evidence synthesis skills leading to several published systematic reviews of mental health and wellbeing interventions.

Erik Kool

Postdoctoral Researcher in Astronomy, Stockholm University

Postdoctoral Researcher in Astronomy, Stockholm University

Enrique Morán Tejeda

Profesor de Climatología , Universitat de les Illes Balears

Profesor de Climatología , Universitat de les Illes Balears Licenciado (2004) y Doctor (2011) en Geografía por la Universidad de Salamanca. Investigador Posdoctoral en el Institute des Sciences de l'Environment (Universidad de Ginebra, 2012-2014). Investigador Juan de la Cierva en el Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología-CSIC (2014-2015). He realizado estancias de investigación en la Universidad Estatal de Colorado (EEUU) y en el Instituto de Meteorología, Hidrología y Estudios Ambientales de Colombia. Actualmente soy Profesor de Climatología en el Departamento de Geografía de la Universidad de les las Islas Baleares. Mis líneas de investigación abarcan las interacciones entre el clima y los sistemas hidrológicos en el contexto del cambio global. El objetivo es profundizar en el conocimiento sobre los posibles impactos del cambio climático y los cambios en los uso del suelo en los recursos hídricos de zonas con alta sensibilidad ambiental, como son la cuenca Mediterránea, y las regiones de montaña

Elita Chamdimba

Research fellow, Centre for Social Research, University of Malawi

Research fellow, Centre for Social Research, University of Malawi Elita Chamdimba is a Sociologist / Social Work expert who since 2018, has been a Research Fellow at the University of Malawi’s Centre for Social Research (CSR). Elita is currently studying for her PhD in Social Work at University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. She’s also the founder and former director (2014 - 2022) of Little Big Prints, a youth organization in Zomba (southern Malawi) equipping and supporting adolescent girls in rural secondary schools. Elita's work and research interests focus on the lived experiences of adolescents on the margin (such as adolescents with albinism, adolescent mothers and girls in chid marriage in Malawi). She has applied participatory approaches for exploring adolescent's sense of belonging, social connectedness and identity. Elita’s areas of expertise expand to girls’ education, youth at risk, and intra-household power dynamics.

Emily Katz

Associate Professor of Ancient Greek Philosophy, Michigan State University

Associate Professor of Ancient Greek Philosophy, Michigan State University My primary research interests are ancient Greek mathematics and metaphysics (especially Aristotle’s metaphysics, natural science, and philosophy of mathematics), as well as the question of how much we can understand about Aristotle’s predecessors and contemporaries from his discussions of their views. I am available to work with incoming graduate students as a committee member and/or teaching mentor.