Professor of Performance and Visual Culture, Head of School of Art and Design, UNSW Sydney PHD, Macquarie University Ba Hons Macquarie and University medalist in Literature. Member of the Australian Research Council’s College of Experts (2013-2015). From 2007-2011, President of PSi (Performance Studies international)—the international professional association of performance studies scholars.
Associate Professor, UNSW Sydney Emma A. Jane - formerly published as Emma Tom - is an Associate Professor at UNSW Sydney. She researches the social implications of emerging technologies using complexity theory frameworks and transdisciplinary methods to interrogate the issues and consider proposed interventions. She has presented the findings of her research to the Australian Human Rights Commission, the Australian government's Workplace Gender Equality Agency, and the Festival of Dangerous Ideas at the Sydney Opera House. Prior to her career in academia, Dr Jane spent nearly 25 years working in the print, broadcast, and electronic media. Over the course of her working life, she has received multiple awards and prizes for her scholarly work, her journalism, and her fiction. Her 11th book, Diagnosis Normal, is a hybrid memoir published by Penguin Random House in 2022. In her spare time, she enjoys coding with AI and using OpenAI's DALL·E 2 to generate images of exuberant axolotls on their way to queer discos.
Ph.D. Student in Educational Theory and Policy and Demography, Penn State Research interests are early childhood education, child development, and socio-demographic inequality of educational outcomes.
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Climate Science, University of Arizona Ellie Broadman is a climate scientist who specializes in reconstructing past climate and environmental change using lake sediments, tree rings, and variety of field, laboratory, and data analytical methods. She is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Spatio-Temporal Interactions between Climate & Ecosystems Lab and the Laboratory of Tree Ring Research at the University of Arizona in Tucson.
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law, Drake University Erin Lain is a professor of law at Drake University and a triple alumna of the college. Her research focuses on legal education, academic success, and the bar exam. In addition to working at Drake University, Lain interned for federal magistrate Judge Celeste Bremer, directed the Council on Legal Educational Opportunity's (CLEO) Summer Institute, and taught at Simpson College. Some of her notable publications include "Experiences of Academically Dismissed Black and Latino/a Law Students: Stereotype Threat, Fight or Flight Coping Mechanisms, Isolation and Feelings of Systemic Betrayal" and "Emotional Intelligence: A Valuable Tool For Traditional And Non-Traditional Leaders." Lain is a recipient of the Best Qualitative Research Poster Award (from the Iowa Educational Research and Evaluation Association Annual Conference) and the True Blue Award for Excellence in Learning, Integrity, and Citizenship.
PhD Candidate in Soil Ecology, University of Sheffield I am currently a PhD Researcher based at The University of Sheffield and supervised by Professor Katie Field, Professor Urwin (University of Leeds) and Professor Tim Daniell. My work is focused around understanding the role of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal networks in modulating symbioses between competing root symbionts.
