Research Fellow, Monash University Fabian has a PhD in Sociology from Monash University. His thesis explored the governance of academic workers in Australian universities and the career narratives that they develop through their work. He has published on the political economy of higher education, work/life balance in academia and the culture of creative workers. He has also conducted research into the broader production of culture and heritage in Melbourne, Australia. He is currently a member of The Australian Sociological Association (TASA) and co-convenor of the Work, Labour & Economy Thematic Group.
Professor of Epidemiology, Tufts University Dr. Fang Fang Zhang is a nutritional epidemiologist with expertise in assessing dietary intake patterns, trends, and disparities in the population, and conducting observational studies and clinical trials to investigate the role of nutrition in cancer prevention and control. She has led pioneering work that assessed dietary intake in adult survivors of childhood cancer and its associations with treatment exposure, chronic health conditions, and quality of life. Following her study that identified adult cancer survivors in the US have poor diet quality, she builds partnerships with key stakeholders in learning about the complex web of factors that influence the dietary intake patterns of cancer survivors. Dr. Zhang is committed to translating scientific evidence into programs, practices, and policies. She has developed a web-based intervention program that helps parents transition family into healthy eating soon after the child completes active cancer treatment, and is working on food is medicine interventions that integrate food and nutrition into oncology care through prescription of medically tailored meals and nutrition counseling for vulnerable patients with lung cancer. Dr. Zhang’s research interests also include quantifying preventable cancer burden associated with suboptimal diet, assessing the cost-effectiveness of population strategies to improve diet and reduce cancer burden and disparities in the US, and evaluating the health, environmental, economic, and social impact of sustainable diet. Dr. Zhang’s work has been highlighted in the NIH Director’s Blog and NIH Research Matters. Dr. Zhang received her PhD with distinction in Epidemiology from Columbia University and MD from Fudan University Shanghai Medical College. She is a recipient of the Eileen O'Neil Citation for Excellence in Teaching and an inaugural recipient of the Miriam E. Nelson Tisch Faculty Fellow from Tufts University.
PhD Candidate, Politics and International Security, University of Waikato I obtained my Bachelors degree in Political Science (First Class Hons) from the University of Nigeria. I subsequently obtained my Masters Degree (Terrorism, Intelligence and Security Studies) at the University of Salford in the United Kingdom and I am currently a PhD Candidate (International Relations and Security Studies), University of Waikato. I have been a Sessional Assistant at the University of Waikato (taking modules in International Relations and International Security). I also functioned in this capacity at the University of Salford in the UK. After my Msc, I was an Assistant Lecturer of International Relations at the Federal University Lafia briefly for two years. Prior to this, I was a Sessional Assistant at the University of Calabar and University of Nigeria respectively.
Professor, Human and Behavioural Sciences, Bangor University Fay Short is a Professor in the School of Human and Behavioural Sciences at Bangor University and a Chartered Psychologist with the British Psychological Society. She is also a qualified therapist and a registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. Having previously worked as Director of Teaching and Learning for the College of Human Sciences, her current professional roles include Course Director for the MSc in Counselling and Associate Pro-Vice Chancellor for Employability at Bangor University. After the completion of her award-winning PhD in body representation, Fay began to expand her research interests to explore the interaction between psychotherapy and education. She has completed two PGCert qualifications in teaching and a Masters in Education Studies focusing on the applications of psychotherapy in learning environments, alongside additional TEFL and Learning Coach training. She is a member of the Bangor Academy of Teaching Fellows and a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and her teaching excellence has been recognised in a highly prestigious National Teaching Fellowship award. In her therapeutic work, Fay is an accredited hypnotherapist, NLP practitioner, and advanced practitioner of REBT, and she has published a textbook exploring Core Approaches in Counselling and Psychotherapy. Alongside this work, Fay supports academics and professionals across different fields following her training in Executive Coaching and Mentoring. She has also worked in the field of law following her Masters in Law and Criminology, and her psychology of abuse training has been delivered to crime investigators and police officers across the UK.
Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology, Western Sydney University I am a researcher, educator, and clinical psychologist focussed on improving child and family wellbeing. I have completed a PhD in Psychology, Master of Clinical Psychology, Bachelor of Arts - Psychology (Hons 1), and Bachelor of Business Administration.
Assistant Professor, Critical Disability Studies, Carleton University I am a critical disability studies scholar who draws on feminist new materialism to examine disabled and mad students' experiences in higher education. My scholarly contributions lie at the theoretical and pedagogical intersections of disability, mad, and fat studies and include socio-historical examinations that surface the interconnections of colonialism, racism, ableism, sanism, and queer- and transphobia. I have published scholarly articles on disability-related issues in higher education, on Canadian disability history, and on community-based learning. I am an assistant professor at the Pauline Jewett Institute of Women's and Gender Studies at Carleton University. I conduct this research diversely-positioned as a disabled, fat, POC, immigrant and settler who is living, working and creating on the ancestral and traditional territories of the Algonquin nation.
