Senior Lecturer in Aviation, Griffith University Dr Guido Carim Junior is an aviation safety expert with a unique background built upon a variety of experiences, including safety investigator, human factors advisor, safety data analyst, safety ethnographer, airline pilot, manager, researcher, educator, speaker, mentor, and consultant. He is currently a senior lecturer at Griffith Aviation, Griffith University, where he leads a cohesive team of professionals responsible for the Master of Aviation Management. As a research member at the Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research and the Institute of Integrated and Intelligent Systems, Griffith University, he conducts research in the application of the New View into Safety Management Systems, the development of new safety management practices, the development of technological tools to enhance pilot’s decision-making capabilities and the integration of low-cost desktop simulator into the ab initio pilot training to make it more affordable. In his previous job as an Embraer 190/95 pilot and the head of the Human Factors Department at Azul Airlines, he was responsible for implementing the Line Operations Safety Audit, the Fatigue Risk Management System and for reviewing the Cockpit Resource Management program.
Doctorante en psychoéducation, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (UQTR) Je suis doctorante en psychoéducation à l'Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières depuis 2022 et active dans le monde scientifique depuis 2019. J'ai acquis mon expertise en sommeil dans le cadre de ma maîtrise et depuis l'an dernier, j'ai un grand intérêt pour la vulgarisation scientifique. Étant également psychoéducatrice spécialisée en petite enfance depuis 2022, cette profession me garde au fait des plus récents sujets cliniques, nourrissant alors mon désir de redonner à la population québécoise par le biais de la vulgarisation de contenus scientifiques.
Independent Consultant and Visiting Lecturer, UNSW Sydney Gareth owns Risk Insight Consulting, and has previously held various full-time senior risk roles in the international engineering and construction sector. He focuses on assisting clients in various industries around the world to maximise and transform their performance with corporate, operational and project risk management and the application of practical organisational resilience. Gareth is closely involved with Risk and Engineering Institutes in Australia and the UK, and is a visiting lecturer at the University of New South Wales (UNSW). He regularly writes about the management of risk for associations and publications and speaks at international conferences on risk and project management.
Director Suicide and Mental Health Research Group University of Otago Wellington, University of Otago I am a social scientist with training in epidemiology and public health. I work at University of Otago Wellington and, as Manager of Evaluation and Research for Allen and Clarke. For the past 20+ years I have undertaken quantitative, qualitative, mixed methods and transdisciplinary research on critical social and public health issues documented in 50+ peer reviewed publications and 20+ research reports. My work has included qualitative interview-based research, media and interest group analyses, suicide prevention, analyses of multiple government agency datasets and files, panel surveys, longitudinal cohort studies, gender and cultural analyses. I have been on the editorial board of several scientific journals including being guest editor for a special issue on Innovations in Architecture for Mental Health (IJERPH) and I have served on the NZ National Health and Disability Ethics Committee. I also continue to supervise PhD students in mental health research at the University of Otago. Recent research has focused on acute mental health care based on a 4-year transdisciplinary research project into the architectural, social, political and therapeutic dimensions of acute mental health facilities in New Zealand.
Research Fellow in Economics, University of Leeds Dr Gissell Huaccha is a dynamic research fellow in economics. Her research agenda lies at the intersection of regional and urban economics, with particular interest in the interplay between regional spatial structure, productivity, business resilience, and regional development. She is currently working on unravelling the effects of energy efficiency issues on either alleviating or exacerbating regional disparities across the UK.
