Associate Professor in General Practice, University of Otago I studied medicine at Otago University, then completed my Masters degree in General Practice in 2000. I work in clinical practice part-time, and have taught both undergraduate and medical students and postgraduate doctors at Otago Medical School since 1996. I am the co-author of Wilson H, Cunningham W. Being a Doctor: Understanding Medical Practice, OUP, Dunedin, 2013, an innovative textbook of medicine for general practitioners and other doctors. My research interests include (bio)medically unexplained symptoms, reflective practice, methods of professional maintenance and professional identity formation.
Research Fellow, Australian Centre for Precision Health, University of South Australia Hilary Bowman-Smart is a Research Fellow at the Australian Centre for Precision Health. She commenced her role in 2023. She previously held a position as Researcher in the Ethics of Prenatal Genetics and Genomics at the University of Oxford between 2021 and 2023. In this role, she worked on a project comparing the implementation of non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) in England, France and Germany, with her research conducted in both English and German. She has also been a visiting fellow at the University of Augsburg, and holds honorary positions at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute and Monash University. Hilary is an empirical bioethicist with a background in both genetics and philosophy. She was awarded her PhD by the University of Melbourne in 2022, receiving the Dean's Award for Excellence in Graduate Research. Her research approach involves ethical analysis that is informed by various types of empirical research, such as surveys, statistical analysis, and qualitative interview studies. Her areas of focus are reproductive ethics, genomics, and the philosophy of health and disease.
Professor, Ted Rogers School of Retail Management, Toronto Metropolitan University Dr. Hong Yu is a Professor of Retail Management at the Ted Rogers School of Management, Toronto Metropolitan University. With expertise in engineering, design, and business, her research focuses on management strategies for product, service, and customer experience transformations. Currently, she studies the shopping experiences of older customers to improve product innovation, inclusive retail environments, and service design. Dr. Yu has taught MBA and Master of Science in Management (MScM) programs, supervised over 70 PhD, MScM, and MBA students, completed 18 funded research projects, and published an open etextbook and over 50 peer-reviewed papers, and won awards for her research and educational programs in Europe and the U.S.
Clinical Fellow of Psychology, UCL Hestia is a Clinical Research Fellow based in the Department of Clinical Educational and Health Psychology (CEHP), with teaching and course tutor duties on the Doctorate of Clinical Psychology (DClinPsy) training programme. Alongside this, she works clinically within a CAMHS disability service and is working towards completing a PhD aimed at better understanding mood and reward dynamics underpinning experiences of mood disturbances using a computational fMRI approach.
Professor of Historical Geography, University of Portsmouth Professor of Historical Geography at the University of Portsmouth. Principal creator of the Great Britain Historical GIS, and the web site "A Vision of Britain through Time". Research interests include the history of the North-South divide in Britain, Data models for gazetteers and geospatial ontologies, Long-run impacts of locality characteristics on health inequalities and the role of travellers in the development of political life.
Doctoral Student, Clinical Psychology, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa Hannah is a PhD student in the Clinical Psychology program at the University of Ottawa, where she is a member of the Early Lab and is under the supervision of Dr. Racine. She holds an Honours Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of Ottawa, a Master of Arts in Experimental Psychology from Brock University, and an Honours Diploma in Child and Youth Counselling from Humber College. Hannah’s research focuses on the impact of maternal trauma on child development, parenting, attachment, and adverse childhood experiences.
