Senior lecturer, Macquarie University Holly Doel-Mackaway is an academic at the Macquarie University Law School. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on international human rights law with a particular focus on children and young people. Her 2022 book 'Indigenous Children's Right to Participate in Law and Policy Development' (Routledge) presents a model for reforming and developing Indigenous related legislation and policy in Australia and internationally. The model provides guidance about how to seek, listen to and respond to the voices of Indigenous children and young people. Before becoming an academic Holly worked as a lawyer across more than 20 countries for the United Nations and various international non-government organisations providing specialised advice on international children’s rights law. She has held senior legal and managerial positions with a range of child focused agencies including UNICEF, Save the Children and the NSW Department of Community Services. Holly also operates a child rights consulting practice providing children's rights research, training, legislative and policy advice nationally and internationally on matters relating to child protection, girls’ rights, the commercial sexual exploitation of children, children engaged in armed conflict and child rights-based approaches to research and development. Prior to becoming a lawyer Holly worked as a social worker with women and children who had experienced domestic violence and sexual abuse.
Provost and Vice Principal of Heriot-Watt University in Dubai, Heriot-Watt University Professor Dame Heather J. McGregor is the Provost and Vice Principal of Heriot-Watt University Dubai. Professor McGregor has a PhD from the University of Hong Kong in Structured Finance and is an experienced writer and broadcaster, including writing for the Financial Times for 17 years under the pseudonym 'Mrs Moneypenny'. She is also the founder of the Taylor Bennett Foundation, which works to promote diversity in the communications industry, and a founding member of the steering committee of the 30% Club, which is working to raise the representation of women at senior levels within the U.K.’s publicly listed companies. Professor McGregor is a non-executive director of two public companies, and the author of eight books, including Careers Advice for Ambitious Women (Penguin, 2012). In 2009 Professor McGregor received an Honorary Degree from the University of East London for her work to support diversity in employment. Professor McGregor was made a Dame Commander of the British Empire for her services to diversity and employment in the New Year Honours List 2023. In 2021 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
Research Associate, Charles Darwin University My research focuses on the processes that are causing the widespread decline of native mammals across the tropical savannas of northern Australia, and novel approaches to land management that may be able to slow, and even reverse, their decline.
Lecturer, Universitas Gadjah Mada and Ph.D. Cancidate, University of Debrecen Haekal Al Asyari is a lecturer of International Law, at the Law School of Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia. He is also currently a PhD student at the Law Faculty of the University of Debrecen, Hungary.
Senior Beamline Scientist - Powder Diffraction, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation Helen is a beamline scientist at the Australian Synchrotron. She supports users from many fields of science to carry out experiments to investigate the structure of materials. Helen is a Planetary Geologist by training. She started her research career by investigating how the crystal structure of planetary materials can influence the geology that we see on the surface of icy moons in the outer Solar System. Subsequently, she investigated how minerals grow on Mars with CSIRO before joining the Synchrotron. In the last few years Helen has been able to diversify her research. This has included collecting meteorites in the Nullarbor and developing new analysis methods using the synchrotron to unlock the secrets of the early solar system, as well as helping identify pigments in some of the oldest Aboriginal rock art.
Associate Professor of Public Health, UMass Lowell Associate Professor Thind has degrees in clinical medicine and public health. Her research interests include physical activity and yoga interventions for chronic disease prevention and control. She has expertise in designing and implementing randomized controlled trials. She has been involved in various funded research projects including a NIH/NCCIH-funded project to examine the feasibility of yoga for adults with type 2 diabetes.
