Visiting Fellow, Research School of Humanities and the Arts , Australian National University Isa holds a PhD from the Australian National University (ANU). Her research critically engages with representations of the horse in national identity narratives, examining the role of this animal in the Australian national imagination. She has published substantially in this area and is currently working on a book. Isa also holds a Master of Arts (Museum Studies) and has spent over 15 years working with material and cultural heritage, both in Australia and internationally. She has worked across a range of areas, from exhibition development to collection management, and has also lectured in museology at ANU.
PhD Candidate, Flinders University Isabella is PhD Candidate at Flinders University in conservation genomics and evolutionary ecology. She specialises in marine wildlife genomes, particularly cetaceans.
PhD Student in History, University of British Columbia Isabelle Avakumovic-Pointon works for the PROUD Project as a Research Assistant. She is PhD student in the Department of History at the University of British Columbia (UBC) researching disability history. She has an MA in European and Russian Affairs from the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies in the Munk School at the University of Toronto. Isabelle also has a BA in Honours history from UBC and a Bachelors from the Institut d'études politiques de Paris. Isabelle has been a research assistant for the PROUD Project at the University of Toronto Scarborough since 2021.
PhD candidate in English, University of Sheffield Current University of Sheffield PhD candidate in the school of English, supervised by Professor Adam Piette. Researching British antinuclear poetry since 1960. MA Literature, Culture, Media from the University of Lund, Sweden (2019). BA in English, University of York (2017).
Lecturer, Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg Dr Isa Elegbede has interdisciplinary experience and background in marine and coastal resources. He is interested in applying a holistic sustainability approach to environmental issues and their impact on resources. He has a PhD in environmental sciences (specialisation marine sustainability and blue economy) from the Brandenburg University of Technology, Cottbus-Senftenberg, Germany. His PhD research investigated the impact of voluntary sustainability standards in marine industrial fisheries, a case study with the Nigerian industrial marine fisheries. He has a bachelor's degree in fisheries from the Lagos State University and a master's degree in marine sciences (marine pollution and management) from the University of Lagos. He is a visiting scholar with the Dalhousie University in Canada and a fellow of the Ocean Frontier Institute and Robin Rigby Trust. Also a diaspora expert with the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH/ Centre for International Migration and Development.
Associate Professor in Physics, University of Otago Associate Professor Inga Smith is based in the Department of Physics at the University of Otago. Inga researches and lectures in climate change related topics: Antarctic sea ice; greenhouse gas emissions from international transport; climate change physics; fluids and thermodynamics. She works on research projects funded by the Marsden Fund, Deep South National Science Challenge, and the Antarctic Science Platform. Inga is on the World Climate Research Programme's CLIVAR (oceans and climate) Scientific Steering Group, and she is co-director of He Kaupapa Hononga: Otago's Climate Change Network.
