Professor of Political Science, Auburn University John C. Morris is a professor in the Department of Political Science at Auburn University. Dr. Morris teaches courses in collaboration, public policy, organization theory, privatization, and policy evaluation in both the Master of Public Administration program and PhD in Public Administration and Public Policy programs. He has won numerous teaching awards over the course of his career. He also serves on the editorial boards of two journals, has served on the program committee for three national conferences, and is a member of several professional organizations and honoraries. His research interests include collaboration, public-private partnerships, water policy, federalism, and organization theory. He has published in journals such as Public Administration Review, Policy Studies Journal, the Journal of Politics, the American Review of Public Administration, Publius, Voluntas, Politics and Policy, State and Local Government Review, and Environmental Politics, among others. To date he has published twelve books, over 120 scholarly articles and book chapters, and delivered more than one hundred conference papers.
Associate Professor of Political Science, Auburn University Jonathan Fisk is a member of the MPA faculty and teaches graduate courses on public personnel management, leadership, and federalism. He also teaches undergraduate public administration courses. He previously worked as a research associate for the League of Kansas Municipalities and advised a state lawmaker in Colorado about state-local relations relative to fracking’s land-use issues.
Researcher, The University of Queensland I am a trained historian and anthropologist who carries out applied research on how indigenous communities are affected by developments such as conservation, infrastructure building, resource extraction and climate change. I have published on these topics in high impact factor journals (including edited books published by Springer and Routledge). My research has obtained funding from several organizations, individuals, government departments and universities.
Director of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Research Office, University of Sydney I am a Ngarigu woman of the Snowy Mountains in Southern New South Wales, Australia. I have studied widely, in Australia, Japan and Mexico particularly in the fields of linguistics, anthropology, visual arts, education, archaeology and language learning. I have a BAHons(1st) in anthropology from the University of Sydney. My PhD is in linguistics from the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University. I have a Graduate Diploma in Secondary Education from the University of Canberra. I am now research Professor at the University of Sydney where I work with Professor Shane Houston, the Deputy Vice Chancellor, Indigenous Strategy and Services. In my role I support Indigenous researchers and research projects across the University, with other Australuan universities and internationally to get the best possible research outcomes for Indigenous peoples worldwide.
Professor, School of Journalism and Communication, Carleton University Josh Greenberg is Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. His primary research expertise is health risk communication. His most recent book, a co-edited collection, is Communication and Health: Media, Marketing and Risk (Palgrave, 2022). Greenberg also researches vinyl culture and the vinyl economy, and is writing a book about record stores in Canada.
Professor of Psychology, UNSW Sydney Professor James McAuley is a psychologist in the School of Health Sciences. He completed his PhD at Brunel University UK in 2002 and took a post-doctoral position at the University of Sydney in 2004 and then a senior post-doctoral position at the George Institute for Global Health in 2008. He moved to NeuRA in 2010 and established the Centre for Pain IMPACT and was appointed to the department of Exercise Physiology, School of Medical Sciences in 2017. James’ research combines experimental, clinical and translational methods to develop and test new interventions to manage low back pain. James has published >200 articles and holds over >$10M in research funding. He is regularly invited to give talks at conferences and scientific meetings. James has supervised 18 PhD students and mentored 4 postdocs. James is the chair of the back pain group of SPHERE MSK and is a member of the Scientific Advisory Group (SAG) for the Australian and New Zealand Musculoskeletal Clinical Trials Network (ANZMUSC). In 2015 James founded the NSW network for pain PhD students/ECRs (SPRiNG). James has supervised 18 PhD students and mentored 4 postdocs.
