Research officer, UNSW Sydney Jemma attained her Bachelor of Psychology (Honours) in 2018 and worked on a PhD on the cognitive neuroscience of mind wandering for a few years before taking a break from research to focus on her gender affirmation journey. She is currently employed as a Project Officer for Northern Sydney Local Health District implementing the NSW Health LGBTIQ+ Strategy. She is also a research officer at UNSW publishing research on a Personalised-Autonomous Model of English-Language learning for International Students.
Reader in Anthropology and Ethnomusicology, Queen's University Belfast John completed his doctorate at the London School of Economics on the topic of depopulation and social change in Japanese mountain villages. Before coming to Queen's, he held the posts of Junior Research Fellow in Modern Japanese Studies at Wadham College Oxford (1992-1995) and Research Fellow at the International Institute for Asian Studies, University of Leiden (1996-1999). He has undertaken extensive field research in rural Japan on a range of topics, including migration, forestry, farming, and tourism, on which he has published widely. His main area of research is human-animal relations, including hunting, wildlife pests, the use of animals in tourism, and human-animal interactions. His most recent field research has been on Japanese monkey parks as sites of primatology and tourism.
Senior Lecturer in Anthropology, University of Exeter I am anthropologist (DPhil Oxford) of human-animal interactions. For nearly a decade, much of my work has been dedicated to examining the place of dogs and cats in South Korean urban society and culture, a particularly complex and sensitive research topic that touches on mutliple social injustices (animal, gender and racial injustice), cultural relativism and imperialism, the use of animals in national identity rhetoric, the legitimacy of food taboos, speciesism, the question of violence within the debates between welfarist and abolitionist approaches to human-animal interactions, racialisation, and ontological perfusion in urban marketplaces.
Lecturer in Ecosystem Science and Policy, University of Miami Julia Wester is a lecturer and Associate Director of the undergraduate program in Ecosystem Science and Policy. She completed her master’s at Oxford in conservation biology and management before working on state policy as a legislative aide in the Florida Senate. She then completed her Ph.D. at the Abess Center studying how emotions and norms shape attitudes toward water recycling and related policy development. She has collaborated on projects funded by the Save Our Seas Foundation and National Geographic Explorer to study human-wildlife interactions in south Florida and the southern Caribbean. Her current research focuses on stakeholder engagement and local policy, mostly around Miami and Biscayne Bay.
Professor of Criminal Law, University of Birmingham Professor John Child specialises in criminal law, doctrine and theory, and the relationship between criminal law and neuroscience. John co-authors two leading criminal law textbooks: Simester and Sullivan’s Criminal Law and Smith, Hogan and Ormerod’s Essentials of Criminal Law. John is also the founder and co-Director of the Criminal Law Reform Now Network. Launched in 2017, its mission is to facilitate collaboration between academics and other legal experts to gather and disseminate comprehensible proposals for criminal law reform to the wider community. We include members of the public and mainstream media as well as legal professionals, police, policymakers and politicians. Our proposals might require legislation but we do not restrict ourselves to such projects. Reforms which public bodies such as the Home Office, Police or CPS can bring about by internal policies interest us, as do reforms which require the support of some of the judiciary, bearing in mind the proper judicial constraints on law making. We are ready to consult with and make suggestions to anyone who has the power to bring about reform.
Researcher in Psychoneuroimmunology, Stockholm University I am a Psychoneuroimmunologist expert in sickness behavior in humans. I aim at better understanding how inflammation influences behavior and what factors underlie the inter-individual differences in the vulnerability to the behavioral effects of cytokines. My work includes basic science research using clinical and experimental models in humans, which characterize in details the overt and subjective behavioral changes induced by inflammation in humans, investigate the adaptive relevance of sickness behavior, analyze the psychological and biological factors that interact with cytokines to affect the brain and behavior, and the underlying mechanisms. My research highlights the complex motivational changes that occur during inflammation by demonstrating that sickness behavior is not only driven by immune signals, but that top-down processes can shape the behavioral effects of pro-inflammatory cytokines. I also investigate how overt changes in behavior during inflammatory sickness affect the relationship with others and the care one receives, and how this in turn modulates health outcomes. I am part of the steering committee and webmaster of the newly developed European Psychoneuroimmunology Network (https://pnieurope.se). I have received the PNIRS Ader New Investigator Award 2021. This prestigious award is presented to an outstanding new research scientist who has made exciting basic science or clinical contributions to the field of Psychoneuroimmunology.
