Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Mount Royal University Dr. Joanne Park is a clinical psychologist and assistant professor at Mount Royal University, in Calgary, Alberta. She completed her PhD from the University of British Columbia, and her predoctoral residency at IWK Health in Halifax. Her research focuses on understanding determinants of parenting, such as parental executive functions, psychopathology, and stress. The goal of her research is to identify targets for parenting interventions, and to ultimately improve parent-child relationships and child mental health. Her research has been funded by a CIHR Postdoctoral Fellowship. Clinically, Dr. Park works primarily with children, adolescents and their families and provides Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Behavioural Therapy to address anxiety, selective mutism, OCD, depression, and difficulties with emotion regulation, as well as parent-focused behavioural treatments for children with ADHD and behavioural issues. She also provides psycho-educational assessments for children and adolescents and has received specialized training in Dialectical Behaviour Therapy for both adolescents and adults.
Professor of Korean Linguistics, University of Oxford Jieun Kiaer is the YBM-KF Professor of Korean Linguistics at the University of Oxford’s Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Faculty. Her research encompasses Asian linguistics, focusing on marginalized languages, and multimodal linguistics, including gesture studies. She also investigates the impact of AI on linguistic justice and diversity, with a specific emphasis on minoritized and under-resourced languages. As a linguist, pragmatist, and specialist in Asian studies, Professor Kiaer has published extensively in theoretical and applied linguistics as well as translation studies. Her work transcends traditional Western, text-centric approaches to language, embracing non-European and multi-modal perspectives to offer a more nuanced understanding of human communication. Her recent publications include Lessons from a Translingual Romance (Palgrave Macmillian 2023) Emoji Speak (Bloomsbury, 2023 June) and The Future of Syntax (Bloomsbury, 2023).
Lecturer in Horology, Birmingham City University I trained in horology in 2008 until 2011. I worked within industry until I took the role of lecturer in Horology at BCU in 2022. Although I am trained on modern watches I always gravity towards the history and the invention, that made me want to take on the role as lecturer.
Co-Director of the Centre for Pilgrimage Studies, University of York John is the Co-Director of the Centre for Pilgrimage Studies at the University. His work currently focuses on the relationship between cathedrals, saints’ cults and pilgrimage from the medieval period to the present day. He first came to York in 2014 as a Research Assistant on the AHRC-funded ‘Pilgrimage and England’s Cathedrals: Past and Present’ project. Following that he was a researcher on projects looking variously at the influence of Thomas Becket’s cult in Canterbury and London, and at exploring ways in which understanding historic uses of space could help with visitor engagement in contemporary churches. He was a key member of the planning and organisation committees for ‘Becket 2020’, the anniversary commemorations of Thomas Becket’s birth, death and translation. His work on the digital reconstructions of Thomas Becket’s medieval shrine in Canterbury Cathedral, produced by the Centre for the Study of Christianity and Culture at the University, received international media coverage in 2020. He has made several appearances on the BBC and the Smithsonian Channel discussing various aspects of his work on pilgrimage and medieval history.
Lecturer, Creative Unit, UniSA, University of South Australia I work on contemporary literature (especially visual narratives such as animated documentaries and comics) that engages with politics. I have a PhD in cultural and literary studies, an MA in philosophy and literarure, an Honours in literatures in English and a BA majoring in philosophy and English literature. I am a scholar and lecturer at the University of South Australia in the field of contemporary literature and visual culture. My work is about the unique role that arts and aesthetics plays in helping us think through intractable problems in contemporary times because of the ways in which different art forms help us capture what lies beyond language and help us envision situations in which experience may not be immediately visible. This led me to study contemporary interdisciplinary literature (including comics and films) in order to come to grips with problems concerning the representation of marginal groups and stigmatised experiences. My interdisciplinary, African training as well as living and working in contested states with violent histories (such as apartheid South Africa, North Cyprus and Australia) drive my continued engagement with marginalisation and decolonisation.
Adjunct assistant professor, Institute of Education Sciences, Universidad de O’Higgins (Chile) His research seeks to understand reasoning based on analogies and the role of relational processing in learning. Attracted by the field of exact sciences, he studied Computer Engineering and Mathematical Engineering where he obtained recognition as one of the best students of his career. In his doctoral thesis he built a mathematical model that describes a cognitive mechanism called "analogy." This mechanism is used by the human mind to make comparisons between two entities in a very flexible way. His current research is aimed at the application of this mechanism to the development of technology in the educational area.
