Researcher, Centre for Work, Organisation and Wellbeing, Griffith University I have recently completed my Ph.D where I investigated the impact of shift work on health and well-being. My research focus is primarily fatigue and the optimal ways to recover both at work and during home time. My work background is a laboratory scientist bringing a unique perspective to my social science research.
Lecturer and PhD student, RMIT University Jesse Boylan is an artist and writer living on Dja Dja Wurrung country in Central Victoria. They teach research-based approaches to documentary as a sessional lecturer within the School of Art at RMIT, and they are a PhD candidate researching the role of art in addressing slow climate emergencies and global atmospheric change. They have published several recent essays and articles and worked briefly as a journalist for the Inter Press Service in East Africa and Asia-Pacific, 2009-2010.
Senior Teaching Fellow in Economics, Aston University National Teaching Fellow of Advance Higher Education and a member of the Executive Group of the Economics Network. Co-author of the leading UK textbooks ‘Economics’ and the ‘Economics for Business’. Research on innovative teaching, learning and assessment has been widely published in academic journals Co-editor of the recent book ‘Games, Simulations and Playful Learning in Business Education’.
Professor of Sustainable Beef and Sheep Production, Harper Adams University Professor Capper has over 17 years of experience in assessing the environmental impacts and sustainability of livestock production systems through whole-system holistic models based on cattle performance and nutritional principles. She has a PhD in ruminant nutrition and behaviour and specific expertise in beef population dynamics, nutrition, greenhouse gas emissions, resource use, and whole-system environmental sustainability. Prof. Capper's research focuses on modeling the sustainability of livestock production systems, specifically beef, sheep and dairy with current projects relating to the factors influencing greenhouse gas emissions, economic viability and whole system sustainability of UK beef and sheep operations; and interactions between dairy and beef cattle productivity on the sustainability of the combined UK cattle population. Prof. Capper is a liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Butchers and Treasurer of the National Beef Association. She is also Chair of the Route Panel for Agriculture, Environment and Animal Care and Vice-Chair of the Green Apprenticeships Advisory Panel at the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education.
PhD Candidate in Psychology, University of Sussex I am currently a Psychology PhD student at the University of Sussex. I have a strong interest in domestic animal cognition and ethology, specifically in domestic cats, and have an interest in the scientific methodologies that we use to carry out species-specific experimental research.