Associate Professor, History of Modern Architecture, University of Toronto I am an award-winning architectural historian and an associate professor at the University of Toronto. I’ve written for the Globe and Mail, the National Post, Aeon, Triple Canopy, Frieze, and Log, and I’ve been an architecture commentator on podcasts, radio shows, and CBC national television news. In my public writing and media appearances, I help people see how architecture is entangled with money, power, and technology, but is also a distinct cultural practice with its own forms of knowledge and artistry.
Research Fellow, University of the West of England Dr Kat Schneider (she/her) is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Appearance Research (CAR) at the University of the West of England. She has a PhD in Sport & Exercise Psychology from Liverpool John Moores University, as well as a master’s in Psychology and a bachelor’s in Sports Science with Management from Loughborough University. In her current role at CAR, she is primarily involved in developing and evaluating body image interventions for coaches and girls in sport, with the goal to create safe, inclusive, accepting, and body positive sport environments for girls around the world. Kat also works across multiple projects aimed at improving body image among different populations and in various contexts, such as in sport, education, and digital media environments. Kat is the principal investigator on a project exploring weight bias and weight stigma among fitness professionals, with the overarching aim to create size and body inclusive fitness spaces. This research will explore fitness professionals’ willingness to engage in weight bias interventions and features that will lead to intervention uptake, completion, and maintenance of outcomes, with the long-term goal to develop and evaluate an anti-weight bias intervention for fitness professionals. Aside from her current role, Kat is also involved in the Crisis and Resilience Expertise (CaRE) group at Edgehill University, where she has conducted multiple systematic reviews on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and other global crises on mental health and well-being outcomes, including the effect of pandemics on the psychological well-being of healthcare workers, the effect of inequality on mental health disparities during the COVID-19 outbreak, and the impact of national and international financial crises on population-level mental health and well-being outcomes.
Professorial Research Fellow, School of the Environment, The University of Queensland Jozef Syktus is the Director of the University of Queensland and Department of Environment and Science (DES) collaborative research program on regional climate projection. He has over 30 years of experience of climate modelling and climate research. His has completed research with using global and regional climate model to investigate paleo-climate, land use change, drought, heatwaves, seasonal forecasting, and global and regional climate change projections. Jozef was a Science leader of projects contributing the CSIRO Mk3.6 climate model simulations to the CMIP5 archive, and dynamical downscaling of CMIP5 and CMIP6 models for Australia. At DES he was the Science Leader of the project delivering the regional climate projections for Queensland (https://www.longpaddock.qld.gov.au/qld-future-climate/dashboard/ ).
Ph.D candidate, Uppsala University * B.A. - Vocal Performance (Westminster Choir College) * M.A - Musicology (University of Bristol) - "A Contemporary Analysis of “Musical Russianness” as evidenced in Husky’s Album “Hoshkhonog” (2020)" * Ph.D. - Uppsala University - [Theme: Russian rap during the 1990s and the process of Post-Soviet identity creation]
Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Deakin University Jordan is an Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Deakin Business School at Deakin University and is a member of the Centre for Sport Research. Jordan's research focuses on advancing the knowledge and practice of how organisations can strategically leverage mega events to create social and sustainable impacts for individuals, organisations, and society. His research has helped shape national policies around mega event bidding and social value for communities. Jordan has collaborated with various community, state/province, national, international, and professional sport organisations in Oceania, North America, and Europe, such as Sport Canada, Football Australia, and FIFA. Currently, Jordan is leading a collaborative project with the Victoria Office for Women in Sport and Recreation to advance women and girls' sport leadership in community sport clubs. He is also leading a collaborative project with FIFA, Football Australia, and New Zealand Football investigating the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup co-hosting, leveraging strategy, and social impacts.
Andrology Fellow, Hudson Institute Jing is the Andrology Fellow at Hudson Institute/Monash Health in 2023, where he is completing the final year of his Endocrinology training. As part of this role, he looks after men referred for testosterone deficiency as well as those with prostate cancer on androgen deprivation therapy. He is also involved in assessing male infertility and trans health. He has a Bachelor of Medicine/Bachelor of Surgery at Monash University, and a Masters of Clinical Epidemiology at the University of Sydney.
