Clinical Associate Lecturer, Northern Clinical School and Lecturer, Internal Medicine. Rural Clinical School (Northern Rivers), University of Sydney Dr Joe (Joseph) Duncan is Clinical Associate Lecturer, Northern Clinical School, and Lecturer, Internal Medicine, Rural Clinical School (Northern Rivers), University of Sydney. Dr Duncan is a specialist respiratory and sleep physician, and has a particular interest in severe asthma.
Professor of Modern British History, Durham University Prof. Julie-Marie Strange studied for her PhD at the University of Liverpool between 1996 and 2000. She began her career at Birkbeck, University of London, before joining the University of Manchester in 2003. She moved to Durham University in October 2019. Julie-Marie is an historian of modern Britain and Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences with long standing research interests in the history of inequalities and emotions. She has published widely on death, grief and poverty, fatherhood and class, charitable fundraising, the emotional politics of money, and on pedigree dogs and pet keeping. More recently she has begun working on social class in the countryside. Julie-Marie has run research grants funded by the ESRC, AHRC and Leverhulme Trust. She has experience working with a range of non-HE organisations, including the National Trust, Salvation Army International Heritage Centre, Beamish: the Living Museum of the North and Blue Cross Pet Bereavement Support Service. She is a co-founder of The Pet Loss Network (petlossnetwork.org).
PhD Student Investigating Child and Youth Mental Health, Brock University Ms. Jessica Goddard is currently a PhD student at Brock University working under Dr. Karen Patte and Dr. John Krzeczkowski. She has also completed a Master of Science under Dr. Karen Patte. Her research has mostly focused on child and youth mental health and mental health program evaluation. Jessica takes pride in facilitating meaningful youth engagement throughout the entirety of the research process, especially on matters that directly affect youth. She also continuously works to create knowledge mobilization tools for youth and schools to disseminate knowledge effectively and improve the mental health literacy of youth.
Professor of Public Policy, University of Michigan John Ciorciari focuses on international politics and law, particularly in the Global South. His current research focuses primarily on hedging and alignment politics in the Indo-Pacific region and Middle East. He also works on international interventions and international criminal law. He is the author of "Sovereignty Sharing in Fragile States" (Stanford, 2021) and "The Limits of Alignment: Southeast Asia and the Great Powers since 1975" (Georgetown, 2010), the co-author of "Hybrid Justice: the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia" (Michigan, 2014), and co-editor of "The Courteous Power: Japan and Southeast Asia in the Indo-Pacific Era" (Michigan, 2021), among other works. He is currently a visiting scholar at St. Antony's College, Oxford. He has been a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford, an Andrew Carnegie Fellow, an Asia Society Fellow, and a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations. From 2004-07, he served as a policy official in the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of International Affairs. Since 1999, he has been a legal advisor to the Documentation Center of Cambodia, which promotes historical memory and justice for the atrocities of the Pol Pot regime. He has an AB and JD from Harvard and MPhil and DPhil from Oxford, where he was a Fulbright Scholar.
Associate Professor of Polar Glaciology and Oceanography, Northumbria University, Newcastle Jan De Rydt is a UKRI Future Leaders fellow at Northumbria University, where he conducts research in polar glaciology and oceanography. He is interested in physical processes that govern the flow of glaciers and ice caps, and their interactions with the climate system. He uses a combination of theory, measurements and computer models to simulate present-day and future changes of the Antarctic Ice Sheet, and understand its complex intereactions with the surrounding ocean. His work aims to reduce the uncertainty in sea level rise forecasts over the next decades to centuries.
Lecturer, Department of Political Science and International Studies, University of Birmingham Julian Hoerner is Lecturer in Politics at POLSIS. His research focuses on the interaction of electoral behaviour and political institutions in shaping representation, accountability, and the quality of democracy in Europe. He also has an interest in the politics and policies of the European Union and the impact of historical legacies on contemporary politics. Before joining POLSIS, Julian was a Senior Research Analyst covering the European Union and Germany at the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office and a Fellow in European Politics and Public Policy at the LSE.
