Professor of Humanitarianism and Development, University of Bath Jason Hart is a social anthropologist by training (BA, MA, Ph.D University of London). He joined the University of Bath in September 2009 after seven years as a researcher and lecturer at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford. He is also Visiting Lecturer at the Centre for Children’s Rights Studies, University of Geneva Much of Jason’s work has explored the experience of and institutional response to young people on the margins of society and the global economy. Themes such as protection, child rights, peacebuilding, home, militarisation and asylum have been central to this research. Much of his research has been undertaken in situations of political violence and displacement. Jason has worked in South Asia (Sri Lanka, Nepal, India and Bhutan) and, increasingly, in the UK. However, his principal area of interest is the Middle East, particularly Israel / occupied Palestinian territories and Jordan. Jason has been employed as a consultant author, researcher, evaluator and trainer by various UN, governmental and non-governmental organisations. These include UNICEF, Save the Children, PLAN, Care International, and the Canadian International Development Agency. He has also served as an advisor to the UN in the formulation of studies, guidelines and policies.
Associate Professor of School Psychology, University of Florida Joni Williams Splett is an Associate Professor of School Psychology at the University of Florida's College of Education, Director of the UF Prevention and Intervention Network, and a Licensed Psychologist. Her work seeks to improve how schools best meet youths' mental health needs, especially those youth from marginalized backgrounds or for which accessing mental health care is a challenge. Her work is funded by the National Institute of Justice, National Institutes of Health, Institute for Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education’s Offices of Elementary and Secondary Education, as well as Special Education Programs, and the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, among others. Dr. Splett teaches social-emotional intervention and assessment courses, as well as supervising undergraduate and graduate students' research experiences.
Lecturer in Law, Swinburne University of Technology Jacqueline Meredith is a Lecturer at Swinburne Law School. She is also a member of the Centre for Employment and Labour Relations Law at Melbourne Law School. Her teaching and research interests lie primarily in the fields of employment law, labour law, and tort law. Jacqueline has published in top-ranked academic journals in the areas of labour law and medical law and ethics, and has co-authored a book on the intersection of law and technology.
Phd Candidate (Economics), University of Newcastle Josefa Henriquez is an economist, currently a Phd Candidate and Casual Academic at the University of Newcastle (Australia). She was formerly an advisor in the Minister’s Cabinet at the Ministry of Health of Chile, where she focused on the development of the health insurance reform act. Josefa’s research has concentrated on health economics and has several scholarly publications in A-ranked journals. She contributed to the publication of the Chilean chapter of the book ‘Risk Adjustment, Risk Sharing and Premium Regulation in Health Insurance Markets’ 2018, Elsevier.
PhD Candidate, Simon Fraser University I am currently a PhD candidate at Simon Fraser University. My current research focusses on how periglacial landscapes will adapt to climate change, combining lab experiments and field studies to try and understand the interactions between patterned ground and the hydrologic system. Before coming to Canada, I studied Geophysics at Imperial College London, where I worked on how heavy metals are transported through river networks in order to guide mitigation efforts.
Associate Professor of Dance, Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis Joanna Dee Das received her PhD in History from Columbia University and is now an Associate Professor of Dance in the Performing Arts Department at Washington University in St. Louis. She is also affiliated with Washington University's American Culture Studies Program and the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Equity. Her research interests include dance in the African diaspora, musical theater dance, and the politics of performance in the twentieth century. She is the author of Katherine Dunham: Dance and the African Diaspora (Oxford 2017), which won the 2018 de la Torre Bueno Best First Book Award from the Dance Studies Association and an honorable mention Errol Hill Award for outstanding scholarship in African American theatre and performance from the American Society for Theatre Research. She has also published articles in Journal of Urban History, Dance Research Journal, Studies in Musical Theatre, Theatre History Studies, TDR, and ARTS, as well as authored or co-authored book chapters in The Futures of Dance Studies, The Routledge Companion to the Contemporary Musical, and A Critical Companion to the American Stage Musical. Her current book project examines the history of the Branson, Missouri entertainment industry.
