PhD Candidate, Australian Catholic University Jason Smeaton is a PhD candidate at the Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, supervised by Professor Joy Damousi and Dr Mary Tomsic. His PhD research project in women’s history investigates the experience of Australian women who served in the Army nursing auxiliary during World War Two with a particular focus on the events, relationships and tensions that shaped the work of these servicewomen. His thesis is titled Nurse or not? Voluntary Aids and the Australian Army Medical Women’s Service during World War Two: tension, disruption, and the value of work.
Master's student, Department of English, Theatre, Film & Media, University of Manitoba I received my B.A. (hons.) at the University of Manitoba's department of English, Theatre, Film and Media in 2018, where I am currently enrolled as a Master's student. My professional history is varied, as I have experience as a social media assistant at a local house Museum, Dalnavert. As well, I have experience as an accessibility worker in university classrooms and as a teaching assistant in undergraduate classes. My academic portfolio is in its early stages, but I am the author of a forthcoming article (2024) on Ari Aster's Midsommar in the New Review of Film and Television Studies, and I am the co-author of a forthcoming article on crafting in the classroom in IDEAH. Aside from my academic writing, I have professional experience as a public humanities communicator. I am the co-founder and co-producer of the SSHRC-funded podcast Victorian Samplings, a podcast of the Crafting Communities project, wherein I interviewed academics, curators, artists, and other experts on Victorian material culture. I am also an Arts & Culture reporter at The Manitoban, the University of Manitoba's student newspaper and a regular contributor at The Leveller, a community newspaper based in Ottawa. My professional and academic experience have equipped me with strong communication skills and an ability to engage with newcomers in my field.
Policy Fellow, The University of Western Australia James Bowen is a Policy Fellow at the Perth USAsia Centre. His work focuses on energy, climate, geoeconomics and broader processes of Indo-Pacific integration. James was a Non-Resident Research Fellow at the Centre from 2018 to 2020.
Senior Lecturer in Resource & Environmental Planning, Massey University Jeff McNeill is a senior lecturer in environmental policy and planning in the School of People, Environment and Planning, Massey University, New Zealand. He holds a PhD in politics, a MA(Hons) in Geography and a Master of Public Policy (Distinction). Jeff came to academia after an extensive career in New Zealand central and regional government and as a consultant. He has also spent time working in the New Zealand and European parliaments. His research focuses primarily on the regional level of government and non-state regulation and their implications for environmental management in New Zealand. He is a commissioner on the International Geographic Union Commission on the Geography of Governance. He also undertakes research from an historical geography perspective of New Zealand soldiers in First World War. Reviews of his recently published book, 'Taking the Ridge: Anzacs and Germans at the Battle of Messines 1917' recognise it as the definitive Anzac account of that battle.
Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Director of AMHR Lab, University of South Florida I have been director of the Advancing Machine and Human Reasoning (AMHR) Lab at USF since 2017. I am an expert in the intersection of AI, natural language processing, human reasoning, cognitive modeling, and argumentation. My work focuses on how to not only advance AI, but to use those advances to make people reason better---whether it's in how they argue with each other, make decisions, solve problems, or work past natural cognitive biases. I was an awardee of the 2017 AFOSR Young Investigator's Program award.
Professor, Institut national de la recherche Scientifique (INRS) Jonathan Roberge is Full Professor at the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS) in Montreal, Canada. He funded the Nenic Lab as part of the Canada Research Chair in Digital Culture he has held since 2012. His most recent edited volumes include Algorithmic Culture (Routledge, 2016) and The Cultural Life of Machine Learning (Palgrave, 2020).
