Associate Professor, Department of Communication and Media Studies, York University, Canada Jonathan Obar, PhD is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication & Media Studies at York University. His research focuses on information policy and the relationship between digital technologies, civil liberties and the inclusiveness of public cultures. Academic publications address big data and privacy, online consent processes, data privacy transparency, internet routing and NSA surveillance, network neutrality, and digital activism. With funding from the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, he recently launched www.biggestlieonline.com, a knowledge mobilization site to engage stakeholders in meaningful online consent research. Dr. Obar previously worked as a Research Fellow with the media reform group Free Press, the public policy think tank the New America Foundation, and as a Senior Advisor to the Wikimedia Foundation’s Wikipedia Education Program.
Postdoctoral Researcher - Lifestyle Research Center, EM Lyon Business School I am a researcher and educator in Marketing. Through ethnography and other qualitative research methods, my research covers the role of cultural belief structures (e.g., religion and environmental beliefs) in shaping consumer culture and behavior. My research identity is concentrated in three main areas, namely, Marketing and Consumer Culture, Sustainable Consumption and Production, and Religion/Spirituality. My recent work has appeared in outputs such as Marketing Theory, Journal of Marketing Management, and Qualitative Market Research.
Assistant Professor, Tier II Canada Research Chair in Interdisciplinary Neuroscience, Mount Saint Vincent University Dr. Khoury is an Assistant Professor at Mount Saint Vincent University. Her research adopts an interdisciplinary and multi-method approach to understand how early life stress impacts the brain and behaviour of parents and children, at different stages of development. Early life stress encompasses circumstances such as abuse and neglect, parental mental health, and caregiving difficulties, which can adversely impact child development. Dr. Khoury's research examines both typical and atypical development, spanning from the prenatal period to adulthood, using experimental, observational, and clinical research methods as well as meta-analyses. Much of this research includes longitudinal studies which examine neurobiological stress and emotion regulation, in parents and children. She studies stress responses primarily through physiological markers, including the stress hormone, cortisol, as well as through brain imaging techniques. Stress and emotional regulation are important contributors to child developmental outcomes, including developmental psychopathology. Thus, understanding these processes can inform research and practice to reduce adverse effects on child health and development.
PhD candidate, Integrative Biology, University of Windsor I am a researcher studying the vocal behavior and social structure of endangered St. Lawrence belugas.
Professor of Plant-Soil Interactions, University of Sheffield Jonathan has interests in sustainable agriculture, especially focused on sustainable management of soils and soil resources, regenerative agriculture and collaborative research between farmers and academic researchers. He has interests in sustainable urban food production. He teaches sustainable agriculture at the University of Sheffield, and has been conducting long-term trials of effects of reintroducing leys into arable rotations to regenerate soil health via the recovery of key functional groups of soil organisms. He has a PhD in Plant-Soil Interactions and has published over 130 papers, and supervised / co-supervised more than 20 PhD students.
Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research, Sheffield Hallam University Jan Gilbertson is a Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research at Sheffield Hallam University. She has an MA in Social Science Research Methods, extensive experience of working on collaborative and multi-disciplinary projects and expertise in both qualitative and quantitative research methods, project management and policy and programme evaluation. Jan has managed numerous evaluative studies and successfully undertaken research for a wide range of clients including the former DECC, DWP, the BIG Lottery, local authorities, the NHS, Age UK and the ESRC. She has considerable experience of in-depth qualitative interviewing and working with stakeholders in order to develop an understanding of decision-making processes, to gain insight into the views of programme/project staff and project users to assess the impacts and outcomes of interventions on beneficiaries.
