Contributors

Researcher in Centre for Loneliness Studies, Sheffield Hallam University Jan is currently carrying out research on intergenerational living and the impact on health, wellbeing and levels of loneliness among older people and young adults. Her areas of expertise is student well-being, intergenerational living and loneliness.

John McAloon

Senior Lecturer, Graduate School of Health, University of Technology Sydney

Senior Lecturer, Graduate School of Health, University of Technology Sydney In the last decade, I have worked in various settings including the public service, private practice, university education and clinical supervision. I have qualifications in Film and Television, Education and Clinical Psychology and my PhD research looked at the development of substance use and mental health in young people. My work with child and adolescent clients has seen me utilise behaviourally based parenting interventions, evaluate Out of Home Care residential services and develop and supervise clinical teams working in these areas. I have worked in a range of specialist clinics Queensland and NSW in child behaviour, child and adolescent anxiety, and adolescent secure care. My recent work has seen me develop and deliver prevention and early intervention services for children, young people and their families/carers; develop, deliver and evaluate services for Indigenous Australians, within rural and remote contexts and for adolescents in Out of Home Care; produce a range of service documents including clinical guidelines and service specifications; evaluate Out of Home Care services; respond in clinical terms to complexity and comorbidity in mental health and to the role parents and carers play in the development of social, emotional and behavioural problems. I am an endorsed as a Clinical Psychologist and as a supervisor with the Psychology Board of Australia and my supervision of others has been undertaken within the professional settings I have worked in and in an external capacity. I have supervised clinical master’s students, clinical doctorate students and clinical graduates.

James Kinsella

PhD Researcher in Finance, University of Bath

PhD Researcher in Finance, University of Bath James has a keen interest in Emotional and Behavioural Finance frameworks. He mainly focuses on the psychological and emotional implications of investors' investment decision-making processes through analysis of volumetric expression. He also has a passion for Elliott Wave theory and works as an associate tutor at the university.

Joseph Hayes

Associate Professor, Psychology, Acadia University

Associate Professor, Psychology, Acadia University I am an experimental psychologist with expertise in social-personality psychology. My research examines how people respond to threatening events.

Jacob Bauer

Lecturer of Philosophy, University of Dayton

Lecturer of Philosophy, University of Dayton Jacob Bauer joined the University of Dayton Philosophy Department in 2014. He has also taught at Wright State University and Sinclair Community College. He teaches, researches and writes in the areas of normative ethics, professional ethics, effective altruism, philosophy of religion, philosophy of nonviolence and philosophy of science fiction. His graduate thesis explored Gandhi’s nonviolence through the lens of normative ethics. He is also an active member of the Dayton International Peace Museum. He has served the Peace Museum in many roles, including vice-chair of the board of directors, docent, education committee chair, and programs committee chair. Through the Peace Museum, he helps organize public events, including the 2020 Building Peace Series and MLK Dialogues series. In his free time, he enjoys spending time with his family and a variety of nerdy hobbies such as playing Magic: the Gathering, watching Star Trek and reading The Expanse series.

Jens Walter

Professor at the School of Microbiology, University College Cork

Professor at the School of Microbiology, University College Cork Jens Walter serves as the Professor of Ecology, Food, and the Microbiome at Unviersity College Cork and the APC Microbiome Ireland. His expertise lies at the interface of evolutionary ecology of the gut microbiome and human nutrition. His research focuses on the evolutionary and ecological processes that have shaped host-microbiome symbiosis and the translation of basic microbiome science into therapeutic and nutritional strategies. Dr. Walter and his collaborators have pioneered the application of ecological theory to elucidate ecological and nutritional factors that shape gut microbiomes and have achieved targeted modulations of microbiomes via dietary strategies and live microbes. Prof. Walter has published >150 peer-reviewed publications and is a ‘highly cited researcher’ according to the analytics company Clarivate. Prof. Walter’s research has been featured on six occasions in the research highlights of Nature and Nature Reviews journals, and he has participated in several invitation-only workshops and think-tanks of the NIH, CIFAR (Canadian-based global organization that convenes extraordinary minds to address the most important questions facing science and humanity; https://www.cifar.ca/) and ILSI to discuss imminent issues of the microbiome field. He has led several provocative science commentaries with other opinion leaders that inter alia challenged current paradigms in the microbiome field that required critical assessment, such as the exaggeration of causal claims (Cell, 2020, 180:221-232), the definition of prebiotics (Nat Rev Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2015, 12:303-10), use of ‘human microbiota-associated mice’ (Cell Host and Microbe 2016, 19:575-578), and the ‘prenatal in utero microbiome’ (Microbiome 2017, 5(1):48 and Microbiome 2021, 9(1):5).