Professor of Dementia Care, University of Bradford Jan Oyebode, Professor of Dementia Care, moved to University of Bradford in 2013 and before that combined an NHS career as a clinical psychologist with older people with academic roles, most recently in Birmingham. She has researched widely on topics connected with dementia, bereavement and old age psychology. Her current interests focus on relationships in dementia, including cultural influences and also young onset and fronto-temporal dementias.
Professor of Health Psychology, University of Surrey Jane Ogden is Professor of Psychology at the University of Surrey. Her research interests include eating behaviour and obesity, communication in the consultation, and women’s health. She has authored many books, including 'The psychology of eating: From healthy to disordered behaviour', 'Fat Chance, the Myth of Dieting explained', and 'Health Psychology: a textbook'. Her new book: 'The good parenting food guide: how to manage what children eat without making food an issue' is due to be published by Wiley in Feb 2014.
Associate Professor of Environmental Planning, Griffith University Jason Byrne is an urban geographer. He undertook his PhD at the University of Southern California (Los Angeles) where he was a fellow in the Center for Sustainable Cities. Jason is also a Senior Fellow with the Johns Hopkins University Institute for Policy Studies. He was previously a town planner and environmental policy officer with the Western Australian government. Jason's research interests include: urban nature and urban ecology; park and green-space planning; environmental equity and justice; open space and residential density; ecological sustainability; and climate change justice.
Professor of Management, University of New England John Rice is a Professor of Management at the University of New England Business School. His PhD looked at strategic alliances in mobile telecommunications, and he has other postgraduate degrees in economics, business administration, finance and education. Prior to joining UNE, he was Associate Professor at the Griffith Business School's Gold Coast campus. Previously his role was as Chief Researcher at the National Centre for Vocational Education Research, based in Adelaide. He has a particular interest in the intersection of worker skills, organisational productivity and social development.
Associate Professor of History, Boston University A specialist on social movements in Latin America, Rubin combines innovative methodological approaches with the study of democratic possibility in Latin America over the past thirty years. Rubin’s work is ethnographic, collaborative, interdisciplinary, and transnational. Jeffrey W. Rubin is the author of Decentering the Regime: Ethnicity, Radicalism, and Democracy in Juchitán, Mexico (Duke 1997), co-author of Sustaining Activism: A Brazilian Women's Movement and a Father-Daughter Collaboration (Duke 2013), and co-editor of Enduring Reform: Progressive Activism and Business Responses in Latin America's Democracies (Pittsburgh 2014), Lived Religion and Lived Citizenship in Latin America's Zones of Crisis (Latin American Research Review 2014), and Beyond Civil Society: Activism, Participation, and Protest in 21st Century Latin America (Duke, forthcoming). Rubin’s current project, Seeing and Not Seeing: Essays on Democratic Possibility in Latin America and Beyond, argues that in order to understand the dynamic and unstable mixes of democracy and violence, economic expansion and continuing exclusions, that characterize Latin America today – and to discern possibilities for and limits to progressive reform in this context – it is essential to conceptualize historical forces and political actors not as coherent and bounded, but rather as made up of multiple and changing forces, strands, and cultures.
Research Fellow in Clinical Psychology, The University of Queensland I received my PhD in the field of clinical psychology from The University of Queensland. My PhD involved developing and evaluating a new version of the Triple P-Positive Parenting Program for grandparents. My research is now focused on examining the role of mindfulness and compassion in enhancing nurturing family environments. I am also a Clinical Psychologist and work in private practice at Psychology Consultants where I practice compassion focused therapy.
