Associate Professor, Princeton University Jacob Dlamini is a historian of Africa interested in precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial African History. He obtained a Ph.D. from Yale University in 2012 and is also a graduate of Wits University in South Africa and Sussex University in England. Jacob held a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Barcelona, Spain, from November 2011 to April 2015, and was a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University from August 2014 to May 2015. A qualified field guide, Jacob is also interested in comparative and global histories of conservation and national parks. His books include Askari: A Story of Collaboration and Betrayal in the Anti-Apartheid Struggle; Safari Nation: A Social History of the Kruger National Park; The Terrorist Album: Apartheid’s Insurgents, Collaborators, and the Security Police.
Associate Professor, Culture and Society, Western Sydney University Dr Jessica Weir is an Associate Professor at the Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University, and a Visiting Fellow at the Fenner School of Environment and Society, The Australian National University. Dr Weir investigates the social-cultural dimensions of environmental management, spanning issues of natural hazards, fresh water, native title, climate change and decolonial ethics. Dr Weir learns from Indigenous peoples' knowledge and governance practices, to draw out insights for public sector governance and academic knowledge generation. She works with Indigenous communities, leaders and academics in southeast and western Australia. Dr Weir worked for ten years in the Native Title Research Unit at the Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS).
Policy Coordinator - Australia, Climateworks Centre Josh works for Climateworks Centre, supporting the Australia Country Team in influencing Australian public policy climate action aligned with the Paris Agreement aligned 1.5C goal. He works across Climateworks’ systems to influence public policy by supporting stakeholder engagement, thought leadership, submissions to government consultations, and policy briefs. He previously managed the stakeholder engagement strategy for Climateworks’ Cities system, across transport, infrastructure, and buildings portfolios. This included completing mapping to identify influential stakeholders in each sector, and developing tailored engagement strategies for different stakeholder groups. Prior to joining Climateworks, Josh worked for Victoria’s Level Crossing Removal Project, overseeing the on-site environmental management and performance of rail construction projects. He has also worked in communications for various not-for-profits, and completed an internship at CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, where he published peer-reviewed research on stakeholder mapping for ecosystem management of the Southern Ocean. Josh holds a Bachelor of Arts (Politics & Literature) from the University of Melbourne and a Master of Environment and Sustainability from Monash University.
Senior lecturer in drama education, Deakin University Jo Raphael is senior lecturer in drama education at Deakin University. She teaches in postgraduate and undergraduate pre-service teacher education programs and remains active in school and community settings. She has applied drama for learning within diverse contexts including museums and galleries and in areas of the humanities, languages, science and environmental sustainability. Jo is Artistic Director of Fusion Theatre, an inclusive community-based theatre company. She has won multiple awards for her teaching and has been awarded for her extensive contributions to her professional community. Her research and publications span the areas of arts curriculum and pedagogy, teacher education, inclusive education and teaching for diversity. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5220-314X
Senior Lecturer in History, Anglia Ruskin University Joseph Harley is an expert in the history of poverty over the early modern, Georgian and Victorian periods and researches the topics through myriad approaches including consumption, welfare, material culture and social relations. Joseph also researches human-animal relationships (especially with dogs) and the lives of people who lived in workhouses, especially, c. 1690-1834. He has published a number of articles on these themes and three books. His book, 'At Home with the Poor: Consumer Behaviour and Material Culture in England, c. 1650-1850', was published with Manchester University Press in 2024. He has also recently finished co-editing 'Objects of Poverty: Material Culture in Britain from 1700' for Bloomsbury, which will be published in summer 2025.
Dr Juan Diaz-Granados is a Lecturer at Thomas More Law School, Australian Catholic University. Dr Juan Diaz-Granados is a Lecturer at Thomas More Law School, Australian Catholic University. He holds an LLB (Hons), Grad Dip Commercial Law, Grad Dip Business Law, Grad Dip Insurance Law, LLM International Law, and PhD. He is a lawyer with an international focus and with more than 14 years of experience between practice and teaching. As a practitioner, he has worked in the private sector with law firms and multinational companies. As an academic, he has experience in teaching in both the Civil Law and the Common Law legal systems at undergraduate and postgraduate level in a wide variety of law subjects.
