Head of School of Built Environment, Professor of Urban Planning, University of Technology Sydney Jua Cilliers is Head of the School of Built Environment, within the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building at UTS. She is Professor in Urban Planning and currently also serves as the President of the Commonwealth Association of Planners. She holds a 4-year professional degree (B.Art et Scien) and Master’s degree (M.Art et Scien) in Urban and Regional Planning, an additional Master’s degree in Economics (M.Com), as well as a PhD in Urban and Regional Planning. She is a former finalist of the prestigious National Science and Technology Awards in South Africa and the Woman in Science Awards, and winner of the South African National Teaching Excellence Award. She is also the recipient of the 2024 NAWIC NSW Executive Leadership Award. Currently she actively leads public workshops, symposia and industry training events to share her research expertise pertaining to the planning of sustainable cities, green-infrastructure planning, nature-based solutions and community engagement to enhance resilience and broader quality of life. With experience as chief investigator across Africa, Europe and Australia, Jua is unwaveringly committed to driving real change, shaping the future of our cities, and empowering the leaders who will inherit them.
Professor, Department of Health and Physical Education, Mount Royal University Joe's research focuses on aspects of destination management (both here in Canada and abroad) and marketing and tourism motivation. His past education includes a Bachelor of Arts in Geography (1987) and Honours Bachelors of Outdoor Recreation (1987) both from Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario. He obtained his Master's in Recreation Administration from the University of Alberta (1990) in Edmonton, and his Doctorate in Geography (2010) from the University of Calgary, studying the resort community evolution from an interdisciplinary approach focusing on amenity migration. Joe has been teaching in the ETOL program since its inception in 2000. His primary areas of teaching include the three levels of ecotourism courses, tourism marketing, and expedition courses. Another area of teaching focus for him is the area of international field schools. He operates a six-credit ecotourism field school course to Peru each odd year and has run numerous similar field schools to Belize and Mexico in the past. He has run expeditions with ETOL students in Alberta, British Columbia, the Yukon, and Northwest Territories. Over the years he has managed to gain several outdoor leadership certifications in the areas of wilderness first aid, and canoeing, among others. He embraces a wide range of teaching approaches but admits that he most enjoys being involved with experiential education whether on-campus or some far-off corner of the world.
Lecturer in Sport and Fitness, The Open University Jessica is a Senior lecturer in Sport and Fitness at the Open University. She has worked as an academic at the university since October 2011. Prior to that she worked as an associate lecturer at the Open University since 2008 and as a lecturer in sport and exercise science within the FE sector. Jessica's specialist area is sport and exercise sociology in particular the topics of female sports participation and the family in sport. Jessica's research interests lie within the sociocultural influences of the family within sport participation. Jessica PhD investigated the socio-cultural influences on female participation in netball across the lifespan.
Associate Professor, College of Charleston Historian of pandemics and public health. Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Editor of The Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences. Jacob Steere-Williams is a historian of epidemic disease, particularly in 19th and early-20th century Britain and the former British colonies. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota and began teaching at the college in 2011. He is the author of the 2020 book The Filth Disease: Typhoid Fever and the Practices of Epidemiology in Victorian England, published by the University of Rochester Press in the Studies In Medical History series.
