Pro Vice-Chancellor Sessional Academic Experience and Deputy Head of School (Psychology), Deakin University Jaclyn Broadbent is an Associate Professor, Pro Vice-Chancellor Sessional Academic Experience, Deputy Head of School (Psychology), and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Research in Assessment and Digital Learning (CRADLE) at Deakin University. Jaclyn has a Ph.D. in both psychology and education. Jaclyn’s research focuses on online self-regulated learning as well as the development, evaluation, and translation of effective teaching strategies to ensure student success. Jaclyn has won several awards for her teaching, including an AAUT Award and Citation for University Teaching and Deakin Teacher of the Year twice.
Associate Professor, Macquarie University Centre for the Health Economy, Macquarie University onas is an Associate Professor at the Macquarie University Centre for the Health Economy (MUCHE) with a focus on mental health and the study of older adults and ageing. He was previously a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for the Business and Economics of Health at the University of Queensland, a researcher at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, and a Senior Associate at KPMG. His research aims to enable healthcare organisations to introduce new and review existing policies and programs to deliver healthcare efficiently, effectively, and equitably. His research is at the intersection of health, economics, and psychology, he regularly works in interdisciplinary teams from those three disciplines and with other clinical researchers. Two of his primary research interests are the role of health as a determinant of economic productivity, for example, how stress and the management of stress affects worker performance, and the study of economic decisions of older adults. Jonas has published in many of the leading outlets for research in health economics and at the intersection of economics and psychology, including in Health Economics, Social Science & Medicine, the Journal of Public Economics, the European Journal of Health Economics, the Journal of Economic Psychology, the Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, and Economics and Human Biology. He has attracted about A$4 million in external funding as a Chief Investigator or Associate Investigator on grants and fellowships.
PhD Candidate in History, University of Nottingham Jessica Lloyd May is a doctoral researcher in History and Folklore at the University of Nottingham, specialising in the exploration of community, identity and history through folk customs. Her research particularly focuses on the Randwick Wap of Gloucestershire as a study of the complexity and value of folk customs as both a part of community life, and as a unique historical source. This study spans the documented history of the custom into present day, bringing historical narratives together with contemporary oral histories for a comprehensive view of a folk custom.
Professor of Law, Temple University Jonathan Lipson holds the Harold E. Kohn Chair and is a Professor of Law at Temple University Beasley School of Law. He teaches Contracts, Bankruptcy, Corporations, Commercial Law, Lawyering for Entrepreneurship, International Business Transactions, and a variety of other business law courses. In addition to Temple, he has taught at the law schools of the University of Wisconsin (where he held the Foley & Lardner Chair), the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Baltimore. His research focuses on corporate governance, restructuring, and contracting practices. He has published in many of the nation’s top law reviews, including those of the UCLA, Boston University, Notre Dame, and Southern California law schools. His work is frequently cited, including by the United States Supreme Court and U.S. Courts of Appeals, as well as leading business courts such as the Delaware Supreme Court, the Delaware Chancery Court and the Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York. He is also a coauthor (with Macaulay et al.) of Contracts Law in Action, the nation’s leading casebook that takes a “law in action” approach to contract law. An occasional empiricist, Professor Lipson has published two articles on the use of “examiners” in chapter 11 bankruptcies, the second of which won the Editors’ Prize as the best paper published in the American Bankruptcy Law Journal in 2016. His study of employment at the Trump Casinos in connection with their bankruptcies received widespread attention, and was noted in Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. Professor Lipson is a member of the American Law Institute, a Regent of the American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers, and is active with the Business Law Section of the American Bar Association where, from 2011 to 2017, he was Section Content Officer. He is now a member of the Section Council and the Corporate Laws Committee. He has also served as an expert in complex corporate reorganizations, including that of Enron Corp. His shorter works have appeared on, among others, The Huffington Post, Concurring Opinions, and Credit Slips. He also writes op-eds for the National Law Journal and USAToday. He is the founding editor of The Temple 10-Q, an electronic business law newsletter published by the Beasley School of Law. Prior to teaching, Professor Lipson was a lawyer. From 1995-1999, he practiced corporate and commercial law in Boston, with the firm of Hill & Barlow. From 1992 to 1995, he practiced bankruptcy and commercial law in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis. From 1990-1992, he practiced with Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy. While in practice, he was involved in several large and complex chapter 11 cases, including those of Healthco, Thinking Machines Corporation, and CIS Corporation. He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin, B.A., with honors (1986) & J.D. (1990), where he was a note editor of the Wisconsin Law Review.
Associate Professor of Sociology, Duke University Jessi Streib is an Associate Professor of Sociology. She is the author of The Accidental Equalizer: How Luck Determines Pay After College.
Professor of Meteorology, UMass Lowell Jeffrey Basara is a professor of meteorology and serves as the chair of the Department of Environmental, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. His research is focused on the complex, integrated processes across weather, climate, water, and ecosystems with specific attention directed toward precipitation extremes and associated impacts. This includes droughts, flash droughts, flash floods, and pluvial periods, along with the evolution of the planetary boundary layer, surface-atmosphere exchange, urban-atmosphere interactions, and severe and extreme weather such as heat waves, cold air outbreaks, and cascading events. Many of these research projects require collaboration with a range of colleagues and scientists and true interdisciplinary partnerships. He is a Kavli Fellow of the United States National Academy of Sciences and has received multiple research awards including the Research, Education, and Economics (REE) Under Secretary’s Award in 2019 from the USDA.
