Professor of Marketing, Cardiff University Kate’s research interests include consumer misbehaviour, dysfunction during service, service design, social media dynamics disinformation and behavioural change. Kate was awarded Cardiff Business School’s Martin Evans award for excellence for teaching for 2018. Kate serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Service Research, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Marketing Management and Journal of Services Marketing. Kate is a professional member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (MCIM), a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) and a member of the Beta Gamma Sigma International Business Honour Society.
Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Aston University Katy is interested in the ways that gender and sexual power relations are negotiated, and resisted, in different spaces and in relation to a variety of embodied practices. Her main research interest is in women's experiences and consumption practices within 'sexual' leisure spaces. Katy is an ethnographer and visual sociologist who has undertaken research projects relating to erotic dance; sex work; the practice of orgasmic meditation; ageing and everyday life; ageing, racism and digital exclusion; and creative pedagogies. Her three most recent projects include a BA/Leverhulme-funded project entitled ‘Empowering Pleasures? ‘Sexual’ Leisure Spaces For Women’ (P.I); a project on Ageing and Digital Exclusion, funded by Research England (C.I); and research into the sexual health needs of ‘online’ sex workers in Birmingham for University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (C.I). Katy’s research monograph Erotic Performance and Spectatorship: New Frontiers in Erotic Dance was published in 2017 (Routledge), and she has co-edited two books: Embodying Religion, Gender and Sexuality (2021, Routledge, with Sarah Jane Page); and Queer Sex Work (2015, Routledge, with Mary Laing and Nicola Smith), which brings together insights from sex workers, academics, practitioners and activists.
Research Fellow, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Medicine & Health, University of Sydney Dr Kim Bulkeley is an occupational therapist with over 25 years experience in the community disability sector in front line, management, policy and research roles. Kim has a continuing position with the Occupational Therapy Discipline at the Faculty of Health Sciences in a teaching and research role. Kim is passionate about her research work with remote communities in north western NSW increasing access to allied health services through action research methods. Kim completed her PhD in 2017, investigating a family centred intervention for young children with autism and has published this work in peer reviewed journals and a book chapter. Kim is committed to developing and supporting future generations of occupational therapists through authentic learning and involvement of students in professional networks and activities beyond their units of study.
Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Virginia It is difficult to explain to many what I do, so I have started by saying that I am like a platypus – full of unique features, but no one knows what to do with me. Currently serve as the Associate Chief Medical Officer for Critical Care at the University of Virginia and the Vice Chair of Patient Safety and Quality Improvement for the Department of Medicine at the University of Virginia. Before these roles, I served as the Associate Hospital Epidemiologist and Medical Director for the Medical Intensive Care Unit and Special Pathogens Unit. My background is in Pulmonary and Critical Care as well as Epidemiology. My research interests are improving population outcomes in Hospital Settings, mainly through the lens of information overload. Outside of my work, I am an avid runner and optical course racer (there is even a photo of me in Trail Runner years ago as an advertisement for Spartan Race). I am also an active volunteer with the Boy Scouts of America, specifically supporting the development of troops for Girls, DEI, and summer camp programs in my local council. Mostly though I am a father, human, and well a platypus.
Assistant Professor, Aarhus University I do research in natural environments and health, climate and biodiversity using Big Data and GIS. Currently working on an interdisciplinary project about green urban development in South Africa trying to combine perspectives from geography, ecology, landscape architecture, sociology and political science.
Director of Her Story, project coordinator at The Equality Institute, lead on U Right Sis? project, Indigenous Knowledge Kayla Glynn-Braun is a proud First Nations Wiradjuri Woman from New South Wales and has lived in Australia’s Northern territory for over 12 years. Kayla has worked within the community and housing sector for over a decade and has worked in frontline services responding to domestic, family, and sexual violence. Kayla is particularly passionate about the critical and urgent need for Australia to address violence perpetrated against First Nations women. With a background in housing and social environments, Kayla has previously been involved in homelessness services, housing policy and systems, case management and program management. Kayla holds a Diploma in Leadership and Management, Diploma in Business, and Diploma in Property Services in Real Estate.
