Sir Robert Jennings Professor of International Law, University of Leicester Katja Ziegler is Sir Robert Jennings Professor of International Law. Her current research concerns the constitutionalisation and intersection of legal orders in an international, European and comparative law context, in particular by human rights; and limits on executive power to resort to military force in constitutional and international law. She has been consultant to the European Parliament on the implementation of the Charter on Fundamental Rights and expert witness to the House of Lords’ Constitution Committee in its inquiry on war-making powers of the Government. She has been invited speaker at conferences in the UK, Australia, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the USA. Previously, she has been Reader in European and Comparative Law and Erich Brost University Lecturer in the Faculty of Law and Fellow in Law and a Fellow of St Hilda’s College, University of Oxford (2007-12) and DAAD Fellow and Deputy Director of the Institute of European and Comparative Law, Oxford (2002-2007). She also was and a lecturer at the University of Bielefeld, Germany (1995-2001). She is a qualified Rechtsanwältin (Barrister-Solicitor) and has worked in the Brussels office of an international law firm before returning to academia in 2002. She teaches in the area of public international, human rights, EU law and comparative constitutional law.
Accredited Practising Dietitian; Associate Lecturer in Nutrition and Dietetics, Flinders University Kacie completed a Bachelor of Nutrition and Dietetics (Honours) at Flinders University in 2008 and PhD at University of Adelaide and CSIRO in 2014. Professional practice has included rural Dietitian, Clinical Dietitian, Private Practice and Community and Residential Aged Care Dietitian. Returned to Department of Nutrition and Dietetics at Flinders University in 2013 as a Research Fellow working across various research projects related to ageing and vascular health. Actively involved in state chapters of professional societies including Treasurer of Dietitians Association of Australia and Executive Member of Nutrition Society of Australia.
Professor Of Management, University of Sussex Katie (nee Truss) joined Sussex University in November 2013 as Professor of Management. Previously, she held several roles at the University of Kent and Kingston University. She has a PhD from London Business School where she has also recently been Chief External Examiner for the Global MBA programme. Katie has written numerous articles on meaningful work, employee engagement and strategic human resource management. Her work has appeared in the Harvard Business Review and the Sloan Management Review, and she has been commissioned to write reports and thought-pieces for the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. She is frequently invited to present her work at practitioner conferences or to chair events around the world, and has undertaken a range of consultancy, training and development projects. She is currently Non-Executive Director of the Involvement and Participation Association and Honorary Fellow at the Institute for Employment Studies. Previously, she was Co-Chair of the Steering Committee of the 'Guru Group', part of the Engage for Success movement. Katie has led large research projects funded by industry, the CIPD, the ESRC, and the NIHR. She is Associate Editor of Human Resource Management Journal and member of the Editorial Board of several other journals. Currently, she is leading a study of 'purposeful leadership' funded by the CIPD, and is co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Meaningful Work due to be published in 2017. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, an Academic Fellow of the CIPD, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She is also an Associate Member of the Assocation for Coaching, and is entered in the register of qualifications in test use (A and B) of the British Psychological Society.
Snr Research Fellow, Risk Frontiers Natural Hazards Research Centre, Macquarie University Dr Katharine Haynes is a senior Research Fellow at Risk Frontiers specialising in disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation. She has a strong commitment to ensuring that her research impacts on policy and practice. In May 2015 Katharine was awarded the Australian Academy of Science Prize for Innovation, Research and Education (ASPIRE). The award recognized her contributions in the area of Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation for an Australian scientist under the age of 40. She was the Australian nomination and a runner up for the wider Asia-Pacific ASPIRE prize. Katharine’s research interests include risk communication, preparedness and response, community and youth-based disaster risk reduction and the implementation and adaptation of policy and organisational procedure. She has considerable experience conducting qualitative interviews and quantitative surveys with members of the public, emergency management practitioners, professionals and policy makers. Katharine has experience working on a range of hazards and risks within: Montserrat, WI; Philippines; Indonesia; Australia and the United Kingdom. Katharine was called as an expert witness at the 2009 Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission, following the Black Saturday bushfire disaster. She has completed work and provided expert advice for a range of emergency services, government departments, private organisations and international NGO’s.
Senior Research Associate in Marine Ecology, UNSW Australia I am a marine ecologist and science communicator working at the University of New South Wales. I work with the Applied Marine Ecology and Ecotoxicology Lab in the School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences and am also a member of the Evolution and Ecology Research Centre. You will find me working in my office or lab at UNSW or from the labs and aquarium at the Sydney Institute of Marine Sciences, where I am involved in the Sydney Harbour Research Program.
Associate Professor, Department of Computing and Information Systems, University of Melbourne Dr Karin Verspoor works at the intersection of Science and Technology, applying computation to analysis and interpretation of biological and clinical data, particularly unstructured text data. Karin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computing and Information Systems at the University of Melbourne, as well as the Deputy Director of the University's Health and Biomedical Informatics Centre. She was previously a Principal Researcher at NICTA's Victoria Research Lab and served as the Scientific Director for Health and Life Sciences. Karin headed a research team at NICTA in Biomedical Informatics. Karin moved to Melbourne in December 2011 from the University of Colorado School of Medicine, where she was a Research Assistant Professor in the Center for Computational Pharmacology and Faculty on the Computational Bioscience Program. She also spent five years at Los Alamos National Laboratory, nearly five years in start-ups during the US Tech Bubble, and a year as a Research Fellow at Macquarie University. She received her undergraduate degree in Computer Science from Rice University (Houston, TX) and her MSc and PhD degrees in Cognitive Science and Natural Language from the University of Edinburgh (UK).
