Professor of Biology and Geology, Macalester College I’m a vertebrate paleontologist most interested in studying dinosaur evolution and paleobiology. My current research focuses on the evolutionary history of Titanosauria – the latest surviving and perhaps most diverse lineage of long- necked sauropod dinosaurs. Titanosauria includes over 40 species that had a near- global distribution during the Late Cretaceous. They are of particular interest to me and my students because of the incredible array of adult body sizes attained within the group. Titanosauria includes the largest land-living animals of all time, as well as species thought to be dwarfs. Among dinosaurs, titanosaurs may be one of the only groups to experience a body size reduction during their evolutionary history. With regard to paleobiology, I am most interested in understanding dinosaur life history, and utilize bone histology to explore and reconstruct growth patterns in extinct dinosaurs, living birds, and other vertebrates. To these ends, I also conduct field research in Montana, Madagascar, and Zimbabwe.
Lecturer, University of the Western Cape Kaylianne Aploon-Zokufa is a lecturer in the Institute for Post-School Studies at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) in the Faculty of Education. She is a PhD candidate and her research topic is: “An investigation into how mature women ECD practitioners access higher education through the BEd Foundation Phase programme.” Before she joined UWC, she completed a master's degree in curriculum studies at the University of Cape Town. Her interest shifted to adult learning during a six-year period of teaching, training and facilitating adult education and training programmes in workplaces and early childhood development programmes at technical, vocational, education and training colleges.
PhD Candidate at the Sustainable Buildings Research Centre, University of Wollongong Kate Wingrove is a current PhD candidate at the Sustainable Building Research Centre, at the University of Wollongong. Kate's research focus is to investigate the design processes which lead to enhanced sustainable outcomes for new build housing, in order to identify practicable pathways for increased design of sustainable housing in Australia. Kate is interested in how to integrate critical design processes into the volume build business model to improve sustainability outcomes for new build homes in Australia.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Veterinary Science, The University of Queensland Kei is a postdoctoral research fellow in zoonotic infectious disease surveillance and modelling at the Queensland Alliance for One Health Sciences, School of Veterinary Science, The University of Queensland. Her current work includes the application of spatial epidemiological modelling approaches to investigate possible associations between zoonotic infectious diseases and environmental risk factors in Australia and biosecurity related projects in Australia.
Associate Professor and Senior Clinical Psychologist, Massey University I am an Associate Professor and the Head of the School of Psychology at Massey University, and I teach in our clinical psychology programme. I am also a senior clinical psychologist, specializing in working with children, youth and families. I have worked in mental health - particularly anxiety and trauma - as well as long-term and life-limiting health conditions (particularly pediatric and youth cancer) for over twenty years. Translating psychology into everyday practices that people can use in their lives to enhance their wellbeing and relationships is something I am passionate about.
Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Macquarie University I am an Associate Professor at the Department of Economics, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. I am also an Editor of Journal of Population Economics (Springer). I served as a College of Experts at the Australian Research Council (ARC) over 2021 - 2023. My research analyses issues at the intersection of health economics and population economics. My research uses microeconometric methods to study the role of preference heterogeneity in individual decision making and its impact on the design of economic policy. My research has focused on developed and developing countries including Australia, United Kingdom, India, China, Indonesia, Vietnam, Botswana, Bangladesh, Mongolia and Combodia. My research has appeared in peer-reviewed journals including Health Economics, Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organisation, American Journal for Agricultural Economics, Social Science and Medicine, Macroeconomic Dynamics, Review of Income and Wealth, Journal of Biosocial Sciences, Value in Health, British Medical Bulletin, Feminist Economics, Ear and Hearing among other. I serve as Editor for the Journal of Population Economics, and am affiliated with the Centre of Development Economics and Sustainability at Monash University and Global Labor Organization (GLO) where I lead a research cluster Development, Health, Inequality and Behavior.
