Professor, Faculty of Social Work & Director, RESOLVE (Research and Education for Solutions to Violence and Abuse), University of Manitoba Dr. Nixon’s research has primarily focused on policies aimed at reducing violence, as well as institutional responses to intimate partner violence, including the child welfare and criminal justice systems. Dr. Nixon is also the Director of RESOLVE, a tri-prairie research network on family and gender-based violence.
Doctoral Candidate, Université Evangélique en Afrique Gang Karume is a DRC native Bio-environmentalist with more than two decades of humanitarian and development work experience in both operations and programming. He has worked both as national and international staff serving in various positions including Emergency Operations Director, Regional Operations Director and Country Director in Chad, Sierra Leone, Central African Republic, the Great Lakes Region, South Sudan, Congo Brazzaville…He has worked with many international research institutions and Universities including Transition International, 3Ie (The International Initiative for Impact Evaluation), Columbia University, Tufts University. With Transition International, he contributed to the evaluation of humanitarian aid in DRC for the period between 2003 and 2013. With 3Ie, Gang contributed to the impact evaluation feasibility study design for a Community Driven Emergency Response and Reconstruction in return areas. With Gang contribution, Columbia University team has published in South and Nork Kivu provinces several research reports using both qualitative and quantitative methods. Reports include the UN1612 human rights violations, access to formal and informal education, improving surveillance of attacks on children education, Non-food items post fair evaluation…to name a few. Gang has an exceptional knowledge of the great lakes' region, its context and power dynamics and carried out many assessments related to peace and regional integration. He is currently supporting a national non-profit organization Rebuild Hope for Africa (RHA) as Technical Advisor and just coming from Central Africa Republic where he spearheaded a countrywide mortality survey. See https://doi.org/10.1186/s13031-023-00514-z
PhD Candidate in Animal Psychology , University of Hull PhD student at the University of Hull investigating whether studies of animal psychology can benefit conservation efforts and change public attitudes of wild mammalian carnivores
Research Fellow (Automated Decision-Making Systems), RMIT University Kieran Hegarty is a Research Fellow at the RMIT University node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society (ADM+S). Kieran’s research explores the relationship between social infrastructure (particularly libraries) and digital technologies. His PhD research examines how online material is incorporated into major public library collections, and the effects that a changing information environment has on the public’s right to access and contribute to the shared cultural record. Kieran is a member of the Australian Digital Inclusion Index research team and contributes to a range of ADM+S projects focused on digital inclusion and participation. He was also an inaugural Digital Humanism Junior Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna and is a PhD member of two of Australia’s leading interdisciplinary research centres (the Centre for Urban Research and the Digital Ethnography Research Centre at RMIT).
Senior Lecturer, Journalism, Liverpool John Moores University Kate Heathman began her career in weekly and daily regional newspapers where she was a writer, copy editor and columnist. She has been teaching Journalism since 2000 and her research interests include community reporting, simulated newsrooms in the classroom and political communication on Twitter.
Associate Dean, Faculty of Arts, The University of Melbourne Qualifications Doctor of Philosophy (University of Melbourne, 2007) Post Graduate Diploma in Art History (University of Melbourne, 2002) Graduate Diploma in Art History (University of Melbourne, 2000) Postgraduate Diploma in Economics (University of Melbourne, 1991) Bachelor of Law and Commerce (University of Melbourne, 1981)
