PhD Candidate, Sociology, York University, Canada KEEFER WONG is a PhD candidate in the Sociology Department at York University. As a graduate associate at York Centre for Asian Research, his research intersects globalization, political sociology, knowledge production, Canada, China, and Hong Kong. He has presented in international conferences and published in academic and government reports. A recipient of the Ontario Graduate Scholarship and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council doctoral scholarship since he joined at York, Keefer is working on his dissertation examining anti-Asian racism, ethnonationalism, and experiences among older ethnic Chinese individuals who are born in Canada and those who immigrated to Canada as working adults. He has been an RA and GA for numerous research projects, including the SSHRC-funded project entitled “COVID19: Exploring the Experiences of Anti-Chinese/Asian Racism in the GTA” (PI: Guida C. Man), and was recently nominated for the Dean’s Teaching Award.
Lecturer, Monash University Kate Saunders is a lecturer in the Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics whose research interests are in statistical climatology. Her primary focus is on modelling climate extremes; and understanding how the probability of extreme events might be influenced by climate change. Other interests include; statistical post-processing of meteorological forecasts, quality control of meteorological data and how to estimate the risk posed by compound weather events. Kate’s research improves our understanding of the probability of extreme climate/weather events and helps us to make informed decisions about natural disaster risk.
Professor of Paediatric Cardiac Intensive Care, UCL Professor Kate Brown has been a consultant in Paediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Unit at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust (GOSH) for more than 20 years. Kate has a Masters in public health and is the Centre Lead for Outcomes of Children’s Cardiovascular Disease and Critical Illness at the Children’s Institute of Cardiovascular Science, University College London (UCL). Kate’s research interests lie in children's critical illness and children's heart disease, including evaluation of treatments, long-term impacts, and parent and child experiences of critical illness.
Hon. Assoc. Prof., Fire Ecology and Management, The University of Melbourne Dr Kevin Tolhurst AM is Hon. Assoc. Prof. in Fire Ecology and Management in the Department of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences, University of Melbourne based in Creswick. Kevin provides expert advice on fire behaviour and fire suppression strategies at major bushfires. Some examples include the Black Saturday fires in Victoria in 2009, and the Great Divide Fires in 2007. Kevin has been involved in several inquiries and court cases involving fires including: Linton Coronial Inquiry, Canberra Coronial Inquiry, House of Representative 2003 Inquiry, 2005 Wangary Coronial Inquiry S.A., the 2008 Parliamentary Inquiry into the 2007 fires in Victoria, and the 2009 Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission. Kevin’s research activities were centred around developing a bushfire risk management decision support system to be used nationally. He is also active in running specialist training nationally for Fire Behaviour Analysts. His research and consulting interests include: • Wildfire behaviour prediction • Development of prescribed burning techniques and guidelines • Landscape scale fire ecology management • Fire risk management • Ecological impacts of repeated fires http://www.forestscience.unimelb.edu.au/people/staff/kevin_tolhurst/index.html
Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) student, University of Toronto current student in the inaugural Doctor of Public Health class at Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto Professor, Nursing and Emergency Services, Cambrian College, Sudbury, Ontario founding member of the Sudbury Temporary Overdose Prevention Society (STOPS)
ARC DECRA Senior Research Fellow, University of Sydney Dr Katherine Kenny is Deputy Director of the Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies, and an ARC DECRA Senior Research Fellow in the School of Social and Political Sciences at The University of Sydney. She gained her PhD in Sociology and Science Studies from the University of California, San Diego in 2015. Prior to joining The University of Sydney, she held positions as Postdoctoral Research Fellow, then Research Fellow at the Practical Justice Initiative and Centre for Social Research in Health at UNSW Sydney. Her research draws on social theory and qualitative methodologies to better understand how health and disease, (or illness and wellness) are understood, ‘treated’, experienced and made meaningful in clinical contexts and in everyday life. PhD UC San Diego MA UC San Diego BSc(Hons) UNSW BA UNSW
