Lecturer in Podiatry, University of South Australia I currently work as a teacher and researcher in the Allied Health and Human Performance unit at UniSA and hold an Adjunct Fellowship in the Discipline of Psychiatry at the University of Adelaide. My areas of experise span podiatry and psychology. With over 25 years’ experience as a clinical podiatrist, in 2014 I decided to follow my passion of understanding what motivates human behaviour and completed a Bachelor of Psychological Science at Flinders University. I then recipieved the inaugural Rotary Health Australia ANZAC PhD Scholarship to complete a PhD at the Centre for Traumatic Stress Studies, The University of Adelaide Medical School. My PhD explored the nexus between physical and mental health through exploring the impact of deployment traumatic experiences on physical and mental symptoms in deployed Australian Defence Force (ADF) personnel. My passion is to explore creative ways to expand knowledge and understanding, challenge convention, and deliver impactful outcomes that make a real difference to people’s lives. As a clinical podiatrist I have worked in a diverse range of settings including entrepreneurial business activities such as establishing the first locum podiatry service in South Australia as well as public, community, and private practice in urban and rural settings. I am still involved in private practice, which keeps me connected to contemporary issues in health practice. Good business acumen and clinical experience underpin my current role in the UniSA podiatry program. My current research interests include: · The impacts of deployment of Australian Defence Force personnel including: the overlap of physical and mental health symptoms; the association of health symptoms with suicide; and the impact of lifetime traumas on physiological dysregulation. · The use of telehealth and virtual reqality to improve outcomes and access to services in diabetes related foot disease in rural, remote, and Aboriginal and Torres Straight communities. · the impact of social determinants of health on foot ulcers and amputation rates in diabetes related foot disease. · the impact of the health practitioner-patient relationship on patient behaviour and health outcomes. · pharmacological endorsement and prescribing practices of podiatrists.
Reader in Mathematics, University of Sussex I am an applied mathematician interested in using mathematics to understand and solve problems in biology, medicine and engineering. My research is mainly concentrated in the following areas – Mathematical biology and epidemiology: the dynamics and synchronization of multi-strain infectious diseases; symmetric dynamics and equivariant bifurcations; effects of latency and temporary immunity; and adaptive dynamics and sympatric speciation. Mathematical modelling in immunology and autoimmunity: antigenic variation and interactions of antigenic variants; tunable activation thresholds and pathogen-induced autoimmunity. Delay differential equations: time-delayed feedback control; stability and synchronization in networks with time-delayed connections; distributed time delays; numerical bifurcation analysis and simulations.
Senior Researcher and Coordinator of the Small Arms Survey's Human Security Baseline Assessment project on Sudan and South Sudan, Graduate Institute – Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement (IHEID) Khristopher Carlson is a senior researcher and coordinator of the Human Security Baseline Assessment (HSBA) project for Sudan and South Sudan at the Small Arms Survey. Before joining the Small Arms Survey in 2012, Carlson was a researcher with the Feinstein International Center at Tufts University. Over the past 20 years he's led projects and conducted field research in Ethiopia, Kenya, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, Uganda, and Bosnia & Herzegovina on armed conflict, children associated with armed groups, human rights in conflict, and weapons trafficking.
Research fellow, Griffith University Katie Kelly OAM PLY is a Diversity and Inclusion Advocate, and a 2x Paralympian who won Gold in the Paratriathlon at the Rio Paralympics in 2016 and placed sixth at Tokyo (2020 / 2021). She has also won 2x Paratriathlon World Championships (2015 and 2017). Katie’s passion for diversity and inclusion in our communities, has spanned a lifetime. In 2017, Katie established Sport Access Foundation, a registered charity, providing sporting grants for young Australians living with a disability and to improve their access to sport. The impact of this Foundation is significant with to date over 500 children applying for grants across Australia. Katie's journey of living with a genetic condition, known as Usher Syndrome, is one of tenacity and grit. Living with a combination of profound hearing loss, and gradual eyesight loss, presents significant and confronting challenges. Her incredible perspective will enlighten and empower you to make a difference to the world in your own way. Katie also shares stories that highlight the inequities, and barriers faced by those with a disability in the workplace and sport. Katie is an individual with a strong sense of social justice and has thrived in her own way to improve the opportunities for women in sport, and all Australians to access sport that are living with a disability. Before her Para-triathlon career began, Katie’s worked in marketing and communications with organisations such as the NRL, ANZ Stadium, NT Government and Tabcorp. Katie works for a manufacturing company in the Social Impact and Inclusion team and continues her work as Founder and Director of Sport Access Foundation. Katie has a BA from Griffith University and Masters of Business from University of Technology, Sydney.
Assistant Professor, Loyola University Chicago Kara Ross Camarena is an Assistant Professor, who specializes in political economy of migration. Her research asks questions about how human mobility and conflict interact and considers implications for development and foreign aid. Professor Camarena’s work has been published in the American Journal of Political Science, PLOS One, and World Development. She is a faculty affiliate of the Pearson Institute for the Study and Resolution of Global Conflicts and she has done fieldwork in East Africa. Before joining Loyola University Chicago, Professor Camarena was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago. She has partnered with government and non-government organizations to evaluate migrant and development programs. Before returning to the academy, she worked in the non-profit sector in the US and in development in Tanzania.
Leading Education Professional, UNSW Sydney My research interests lie within the fields of mammalian palaeontology, taxonomy, morphology, phylogeny,ontogeny and biocorrelation. My area of special expertise is vombatomorphian marsupials (including koalas and diprotodontoids). Over the course of my research I have named new families, genera and species of marsupials including: Maradidae (Black 2007), Marada, Marada arcanum (Black 2007); Diprotodontidae, Silvabestius, Silvabestius johnnilandi,S. michaelbirti (Black & Archer 1997a); Palorchestidae, Palorchestes anulus (Black 1997); Phascolarctidae, Nimiokoala, Nimiokoala greystanesi (Black & Archer 1997b); Litokoala garyjohnstoni (Louys, Black, Archer, Hand & Godthelp 2007); Pseudocheiridae, Pseudokoala cathysantamaria (Archer, Black & Nettle 1997) .
