Deputy Head of the School of History and Archaeology, University of Winchester Dr Katherine Weikert is Senior Lecturer in Early Medieval European History and Deputy Head of the School of History and Archaeology. Her first monograph, Authority, Space and Gender in the Norman Conquest Era, c. 900-c. 1200, was short-listed for the Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion from the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain. Her main areas of research examine the connections between gender, space and authority in England and Normandy ca 900-1200, and the political uses of the medieval past.
Adjunct Associate Professor, Queensland University of Technology Kate Williams is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Early Childhood & Inclusive Education at QUT and is currently the Executive Manager of Operations for Play Matters Australia. Kate has a PhD in early childhood development, and is also a Registered Music Therapist. She has published more than 60 papers on children’s social emotional development, early learning, early childhood education and care, and parenting. Kate has undertaken a range of contracted research reports and evaluations for government, with a focus on longitudinal quantitative data.
Brunel University London Dr. Gustafson is Reader in Intelligence & War at Brunel University's Centre for Intelligence and Security Studies. After an MA at the University of Alberta, Canada, he moved to the UK to take his PhD at Downing College, Cambridge. Before coming to Brunel, Dr. Gustafson was senior lecturer in War Studies at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. He has served in the Canadian Army and as a Reservist in the British Army, and taught at the Joint Services Command and Staff College of the United Kingdom. He is also an Associate Researcher in the Norwegian Intelligence School's Centre for Intelligence Studies. Dr. Gustafson has conducted consultancy and advisory work for the UK MOD as well as for TV and film. Dr. Gustafson has delivered professional development courses to multiple Allied and partner organisations, including the EU Intelligence Centre, and the governments of Norway, Latvia, France and the United Arab Emirates. In 2013 he worked as an intelligence advisor for the General Command Police Special Units (GCPSU) of the Afghan Ministry of Interior.
Research Assistant, University of Newcastle Currently working as a casual Senior Research Assistant at the University of Newcastle providing statistical help to researchers. Prior to that worked as a part time statistical consultant and consulting unit manager. Statistical consultant 2003 to 2006 then consulting unit manager 2007 to 2020. Lecturing and tutoring statistics to first year business students and 2nd year chemical engineering students 2000 - 2004 Analytical Chemist & Statistical Consultant Analytical chemist about 22 years then moved into consulting in total quality management and statistical consulting for the next 9 years. 1968 - 1999
Associate Professor, School of Pharmacy, University of Waterloo Dr. Grindrod is a pharmacist and pharmacy professor at the University of Waterloo School of Pharmacy. Dr. Grindrod completed her BScPharm at the University of Alberta, her Masters and Doctoral degrees in pharmacy at the University of British Columbia, and a hospital pharmacy residency at the the London Health Sciences Centre. Here work focuses on using technology to educate healthcare providers and the public on the use of medicines, including drugs and vaccines.
Principal Investigator in Neuroscience, Inserm Kathleen received her B.S. with Honors in Neuroscience and a B.A. in History at Brown University. At MIT, she studied learning and memory mechanisms in the visual cortex in Mark Bear's laboratory and earned a Ph.D. in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences. She joined Vikaas Sohal's laboratory at UCSF as a postdoctoral fellow, to study the mechanisms of functional circuits in the context of mental illness. Currently, she is a principal investigator at the Paris Brain Institute (ICM) by way of Inserm, investigating the role of perisomatic inhibition on prefrontal cortex neurons in gamma oscillations and cognitive flexibility.
