Professor Emeritus, Management Department, St. Mary's University Larry Haiven is Professor Emeritus in the Management Department of Saint Mary’s University, and is an acknowledged expert in the field of conflict, especially in the public sector, and particularly in health care. He was director of the Co-operative Management Education programs at Saint Mary's University. He taught industrial relations and human resource management both at SMU and the University of Saskatchewan and has published actively in these areas. In May 2018, Larry and his partner (academic and life) Judy Haiven received the Abbé Gérard Dion Award from the Canadian Industrial Relations Association to commemorate their contributions to scholarship, professional activity and community service to the field.
PhD Candidate, Social Dimensions of Health, University of Victoria Leo Rutherford is a trans activist, and PhD candidate currently studying at the University of Victoria, on the traditional territory of the lək̓ʷəŋən peoples. Leo’s work is focused on transgender health and gender-affirming care. He has worked on a number of research projects, including as a Research assistant for TransPulse Canada, and a Mitacs fellow for the Community-Based Research Centre’s Sex Now project. PROGRESS (Patient-Reported Outcomes of Genital Reconstruction and Experiences of Surgical Satisfaction) for metoidioplasty and phalloplasty is Leo’s dissertation project and the first of many more community-focused research project on the topic. Leo hopes his work creates much-needed and invaluable knowledge for the trans community about gender-affirming surgeries. Leo’s work is supported by CIHR’s Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research Transition to Leadership award.
Postdoctoral Researcher in Psychiatric Epidemiology, Karolinska Institutet Lisa Dinkler is a postdoctoral researcher in psychiatric epidemiology at the Centre for Eating Disorders Innovation (CEDI) with primary research interest in eating disorders and neurodevelopmental disorders. Her current research focuses mainly on avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID). Using epidemiological and twin designs as well as genome-wide association studies, I am trying to understand the genetic and environmental causes of ARFID, its comorbidities (e.g., with autism, ADHD, and anxiety), and its course over time.
Lisa is a lecturer at London South Bank University and teaches across Sports and Exercise Science and Biosciences degrees. As part of the Sport and Exercise Science Research Centre, Lisa focuses her study on the physiological effects of, and responses to, exercise; she conducts lab-based experimental studies and community-based health intervention research. Her main research interests include resistance training for strength and conditioning, physical activity as a countermeasure to ageing, and enhancing muscle function and exercise performance through using novel interventions.
Liam Maloney is an Associate Lecturer in Music and Sound Recording in the Music Research Centre at the University of York (UK). His research explores the intersection of dance music history, race, and sexuality as lenses to explain the socio-musicological components of house music and LGBTQ history. His other interests concern the politics of sampling, the history of music listening in everyday life, and DJ record collections.
Professor of Biology and Distinguished Arts and Science Scholar, University of Louisville I'm an evolutionary biologist and a historian of science in the Department of Biology at the University of Louisville. I have lectured about my research and my books at more than 175 venues around the world, including in New Zealand, Australia, Mongolia, Cuba, Russia, Romania, Turkey, The Czech Republic, Croatia, Taiwan, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway, and many other countries. I'm the author of twelve books and more than 200 articles, in such journals as Nature, The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and The Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, and I'm a contributing author to Scientific American, The American Scientist, The New Scientist and The Washington Post. The New York Times Book Review called my book, How to Tame a Fox and Build a Dog, "Sparkling... A story that is part science, part Russian fairy tale, and part spy thriller… it may serve — particularly now — as a parable of the lessons that can emerge from unfettered science, if we have the courage to let it unfold.”
