Professor of Retail Studies and Deputy Principal, University of Stirling I am Professor of Retail Studies and Deputy Principal at the University of Stirling. I was a geography undergraduate at the University of Cambridge, and completed my Ph.D (on retail employment) at the University of Wales. I have been professor of retail studies at Stirling since 1992. I was a Visiting Professor at Florida State University, Tallahassee from July 2000 to July 2001, and Visiting Professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville from June to December 2006. I undertake research into aspects of retailing, mainly for personal curiosity, but also on behalf of public and private clients and for the research councils and other funding bodies, as well as for major retailers. I have authored and edited a number of books, have published over 125 refereed journal articles as well as many practitioner, trade and newspaper pieces. In 2012-2013 I was a member of the External Advisory Group for the Scottish Government’s National Review of Town Centres and also on the Expert Advisory Group reporting to the Scottish Government on the lessons to be learned from the horsemeat scandal. My recent policy work has been as the Chair (and Author) of the Review of the Town Centre Action Plan (2020-21) for the Scottish Government (review published as A New Future for Scotland’s Town Centres). I was also a member of the Scottish Government’s 2020-21 Social Renewal Advisory Board (report published as If Not Now, When?) and was a member and workstream leader of the Scottish Government’s 2020-21 Ministerial Retail Strategy Steering Group (published as Getting the Right Change – a Retail Strategy for Scotland). I am currently a member of Economic Impact and Price Expert Advisory Group on Minimum Unit Pricing of Alcohol for Public Health Scotland (2018-2023) and a Steering Board member of the Scottish Grocer Federation’s “Go Local” project (with Scotland Food and Drink, the Scottish Government and Public Health Scotland). He is one (of three) University of Stirling members on the Stirling and Clackmannanshire City Region Deal Joint Committee and a member of the High Streets Task Force Professional, Research and Data Group. I am currently Chair of the Scotland’s Towns Partnership. I run a blog on things retail, typically Scottish: www.stirlingretail.com
Associate Vice Chancellor, University of Tennessee Lynne E. Parker, a native Knoxvillian, is Associate Vice Chancellor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK), and Director of the AI Tennessee Initiative, which is positioning the University and the state of Tennessee as a national and global leader in the data-intensive knowledge economy. Prior to this role, she led national artificial intelligence (AI) policy efforts for four years (2018-2022) in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, serving as Deputy Chief Technology Officer of the United States, Founding Director of the National AI Initiative Office, and Assistant Director for AI. She also served as co-chair of the Congressionally-directed National AI Research Resource Task Force, which is working to democratize access to the computational and data infrastructure needed for AI research. She served for two years (2015-2016) at the National Science Foundation as Division Director for Information and Intelligent Systems. In these roles across three Administrations, she led the development of numerous landmark national AI policies bolstering research, governance, education and workforce training, international engagement, and the Federal use of AI. Dr. Parker joined the UTK faculty in 2002 and is an expert on distributed and intelligent robot systems, human-robot interaction, and AI, having published extensively in these and related areas. She previously worked for several years as a Distinguished Research and Development Staff Member and Group Leader at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, researching multi-robot and human-robot systems. Dr. Parker has served on many government advisory boards, including the National Academies' Intelligence Science and Technology Experts Group (ISTEG), National Research Council's (NRC) committee on persistent surveillance for the counter-IED mission, NRC Panel for Review of the Engineering Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), NRC Panel on Mechanical Science and Engineering at the Army Research Laboratory (ARL), NRC Advisory Panel on Information Science at ARL, NRC Advisory Panel on Air and Ground Vehicle Technology at ARL, and NRC Advisory Panel on Armor and Armaments at ARL. Dr. Parker was also a member of the 2004-2005 class of the Defense Science Study Group (DSSG). She has received numerous awards for research, teaching, and service, including the U.S. Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) and the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Robotics and Automation Society’s George Saridis Leadership Award in Robotics and Automation. She is a Fellow of AAAI (Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence), AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science), and IEEE; and a Distinguished Member of ACM (Association for Computing Machinery). Dr. Parker earned a B.S. from Tennessee Technological University, an M.S. from the University of Tennessee, and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, all in computer science.
Assistant Professor of Management, Information Systems and Entrepreneurship, Washington State University I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Management, Information Systems, and Entrepreneurship at Washington State University’s Carson College of Business. I received my Ph.D. in Organization and Management from the Paul Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine in Spring 2022. My research primarily examines organizational behavior and entrepreneurship at the micro level, and I am currently focusing on questions related to how emotions and emotion management influence entrepreneurial pitches, creativity, and decision making. My research won the Best Paper Award and the Distinguished Paper Award from the Academy of Management annual meeting 2021. I am also passionate about teaching. I have taught organizational behavior as part of the core curriculum for undergraduate business majors and assisted in several MBA or undergraduate courses. I won the Outstanding PhD Instructor Award for the undergraduate program at the Paul Merage School of Business for the 2020-2021 academic year. Prior to graduate school, I earned my bachelor’s degree from Johns Hopkins University with double major in psychology and economics. I also conducted research at the Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health, and the Study of Business Enterprise at Johns Hopkins University and worked at a consulting firm in Washington D.C. In a former life, I was a singer, lyricist, and ran a music composition club.
I am a chartered psychologist with more than 10 years experience in public health research. I am a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and an associate fellow of the British Psychological Society. My research expertise is around patient experience and access to care. My particular interest is around antipsychotic withdrawal and people being offered the support they need. As a qualitative researcher, I am interested in the use of qualitative methods and the role they can play to explore ways of improving the patient experience and outcomes and patient involvement in the care process.
Teaching Fellow/Clinical nurse specialist, Victoria University of Wellington I graduated as a nurse in 1996 from the University of Nottingham and have worked in the Intensive care specialist area all my career. I have worked in Wellington ICU since 2004 where I have progressed through the career pathway to Expert level and worked briefly as an ICU flight retrieval nurse. In 2012 I graduated from Victoria University of Wellington with a Masters in clinical nursing. From 2009 I became an Associate Charge Nurse Manager (ACNM) managing and coordinating ICU services. Through these years I have led several projects improving the quality of patient care in the ICU and have published in several critical care journals. For the past 4 years I have been a guest lecturer going on to become a teaching fellow with Victoria University of Wellington post graduate Nursing programme as well as being the Clinical Nurse Specialist in Wellington ICU.
Lecturer, Bond University Libby Sander, Bachelor of Arts (Japanese), Bachelor of Business, Master HRM, Fellow AIM, is the founder and director of the Future of Work Project, founder of Rethink, and past Chair of Goldspaces an urban renewal and cultural development platform. Libby is a Lecturer at Bond University, published author and works with clients such as Microsoft Europe, Lend Lease and the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games Corporation. She has won awards from the Academy of Management in the US and presented her research at the world's leading academic conferences. Libby is currently co-authoring a book on the changing context of work which will be published by Emerald in 2017. She is regularly featured on radio and in national media including The Australian, Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, ABC, SBS and Radio National commenting on issues on work, society and future trends in organisations. Libby has appeared on ABC TV’s science program Catalyst, and has spoken at TEDx. She is also a freelance feature writer and her work has been featured on the World Economic Forum site.
