Professor of Business Ethics, Royal Holloway University of London Laura J. Spence is a Professor of Business Ethics in the Department of Human Resource Management and Organisational Studies, Royal Holloway, University of London. She has previously held the posts of Associate Dean (Research) supporting the School of Business and Management and the School of Law and Social Sciences, Director for the Centre for Research into Sustainability and School Director of Impact. In 2023, Professor Spence was conferred the honour of Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. She was a REF2021 Sub-Panel Member for Business and Management Studies. At the University of Oxford, Professor Spence is an International Research Fellow at the University of Oxford Centre for Corporate Reputation, and Visiting Fellow at Kellogg College. Laura's research interests relate to a wide range of management studies issues, in particular, critical corporate social responsibility, small business social responsibility, supply chain sustainability and a critique of Creating Shared Value. She uses moral and social theory in her research, favouring qualitative and conceptual studies. Laura has a particular interest in the place of gender and feminist perspectives in business ethics and corporate social responsibility research and practice. She is developing work on SMEs and climate action, particularly in relation to NetZero.
Associate Professor of Holocaust, Film & Cultural Studies, Sapir Academic College Liat Steir-Livny is an Associate Professor at Sapir Academic College and the Open University of Israel. She teaches in the Department of Culture at Sapir Academic College, the Cultural Studies MA program, and the Department of Literature, Language, and the Arts at the Open University of Israel. Her research focuses on Holocaust commemoration in Israel from the 1940s until the present. It combines Holocaust Studies, Memory Studies, Cultural Studies, Trauma Studies, and Film studies. She is the author of many articles and six books.
Assistant Professor of Nutrition, Texas State University Lauren Butler is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist and serves as an Assistant Professor in the Nutrition and Foods Program at Texas State University. Butler holds a doctoral degree in Nutrition from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health, where she was trained as a nutrition epidemiologist. Butler completed postdoctoral work with the University of Florida’s Health Disparities Research and Intervention Program, where she conducted community- engaged research and interventions. Butler’s research aims to advance social justice and health equity through weight-inclusive and non-diet behavioral health interventions. She utilizes a mixed methods systems-approach to develop population-specific strategies to eliminate weight stigma, heal body image and disordered eating behaviors, and improve cardiometabolic health among marginalized communities. Butler leads the Food Freedom Research Team through which she mentors graduate and undergraduate students to address internal and external fatphobia, healthism, ableism, racism, weight bias and mental health stigma. Her recent work includes understanding perspectives on using a weight-inclusive approach to address body image concerns and disordered eating among LGBTQ+ community members.
Postdoctoral Research Associate, School of Architecture, Design and Planning, University of Sydney Laura is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning at the University of Sydney.
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Western Michigan University Dr. Lauren Foley is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science and director of the Capital Internship Program at Western Michigan University. She is the author of On the Basis of Race: How Higher Education Navigates Affirmative Action Policies, (NYU Press, forthcoming 2023). Her work has also appeared in Studies in Law, Politics, and Society and the Journal of Law and Education. She was admitted into the Michigan Bar Association in 2009.
PhD Candidate, University of Sydney My research is centred around building a better understanding of the physiological and physical factors that determine human heat strain and the risk of heat-related health problems during work, physical activity and heat waves.
