Reader in Economics, Aston University Dr. Matthew Olczak is a Reader in Economics and currently Head of the Economics, Finance & Entrepreneurship Department at Aston University. His research is in the areas of industrial organisation and competition policy and sports economics. This has been widely published in international economics and competition law journals. Furthermore, he is a co-author of a book on hub-and-spoke cartels that was published by MIT Press in 2022. He has taught microeconomics, industrial organisation, competition policy and sports economics and finance. Matthew has a keen interest in using and researching technology, in particular online games, to enhance teaching and learning. He is a Senior Fellow of Advance HE and an Associate of the Economics Network.
Membership Editor, The Conversation UK Part of the team that launched The Conversation in the UK in 2013, Michael has been its environment + energy editor, technology editor, and is now membership editor managing the membership. Previously he was for 10 years a news and features journalist covering everything from crime to culture for British newspapers and magazines, latterly Associate Editor at The Big Issue in London.
Director of Financial Planning, Deakin Business School, Deakin University Marc is a Senior Lecturer in Financial Planning and Course Director of Financial Planning in the Department of Accounting within Deakin University. Marc has significant experience within both academia and industry in the areas of financial planning, superannuation and retirement planning and accounting. He was an Authorised Representative for over 15 years and has more than 20 years of experience as one of Australia’s leading academics and educators in the financial planning discipline where he has played a key role in the development, growth and recognition of financial planning within both the university sector and the financial planning profession. He is Program Director of Financial Planning at Deakin University and plays a key role in facilitating industry engagement and strengthening the ties between the university sector and industry. Marc has published a number of articles in the areas of financial planning, superannuation and financial literacy. Marc is a founding committee member and currently Chair of the Financial Planning Education Council (FPEC), is on the TEQSA Register of External Experts in Financial Planning and Financial Services and is regularly called upon to undertake course reviews and accreditation's. He is also a co-author of one of Australia’s leading textbooks in financial planning. Marc is a Fellow of the Chartered Accountants of Australia and New Zealand and a member of the Financial Advice Association Australia .
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus Mandy Doria, MS, LPC, NCC, RYT-200 is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Registered Yoga Teacher, and Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado’s Department of Psychiatry. She is a therapist in the Stress, Trauma, Adversity, Research and Treatment (START) Center with 12 years of experience providing mental health care to children and adults in a variety of community, school, home, and college settings. In addition to CBT, DBT and ACT, Mandy incorporates mindfulness and trauma-informed mindful movement and somatic approaches into her therapeutic work and practices from a person-centered, relational, and strengths-based framework. She directs the Past the Pandemic program, which has supported the healthcare workforce since March 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and she has presented extensively on mental health education, suicide prevention, grief, mindfulness, stress management and burnout. My counseling encompasses a humanistic, grounded approach that treats the client as a whole person. I help the person uncover and be empowered to use one's own natural resources, strengths, and abilities to cope with whatever he/she is facing. I create a safe, calm and open environment that allows one to make connections, explore alternate perspectives, and promote growth and personal wellness in creative and effective ways. As a Registered Yoga Teacher, I incorporate breathing techniques, emotional regulation, meditation and mindfulness into my work with clients. I offer approaches such as CBT, DBT, Assertiveness, and other Gestalt and relational therapies. I work creatively with the person to find one's own form of expression and what works to communicate in the session. I am most effective in dealing with anxiety, depression, self esteem, relationships, and identity formation and exploration. I enjoy helping people through the phases and transitions of life.
University System of Maryland Regents Professor of Law, University of Maryland Professor Graber held a faculty position in the Department of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland, College Park, from 1993 to 2007 and taught at the University of Maryland School of Law as an adjunct professor beginning in the fall of 2002. In 2004, he was appointed Professor of Government and Law at Maryland Carey Law, a title he held until May 1, 2015, at which time he received an appointment as the Jacob A. France Professor of Constitutionalism. In 2016, he was named Regents Professor, one of only seven Regents Professors in the history of the University System of Maryland and the only Regents Professor on the UMB campus. He served as associate dean for research and faculty development from 2010 to 2013. He has also been one of the organizers of the annual Constitutional Law "Schmooze," which attracts scholars from across the country to the law school. Professor Graber is recognized as one of the leading scholars in the country on constitutional law and politics. He is the author of A New Introduction to American Constitutionalism (Oxford 2013), Dred Scott and the Problem of Constitutional Evil (Cambridge, 2006), and co-editor (with Keith Whittington and Howard Gillman) of American Constitutionalism: Structures and Powers and American Constitutionalism: Rights and Powers, both also from Oxford University Press, and co-editor with Mark Tushnet and Sandy Levinson of Constitutional Democracy in Crisis (Oxford 2018). His most recent book is Punish Treason, Reward Loyalty: The Forgotten Goals of Constitutional Reform After the Civil War (Kansas, 2023). Professor Graber is also the author of over 100 articles, including "The Non-Majoritarian Problem: Legislative Deference to the Judiciary" in Studies in American Political Development, "Naked Land Transfers and American Constitutional Development," published in the Vanderbilt Law Review and "Resolving Political Questions into Judicial Questions: Tocqueville’s Aphorism Revisited," published by Constitutional Commentary. He has been a visiting faculty member at Harvard University, Yale Law School, the University of Virginia School of Law, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Toronto, the University of Oregon School of Law, and Simon Reichman University.
Lecturer in Animation, University of Greenwich Min Young Oh has been working as an animator and animation director in a variety of formats including commercials, independent films, and documentaries. She is an award-winning director and her films have screened at numerous film festivals around the world, including eight Oscar qualifying film festivals. She is interested in storytelling and character development through imagery and movement. Her interests range from experimental animation to high end commercial films. She has been sharing her skills and knowledge with students in different universities around the world and is now settled at the University of Greenwich.
