Melbourne School of Design, The University of Melbourne Melissa is a multidisciplinary designer and educator working across various technologies and scales. She works at the intersection of architecture and digital storytelling to investigate its shared experiential ground. She has produced, contributed and exhibited work at Ars Electronica Festival, Vivid Festival Sydney, The Grainger Museum and The David Roche Foundation. Melissa has taught architecture design studios at RMIT and MSD, Melbourne University. She is currently a Research Assistant as part of the Advanced Digital Design + Fabrication (ADD+F) hub and holds the position of Experimental Technology Coordinator at NExT LAB, Melbourne School of Design & Architecture, The University of Melbourne. M.Arch School of Architecture and Urban Design, RMIT University
Professor, La Trobe University Melodie McGeoch is an ecologist that works on biodiversity change, combining theory and analytics to address central environmental challenges, including climate change impacts and biological invasions. She works across taxa and regions, including in the Antarctic, is active in the translation of science for biodiversity policy and holds multiple professional leadership positions in Australia and internationally.
Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Adelaide MARK STEVENS – history With Adelaide as my hometown I enjoyed playing sports most of the time through school years. Not knowing what I wanted to do I naturally gravitated to university where I graduated with Bachelor of Science (Hons) at Flinders University in 1998. I then did what most considered was an oxymoron and migrated with my ‘soon to be’ wife to New Zealand to undertake a PhD at The University of Waikato followed by Postdoctoral Research at Massey University with a 6-month fellowship with CNRS in Paris in 2008. By this time we had two wonderful ‘kiwi’ kids and had become stout ‘All Blacks’ fans! In September 2008 I began my current research position at the South Australian Museum (clearly free baby-sitting was the motivation at the time). At the South Australian Museum, I enjoy collaborating with researchers from Flinders University and The University of Adelaide (where I am an Assoc Prof affiliate) that have provided excellent research facilities, and opportunities to co-supervise honours and PhD students. This has been possible through research grants from the Australia Pacific Science Foundation to study bee diversity and evolution in the South West Pacific. Recent ARC success in 2021 has come with a 7-year funded ARC Special Research Initiative hosted by Monash University “Securing Antarctica's Environmental Future” (https://arcsaef.com/). Some stats on me if you like numbers: since 2003 I have a h-index of 38 and an i10 of 101 from 181 publications with over 5423 citations (see Google Scholar for publication list: https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=Zhnqx9IAAAAJ&hl=en).
Associate Professor of Ethnology, Stockholm University Reader/associate professor in ethnology with an interest in collective memory processes, difficult cultural heritage and issues at the intersection between nature and culture. Coordinate the Critical Heritage Studies Network (CHSN) at Stockholms universitet. In my thesis, I analyzed social hierarchies in (re)production of contemporary royalty in Sweden. By studying arenas where royalty was present, I showed how social authority was pruduced at the intersection between notions of exclusivity and commonness. The analysis also demonstrated the symbolic and actual importance of the material in the exercise of power, and how rituals forms social superiority.
Cognition and Behavior Lab, Aarhus University Research areas: Cultural forms of expression: humour, jokes, storytelling Culture and cognition: biocultural studies Film theory: cognitive film theory Text theory and analysis: cognitive literary studies, evolutionary literary studies Video genres: comedy
Associate Professor, School of Art, RMIT University With a 25 year history of art and justice practice in both Canada and Australia, Marnie’s research sits at the intersection of socially-engaged art practice, participatory methodologies and the politics of cultural measurement Through aesthetic forms of encounter and exchange and a focus on relational ethics, Marnie’s practice brings together disparate groups of people (artists, communities, industry, local government) in dialogue to examine and affect local issues. Marnie is Associate Professor at the School of Art, RMIT University.
