PhD Candidate, Griffith University Murooj Yousef is a Research Fellow at Social Marketing @ Griffith passionate about behaviour change and the role of emotions in social advertisements. She is currently working with Blurred Minds, a gamified alcohol, vaping and drugs education initiative for Australian high schools. Murooj helped in engaging over 100 schools with different Blurred Minds programs and resources. Murooj's research aims to increase understanding of the role of emotions in social advertising. Murooj helps social marketers to produce more effective messages though different digital and social media channels. Murooj’s research follows the consumer journey from exposure to behavioural action, looking at how emotions drive actions online and offline. She helped in evaluating many campaigns targeted at different behaviours including reducing drink driving among young adults, increasing quality donations for Australian charities, encouraging smoking cessation through different packaging strategies and increasing the uptake of COVID-19 vaccination.
Associate Professor of Journalism, The University of Texas at Austin Mary Angela Bock is an associate professor in the University of Texas at Austin School of Journalism. She is a former journalist with an interest in photographic practice, the relationship between words and images, and digital media. She is particularly concerned with matters of truth and authenticity in the process of image production. Her work can be found in the Journal of Communication, Visual Communication Quarterly, and other publications. Her latest book, Seeing Justice: Witnessing, Crime, and Punishment (Oxford, 2021) theorizes the relationship between media and the state in the production of visual representations of crime, the courts, and justice. Seeing Justice won the Diane S. Hope Book of the Year award from the National Communication Association's Visual Communication Division. Bock also co-authored Visual Communication Theory and Research (Palgrave, 2014) with Shahira Fahmy and Wayne Wanta. Her 2012 book, Video Journalism: Beyond the One-Man Band studied the relationship between solo multi-media practice and news narrative
Associated professor, faculty of geo-information science and earth observation, University of Twente Monika Kuffer is working as Associated Professor at the Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC, University of Twente). Her main research interests are urban remote sensing, SDG monitoring, mapping deprived areas (e.g., slums), and analyzing urban form and dynamics with remote sensing and spatial statistics/metrics. She is co-chairing an international network on deprivation area mapping IDEAMAPS (https://ideamapsnetwork.org), and is presently working on two research projects related to deprivation area mapping SLUMAP (http://slumap.ulb.be) and ACCOUNT (https://slummap.net). She received her PhD from the University of Twente (NL) and one MSc in Human Geographer (TU Munich) and a second MSc in Geographic Information Science (University of London).
Associate professor, faculty of geo-information science and earth observation, University of Twente Mila Koeva is an Associate Professor at University Twente, International Institute of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation ITC, The Netherlands. Her main areas of expertise include Digital Twins/3D modelling, image data acquisition and processing techniques (satellite, aerial, and UAVs), and automatic feature extraction for cadastral mapping and urban planning, among others. More specific, her research focuses is on the implementation of innovative geospatial and machine learning methods based on remotely sensed data in support of 3D urban modelling and cadastral applications.
Professor of Geography, University of Sussex Michael Collyer is Professor of Geography at the University of Sussex. He is a political geographer with an interest in the relationship between people on the move and state institutions. His books include Migration (with Michael Samers) and Emigration Nations. He has held visiting fellowships around the world and was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Washington. He currently chairs the Independent Advisory Group on Country of Origin Information, within the Office of the UK's Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration. He also chairs Sanctuary on Sea, Brighton's City of Sanctuary group.
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Iowa State University Matthew Hill works at the intersection of archaeology, vertebrate paleontology, and ecology to address questions about the people who lived on the eastern Great Plains and Upper Midwest at the end of the last Ice Age (ca. 12,000-9,000 years ago). Current research falls into several areas, including the cause of terminal extinction or regional extinction of Ice Age animals such as muskox, moose, caribou, ground sloth, and flat-headed peccary. Other active research concerns the diet and subsistence activities of late prehistoric villagers in central Iowa, Late Paleoindian ritual practices in the western Great Lakes, colonization and settlement of the Upper Midwest, and the formation of ancient bone assemblages in fluvial contexts.
