PhD Candidate in Communication, Arizona State University I am a Doctoral Candidate and Graduate Teaching Associate in the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at Arizona State University. I am a multi-method social scientist who studies Human-Machine Communication, Human-AI Communication, and the social impact of communication technologies. I use qualitative, quantitative, and rhetorical methods including interviews, textual analysis, thematic analysis, surveys, and experiments. My work integrates methods, concepts, and theories from a variety of disciplines and areas including communication studies, critical/cultural studies, human-computer and human-robot interaction, as well as sexuality studies. Currently, I am working on my PhD with a focus on how humans build relationships with machines such as social robots and AI technologies. In particular, my dissertation uses qualitative methods to explore human-machine relationality (how humans form relationships with machines like robots). My research has been published in a variety of academic journals such as Human Communication Research, Human-Machine Communication, Review of Communication, and in book chapters published by Routledge and SAGE (forthcoming). My article "Persuasion in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (AI): Theories and Complications of AI-based Persuasion" received the 2022 Outstanding Article Award from the Human Communication and Technology Division of the National Communication Association. In June 2022, I was featured on the National Communication Association’s Podcast Series “Communication Matters” on the topic of alternative academic careers for communication graduate students. In October 2022, I was featured on the German science communication portal Wissenschaftskommunikation.de in an interview about the topic of transformation.
Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney Matthew Walsh is an Anaiwaan man and early career academic at the Faculty of Law University of Technology Sydney. Matthew's career has seen him lead a number of programs in Indigenous policy engagement and implementation across the government, higher education, corporate and not-for-profit sectors.
Research Fellow in Palaeontology, University of Portsmouth I'm a palaeontological author, artist and researcher based on the south coast of the UK and affiliated with the University of Portsmouth. I'm best known for my research on pterosaurs and, more recently, my contributions to palaeoart - the evidence-led restoration of extinct organisms in drawings, paintings, sculpture and film. My background is based more in scientific research than writing and artistry. I obtained my PhD from the University of Portsmouth in 2008 after three years of studying pterosaurs, the flying reptiles contemporaneous with non-avian dinosaurs. I remain active in pterosaur research, but since completing my thesis I've found myself employed more as an artist and consultant on the life appearance of extinct animals than as a traditional academic. My career has thus shifted focus to reconstructing extinct animals, and I now spend more of my time considering the history, methods and technical details of this topic than flying reptiles. I've been lucky to impart some of this knowledge to major media clients, with my creature designs and input being used by the BBC, National Geographic, Royal Mail and the Royal Mint. Alongside my papers, books and book chapters on palaeoart, I also post regularly about palaeoart topics at my blog. My artwork has been displayed around the world in venues such as the Natural History Museum, American Museum of Natural History, Yale Peabody Museum and London's South Bank.
Research Officer, Resilience Development Initiative (RDI) Gemilang is a research officer at the Children, Social Welfare, and Health (CSWH) cluster at the Resilience Development Initiative. He is interested in researching coastal community resilience, post-disaster reconstruction, and climate change adaptation. Prior to joining RDI, he has over 3 years of experience as a junior anthropology researcher working on baseline research, monitoring and evaluation projects, academic research, and more.
Professor of Women's Studies and Political Studies, Mount Saint Vincent University My research work has been mainly in the areas of women and politics, slut-shaming and sex work in Canada and the Philippines. In my new book, Slut-Shaming, Whorephobia, and the Unfinished Sexual Revolution published by McGill-Queen's University Press in June, I examine the common denominators between the #MeToo movement, the myths of rape culture, and the pleasure gap between men and women to reveal the ways that sexually liberated women threaten the traditional patriarchy. Weaving in history, pop culture, philosophy, interviews with sex workers, and anecdotes, I show how women will achieve sexual equality only when the sexual double standard and good girl/bad girl binary are eliminated and women viewed by society as “whores” are destigmatized. Illustrating how women’s sexuality is policed by both men and women, I argue that women must be allowed the same personal autonomy as men: the freedom to make sexual decisions for themselves, to obtain orgasm equality, and to insist on their own sexual pleasure. Dispelling the myth that all sex workers are victims and all clients are violent, the book calls out Western society’s hypocrisy about sex and shows how stigma and the marginalization of sex workers harms all women.
Lecturer in Food Science and Technology, Obafemi Awolowo University I obtained B. Tech in Food science from Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, Nigeria in 2007; M.Sc and Ph.D in Food Science and Technology from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile- Ife in 2012 and 2016 respectively. I was employed as an Assistant lecturer in the Department of Food Science and Technology, Obafemi Awolowo university, Ile - Ife, Nigeria on March 3rd, 2014. I am presently a Senior lecturer. I am a Member of Nigerian Institute of Food Science and Technology (MNIFST: 06/3804/SM); American Society for Microbiology (ASM ID: 54501388) and Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD) (OWSD: 5174)
