Associate professor, Curtin University Madeleine Dobson is an Associate Professor at Curtin University. Her teaching, research, and engagement focus on Early Childhood Education & Care. Madeleine is an Associate Investigator for the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child and an Ambassador for the Valuing Children Initiative. Her research interests include media, digital technologies, social justice, children’s rights, and trauma-informed + caring practices across educational contexts.
Associate Professor, National Drug Research Institute, Curtin University Associate Professor Michael Livingston joined the NDRI Melbourne office in 2021. He is one of Australia's leading alcohol policy researchers, with a significant national profile and a long history of success in obtaining major grants. He has published over 200 papers across a range of topics, focussing largely on evaluating the impacts of alcohol policy changes at the population level, ensuring data on alcohol consumption and related harms are as robust as possible and trying to unpack the drivers of trends in population drinking, particularly among young people. He has received a series of major awards, incluing an NHMCR Research Excellence Award in 2016. Livingston was a member of the NHMRC's Alcohol Working Committee, tasked with revising the national low risk drinking guidelines (launched in 2020), and is on the AIHW's Technical Advisory Group for the National Drug Strategy Household Survey.
Associate Deputy Director, Indigenous Leadership and Engagement, and senior researcher, Menzies School of Health Research Mark Mayo is a Darwin local and graduate of Charles Darwin University. Mark has worked on many research projects during his time at the Menzies School of Health Research from malaria and melioidosis to petrol sniffing and childhood ear diseases. For over 14 years Mark has been researching melioidosis, a potentially fatal tropical disease found in the tropical areas of Northern Australia. Mark’s research into this disease covers many different aspects, from early detection of the disease in hospital and clinical settings, to understanding the environmental niche of the bacteria and the potential exposure risks to people and animals in an endemic region.
PhD Candidate, Impact Fellow (Green Futures Solutions), University of Exeter Dr. Martina Egedusevic specializes in employing nature-based solutions that utilize natural processes to tackle environmental challenges. She provides expertise in managing flood risks, disaster risk reduction, and related environmental concerns. Born in Trebinje, Bosnia & Herzegovina, where she completed her secondary education, she later pursued university studies in Belgrade, Serbia, and earned her Ph.D. from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland. Currently an Impact Fellow at the University of Exeter’s Land, Environment, Economics, and Policy Institute (LEEP), Dr. Egedusevic’s research has focused on the role of woodland creation in mitigating flood risks in Scotland. Her early career began as a flood protection engineer at Srbijavode in Serbia, working on flood hazard mapping and mitigation strategies. She later joined the SENSUM project, investigating natural hazards like landslides and debris movement. Her consultancy work at ARUP further expanded her expertise in climate adaptation and environmental risk management across the UK. Dr. Egedusevic’s career is marked by a deep commitment to using sustainable, nature-based solutions to enhance environmental resilience and disaster risk reduction globally.
Head, Experimental Gambling Research Lab, CQUniversity Australia Prof. Matthew Rockloff received a Ph.D. in psychology from Florida Atlantic University in 1999. Dr Rockloff is Head of the Experimental Gambling Research Laboratory at CQUniversity. Dr. Rockloff has been honoured as a Jack Walker Scholar and twice as an Aurel B. Newell Fellow. Dr Rockloff was named in the Top 10 Unijobs Lecturer of the Year Awards in 2012, 2013 and 2014.
Senior Lecturer in Statistics, CQUniversity Australia Dr Matthew Browne is a lecturer and mathematical psychologist at CQUniversity and biostatistician in the Institute for Social Science Research. He has 10 years experience in applied statistics for the biological and social sciences, and has published 33 peer-reviewed papers as journals, book chapters, client reports and conference proceedings. He has led major grant-based projects funded by the SMRJ (Japan), Australia-Japan Foundation, and the DIISR. His research interests involve the application of mathematical methods to address questions relating to human behaviour and cognitive function. His current projects include assessing player expertise via modelling the distribution of betting returns, and the investigation of explanatory factors for individual differences in gambling consumption.
