Associate Lecturer of Criminology, La Trobe University Dr Nicole Ryan is a criminologist in the Law School at La Trobe University. She has almost a decade of experience in conducting criminological research and teaching in higher education. Doctor Ryan’s research sits at the interface between several disciplines including, criminology and criminal justice, sociology, critical social policy, rural criminology, social ecology studies, and race, culture and gender studies. Besides her interest in Indigenous justice issues and reincarceration, Nicole is currently working on two streams of research. First, she is exploring prison visitation in Australia and the impact that visitation has on the visitor, and second, she is examining the relationship between prison through-care programs and reincarceration. Dr Ryan has conducted evaluations of community justice programs and specialised court programs, and empirical research on the risk factors of reincarceration, youth justice conferencing, raising the age of criminal culpability, and public attitudes on sentencing, rehabilitation and reintegration practices. She currently serves as an expert advisor to New South Wales Corrective Services Children and Families of Offenders Steering Committee (CFOSC).
Professor of History, Quinnipiac University Nita Verma Prasad is Professor of History and Director of Asian Studies, specializing in the social history of British colonial India. She completed her undergraduate education at the University of California at Berkeley before obtaining a Master's Degree in Middle Eastern history from Georgetown University and a doctorate in South Asian history from the University of California at Berkeley. She has published on various issues in modern Indian history, including women in the British colonial courts, diasporic communities in the Indian Ocean region, Hindu-Muslim relations on the subcontinent, and intersectional analyses of Bollywood film. She is currently working on a project that examines gender within the context of the British colonial medical establishment in India.
Health & Medicine Editor Nadine Dreyer has more than 20 years' experience as a writer, columnist and editor in print and online. She has worked both in Australia and South Africa for publications including the Australian Financial Review, The Star, City Press and the Sunday Times. Her experience includes managing teams on big international stories such as the invasion of Baghdad. She has written on subjects ranging from politics and social trends to wildlife and the environment.
Adjunct Asssociate Professor, James Cook University Adjunct Associate Professor, James Cook University Adjunct Associate Professor, Charles Darwin University Director (non-Executive), Terrain NRM Ltd Director, Biome5 Pty Ltd I am a Terrestrial Ecologist with 40 years experience in tropical, arid, temperate and alpine management, research and consulting. Principal Environmental Scientist and Director of private consulting firms for over 25 years working in northern and central Australia. I also ran Discovery Ecotours for 13 years in central and northern Australia. I have broad interests in northern Australia, including fire ecology, savanna management, biodiversity, natural resource management, indigenous ecological knowledge and natural resource management in the savanna region, carbon sequestration and mitigation through reforestation, savanna burning and soil carbon sequestration. I now live in far north Queensland, and with a team have established a major reforestation project on our property for carbon and biodiversity. The plantings are designed as a fully replicated experiment, examining carbon sequestration, planting methods, soil carbon sequestration processes and a host of related studies into natural recruitment, costs of planting and maintaining, vertebrate colonisation, dung beetles, bees and flies. PhD (CDU) on Indigenous Ecological Knowledge and Land Management, MSc (Zoology, UQ) on arid fauna and habitats, BSc Earth Sciences & Ecology (MacqU).
Assistant Professor of Media Studies, University of Colorado Boulder Nathan Schneider is an assistant professor of media studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he leads the Media Economies Design Lab. His most recent book is Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life.
Post-doctoral researcher in sleep science, Victoria University Nick completed his PhD from Victoria University in 2019 where he studied the mechanisms that underpin the detrimental effects of sleep loss on metabolic health. He also investigated whether exercise could be used as a therapeutic intervention to mitigate the effects of sleep loss. Following his PhD, Nick worked at the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute where he was involved in research that investigated the benefits of exercise interventions for oncology populations. Currently, Nick is a post-doctoral researcher at Victoria University where he is studying the mechanisms that link inadequate sleep to increased risk of chronic diseases such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and dementia.
