Distinguished Professor of Statistics, University of Wollongong Noel Cressie is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Wollongong, Australia, and Director of its Centre for Environmental Informatics in the National Institute for Applied Statistics Research Australia (NIASRA). His research interests are in data science; spatio-temporal statistics; hierarchical Bayesian modelling and computation; environmental informatics; remote sensing. He is an author and co-author of four books and more than 300 peer-reviewed articles. Noel is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, of the Royal Society of New South Wales, and a number of other learned societies. Google Scholar page: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=BTVSL8cAAAAJ&hl=en
Associate Professor of International Politics, University of Otago Nicholas Khoo (PhD, MPhil, Political Science, Columbia University; MA, International Relations, Johns Hopkins University; BA, Economics, University of California, Irvine) is Associate Professor in the Politics Programme, School of Social Sciences, University of Otago in New Zealand. His research specialization includes: Chinese foreign policy, Asian security, great power politics, security studies, international relations theory, and Cold War history.
Doctoral Student, Faculty of Education, Queen's University, Ontario I am currently completing the second year of my PhD studies in the Faculty of Education at Queen's University. My area of research is classroom assessment. Specifically, my work examines the ways in which teachers and students leverage classroom assessment to facilitate student learning. My work has been published in top education journals, such as the Journal of Educational Research, and I am currently building my academic publishing record. Prior to beginning my Master of Education studies in 2019, I was a secondary school English Language Arts teacher in the United Kingdom for 5 years.
Principal Research Fellow at the Mitchell Institute, Victoria University Since receiving my PhD in 2000, I have worked in research and policy in the areas of public health and education for academic institutions, not-for-profits, and private research companies in the United States and Australia. I have particular interests and expertise in preventive health, survey methodology and research with and about young people.
Professor of History, University of Johannesburg BA (Hons) MA University of Cape Town. PhD Cambridge University. I trained as an historian, doing my undergraduate, honours and master sdegrees at the University of Cape Town (UCT). My doctorate was completed at Cambridge University. To date, my research interests have focused on the history of the relationship between gender and mainline African Christianity, within the broader context of colonialism. This work has just been published as Convening Black Intimacy: Christianity, Gender, and Tradition in Early-Twentieth Century South Africa (Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2022). My new work is on the history of reproductive health in Africa between the 1940s and the 1990s. This work takes a comparative look at how birth control policies were rolled out across a range of different and newly-independent nation states, and about the ways in which Africans resisted and adopted the agendas of foreign donor agencies in this regard. After brief teaching stints at UCT and Rhodes University, I have been lecturing and researching at the University of Johannesburg since 1999. From 2007 to 2010 I directed the Centre for Culture and Languages in Africa. In 2011 I moved to head up Historical Studies at UJ, a position I held for five years. I am currently a professor in the department, where I have a particular interest and expertise in supervising and mentoring postgraduates. I am also a senior research associate at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.
