PhD candidate, education and identity, Victoria University Preeti is researching how teachers navigate their identities, institutional identities and students’ identities when engaging with anti-racist policies and practices in schools. This is borne out of the intersections of her lived experiences as a migrant Woman of Colour, a teacher and school leader of two decades. She works as an educational, school policy and curriculum consultant. Her short story 'A Tangle of Tenses' will be published in 'Growing Up Indian in Australia' in July 2024. Preeti is also a playwright, an actor and producer. Her ten minute, one woman play 'Ganna Ki Kethi' (Sugarcane Farming) set in a remote part of Fiji, was awarded 'Best Production' by the judges in the West of Melbourne Performing Arts Festival 2024. Photo credit: Jess D'Cruze
PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology, University of British Columbia Parker Muzzerall is PhD Candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of British Columbia. His research focuses on how environmental, climate, and energy issues intersect with culture. His work has appeared in publications such as American Behavioural Scientists, Energy Policy, Policy Options, and Contexts Magazine.
Academic and treaty negotiator, University of the Witwatersrand Precious Matsoso is the former director-general of the South African National Department of Health. She was the World Health Organisation director of public health innovation and intellectual property. She was the head of the medicines regulatory authority of South Africa for six years. She has served on various advisory bodies both nationally and internationally and was chair of the WHO executive board. She served as a member of the UN High-Level Panel on Access to Health Technologies, and chairperson of the Independent Oversight and Advisory Committee for the WHO Health Emergencies Programme. She was a member of the Lancet Global Health Commission on High Quality Health Systems, co-chair of the WHO Digital Health Advisory Group and a member of the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response. She is currently the director of the Health Regulatory Science Platform, a division of the Wits Health Consortium, and an honorary lecturer in the Department of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, University of the Witwatersrand. She is the co-chair of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body for the development of a legal instrument, a Pandemic Convention, or Treaty. She is appointed adjunct professor at Sunway University, Malaysia.
PhD Candidate at MECADEV (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique/Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle), Sorbonne Université My thesis aims to quantify and explain the variability of elephant trunk behaviour using ethology and biomechanics. In other words, whether at individual, population or species level, can the performance of the trunk, in terms of manipulation, be explained by its behaviour, shape, trajectory, speed or strength? To answer this question, interdisciplinary procedures are used to acquire and analyse data. This project will enrich the discussion around fundamental biological and ecological questions. At the end of the project, thanks to a transfer of knowledge to bio-inspired robotics, all this new data will help to design a prototype prehensile trunk capable of reproducing the movement of the elephant trunk.
Research Fellow in Microbiology, Monash University I am a postdoctoral research fellow in Prof. Chris Greening lab in Department of Microbiology, Monash University. My primary interest is to understand how microorganisms in the environment survive under different conditions, and in turns modulate our environments and climate.
Senior Lecturer in Politics, Governance and Development, Global Development Institute, University of Manchester Dr. Pritish Behuria is a senior lecturer in politics, governance and development at the University of Manchester’s Global Development Institute. His research examines the political economy of late development under contemporary globalisation. To read more about some of his research on industrial policy, please see his work on Rwanda in [Development and Change](https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/dech.12498 "") and [Journal of International Development](https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jid.3375?casa_token=5BJIagGWRJUAAAAA:O-HR1xr56IvbgZAJhn99BhozUVRqqR16pe0UAQXWLUhMF71NZeUxBD-PbTo0tm88sSwmzV5meAlLuEiu ""). For his work on Uganda, see his work in [Oxford Development Studies](https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13600818.2021.1960296 "")
