Senior Lecturer, College of Business and Law, RMIT University Dr Priyabrata Chowdhury is a Senior Lecturer of Supply Chain Management at the School of Accounting, Information Systems and Supply Chain (AISSC) at RMIT University. He received his PhD in Supply Chain and Logistics from RMIT University, having been funded through the RMIT PhD International Scholarship. Prior to joining RMIT University, he worked with several universities in Australia and abroad. Priyabrata researches contemporary supply chain issues to guide businesses in developing resilient and sustainable supply chains. His research interests include supply chain risk and disruption management, supply chain resilience, supply chain sustainability, and talent management in supply chains. His research articles appear in top-tier journals, including Transportation Research Part E, International Journal of Operations and Production Management, International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management, Journal of Business Research, International Journal of Logistics Management, and Journal of Cleaner Production. Priyabrata has received several teaching and research awards, including the AISSC Teaching Award, the AISSC Early Career Teaching Award and the AISSC Early Career Researcher Award.
Researcher, Sustainable Minerals Institute, The University of Queensland Dr Philip Nti Nkrumah is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Centre for Mined Land Rehabilitation (CMLR). His research primarily focuses on the biogeochemistry of trace elements (manganese, cobalt, nickel, copper, zinc, palladium and platinum) in soil-hyperaccumulator plants systems. Philip has made significant advances in knowledge in the field, including pioneering work on tropical nickel phytomining at a field-scale in Malaysia, providing a full-scale demonstration of the technology in the Asia-Pacific Region. Philip has published the outcomes of his research in leading journals, including Scientific Reports, Plant and Soil, and the Journal of Geochemical Exploration. As of August 2019, Philip has 272 citations from his 30 publications and an h-index of 9 (citation data from Google Scholar). Philip has project managed a number of industry-funded research projects on rare metallophyte plants. He is currently working on a project ‘Metallophyte plant species and ecotypes at Dugald River - A forgotten resource’ that is being funded by MMG Australia Limited (2018– 2019). He received the prestigious award of ‘UQ Early Career Researcher Grant’ to support his innovative research activities at UQ (January–December 2019). He also won the Sustainable Minerals Institute’s Excellence Award, which allowed him to undertake research in South Africa. These opportunities have enabled him to build expertise and facilities that forms the foundation of his research career. Apart from his primary research activities (including PhD student mentorship) at CMLR, Philip is also a coordinator and lecturer of the course Environmental Management in Mining at the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences at UQ.
Sessional Lecturer, Music Industry, RMIT University Dr Paige Klimentou is a sessional lecturer and tutor at RMIT University. She graduated with her PhD in 2022, and her research focuses on fandom, feminism, and archiving by looking at band tattoos in the Australian hardcore scene. She is a member of the Music Industry Research Collective (MIRC).
Assistant Professor, Biomedical Ethics, McGill University Phoebe Friesen is a philosopher and medical ethicist working at McGill University. She thinks about ethical and epistemic issues related to the production and implementation of knowledge in the health sciences, drawing on feminist philosophy of science, ethics scholarship, and methodologies from the social sciences.
University Teacher in Journalism, University of Sheffield I've been a journalist in the regional press for 20 years and I teach media law, regulation and court reporting at the University of Sheffield. My areas of interest are media law, court reporting, local newspaper industry. I have a degree in English Language and Linguistics and I am NCTJ-qualified.
