Associate Professor and Director, Occupational Respiratory Epidemiology, The University of Western Australia Peter Franklin is a researcher with interests in environmental impacts on human health. His research has been focussed on the impacts of air pollution, predominantly indoor air pollution, on the respiratory health of children and adults. He currently heads the indoor air pollution node of the Collaborative Research Centre for Asthma and Airways. He is also the Environmental Co-ordinator of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Research on Children's Environmental Health at the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research. His research interests also involve measures of infant and pre-school lung function and how these tests can be utilised in environmental health research.
Assistant Professor and Director of Special Operations, US Army War College LTC Paul Lushenko is an Assistant Professor and Director of Special Operations at the U.S. Army War College. He earned his Ph.D. and M.A. in International Relations from Cornell University. He also holds an M.A. in Defense and Strategic Studies from the U.S. Naval War College, an M.A. in International Relations and a Master of Diplomacy from The Australian National University, and a B.S. from the U.S. Military Academy. Paul has deployed continuously, directing intelligence operations at the Battalion, Combined Task Force, and Joint Task Force levels. In his most recent operational assignment, Paul served as the Senior Intelligence Officer for the Joint Special Operations Task Force in Afghanistan, and was also responsible for shaping the coalition’s strategy to defeat the Islamic State and helping to regionalize U.S. counterterrorism policy and strategy. Paul is a Council on Foreign Relations Term Member, Adjunct Research Lecturer at Charles Sturt University, and Non-Resident Senior Fellow at Cornell University’s Tech Policy Institute. He is the co-editor of Drones and Global Order: Implications of Remote Warfare for International Society (2022), which is the first book to systematically study the implications of drone warfare on global politics. He also has a book forthcoming on the public’s perceptions of legitimate drone strikes, entitled The Legitimacy of Drone Warfare: Evaluating Public Perceptions (2024).
Emeritus professor in Computer Science and Engineering, UNSW Sydney I worked at the Garvan Insist of Medical Research for 20 years, initially as biophysicist but then as a computer scientist. At the Garvan I worked on one of the first medical expert systems to go into routine use. In 1990 I moved to Computer Science and Engineering at UNSW, where my research focus was mainly on better ways to build expert or knowledge-based systems and resulted in a family of techniques known as Ripple-Down Rules. This work was supported by a number of ARC grants, and has been successfully commercialised by Pacific Knowledge Systems (now Beamtree) and other companies internationally. I was one of the founders of PKS, but am not involved with Beamtree. I was also the Associate Dean (research) for the Faculty of Engineering at UNSW for 3 years and and head or acting head of the School of Computer Science and Engineering for 12 years. I retired in 2010 and am currently an advisor to Rich Data Corporation.
Senior Lecturer, Nottingham Law School, Nottingham Trent University Peter is a Senior Lecturer at Nottingham Law School and practising Chartered Trade Mark Attorney. Prior to joining NTU in 2020, Peter worked for a leading International Firm of Trade Mark and Patent Attorneys in their Cambridge office He is the Deputy Course Leader on the IP Practitioner Portfolio of Courses. He teaches on and is module leader on the Professional Certificate in Trade Mark Practice, a course accredited by IPREG for trainee trade mark attorneys wishing to qualify. He is also module leader on the new Postgraduate Diploma in Commercial Intellectual Property course. Peter is module leader and tutor on the Fundamentals of Intellectual Property and Contemporary Issues in Intellectual Property and Technology Law modules taught on the LLM courses. He supervises dissertations in the field of Intellectual Property. Peter continues to practice as a trade mark attorney through his work volunteering at NLS Legal where he supervises the IP case work. The IP work at NLS Legal was shortlisted in 2021 for the “best new pro-bono activity” category. Peter studied Law with German (Ba Hons) and an LLM in International Commercial Law both at the University of Nottingham. He qualified as a trade mark attorney in 2014. Prior to joining Nottingham Law School in March 2020 Peter worked for a leading International Firm of Trade Mark and Patent Attorney in their Cambridge office.
Predoctoral researcher in Psychology, Universidad del País Vasco / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea I have a BSc in Psychology from the University of Salamanca. I then obtained a MSc in General Health Psychology from the National University of Distance Education, a MA in Gender Studies from the University of Granada and the Central European University, and a MA in Philosophy from the National University of Distance Education. I am currently a predoctoral researcher in Clinical and Health Psychology at the University of the Basque Country. My research fellowship is funded by the Predoctoral Research Fellowship Programme of the Government of the Basque Country.
PhD Candidate, Faculty of Education and Research Assistant, Western University I am currently in the first year of my PhD at the Faculty of Education at Western University. I am studying the experiences of Black students at Canadian universities using oral history interviews with Black alumni--research I have continued over from my Master's degree. My MA and Bachelor's Degrees are both in history with a focus on Black history and public history. Between my MA and my PhD I worked in several public history positions including as an archivist for the London Black History Coordinating Committee and a researcher for a children's TV show called Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum.
