Professor of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, University at Albany, State University of New York Dr. Roundy studies waves of the tropical atmosphere and ocean and how these waves interact with one another and with atmospheric moist deep convection to modulate global weather and climate. Areas of emphasis include analysis of observations to study modulation of tropical cyclogenesis and the El Nino/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) by convectively coupled waves and intraseasonal oscillations.
Senior Lecturer, School of Communication, Monash University Dr Penni Russon is an award winning author of several novels for children and young adults. She brings over twenty years experience as an editor, author and researcher to her teaching and research in Writing and Publishing at UTS. As well as writing fiction, she's applied her knowledge of young adult readerships to internationally recognised collaborative research in youth mental health. Her doctoral research involved designing and developing comics for use in youth mental health. This research has taken her to conferences around the world and has positively impacted the lives of young people through online mental health service delivery in Europe and North America as well as Australia. Penni's research sits at the intersection of reading and writing, with an interest in the way texts generate meanings, in particular through readers embodied responses to gaps in the telling and the traces of the author residual in the text (such as the wobbliness of the hand drawn line in comics or the quality we call 'voice' in prose fiction). She is also interested in the way communities form around texts, whether through communities of practice in the classroom, or networking through and around literary and aesthetic reading and writing in 'intimate publics'. She is fascinated by liminality, the in-between spaces where meanings are contested and negotiated.
Individual Merit Researcher, Natural History Museum My major research interests are centred on the evolutionary palaeobiology of dinosaurs and other extinct amniotes. In addition, I am involved in projects to investigate macroevolutionary mechanisms, the evolution of Mesozoic terrestrial ecosystems and potential biases in the fossil record. Research is concentrated in three main areas: 1. Pattern and process in macroevolution. Controls on dinosaur diversity through time; testing of plant–dinosaur co-evolutionary scenarios; clade-clade interactions; correlated progression; influence of the rock record, collection bias and climate on fossil reptile diversity. 2. Functional morphology, palaeobiology and palaeoecology of herbivorous amniotes, principally sauropodomorph and ornithischian dinosaurs. 3. Taxonomic, systematic and faunal revisions of dinosaurs and other extinct reptiles (including lizards, plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs).
Research fellow, Future Of Work Lab, Faculty of Business and Economics, The University of Melbourne Peter is an experienced researcher whose interests span topics including the future of work, inclusive employment, and leadership. In his role as a Research Fellow for the Future of Work Lab, he has focussed on exploring patterns of inward migration, particularly the way remote working has influenced the movement of human capital and its potential impact on regional innovation and entrepreneurship.
PhD candidate - Behavioural Ecology and Conservation Research, University of Sydney I am a PhD student from the University of Sydney, School of Life and Environmental Sciences (SOLES) studying how we can strategically exploit plant odours to manipulate wild mammalian herbivore foraging behaviour as a conservation and wildlife management tool.
Professor of History, Auckland University of Technology I teach history, specialising in Britain's colonisation of New Zealand, and the Treaty of Waitangi.
