PhD Candidate, diet and adolescent mental health, The University of Queensland I am a PhD Candidate and Accredited Practising Dietitian researching the impact of culinary education on the psychosocial wellbeing of adolescents. My vision is to empower people to lead happy and healthy lives through education around diet and mental health. My international research portfolio spans nutrition education, nutrition in cystic fibrosis and migrant health. I have worked with organisations including American Diabetes Association, Dietitians Australia, and Hong Kong Community Dietitian Association. As an emerging educator, I have provided nutrition education both within Australia and internationally to a diverse range of audiences including people with neurodiversity and special education needs, families, allied health professionals, and First Nations people, across clinical, community, and corporate settings.
Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Nottingham Trent University Petya holds the position of Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at Nottingham Trent University. Specialising in Transport Psychology, her applied research primarily focuses on hazard perception in driving. She has published a number of journal articles and for academic and non-academic audiences. Petya is dedicated to improving hazard perception and prediction skills in both UK and international drivers. She collaborates closely with various government departments to identify effective strategies for tailoring hazard perception testing to suit the specific requirements of individual countries and their driving evaluation processes. Furthermore, Petya evaluates the development of training resources designed to encourage the safe implementation of micromobility.
NAFI Service Manager and Knowledge and Adoption Coordinator, Charles Darwin University Peter Jacklyn manages the North Australia and Rangelands Fire Information (NAFI) service, is based in Cairns and works for Charles Darwin University. He has a background in science, communication and making research and technology useable, particularly the satellite data used for rural and remote fire management. He has overseen the NAFI service www.firenorth.org.au since its inception in 2002.
Research Fellow Centre for Governance and Public Policy, Griffith University I am postdoctoral research fellow working with colleagues here and in New Zealand to understand the historical and contemporary political uses of our shared phrase 'Fair Go' in an era of growing inequality. I also investigate the way politicians try to connect everyday people to the political process through the work they do in their electorates. I use a variety of methods and approaches such as digitally assisted archival text analysis, surveys, interviews and participant observation. With my work I hope to shed light on the strengths and weaknesses of our democratic system as it currently functions and point to the ways positive change can be brought about. This is especially vital in a time when the challenges we all face are too important for us to fall back on corrosive and disempowering cynicism.
Principal Research Fellow in Archeology, UCL Patrick Sean Quinn is Principal Research Fellow in Ceramic Petrography at University College London Institute of Archaeology. He is one of the world’s leading experts on the scientific analysis of ancient ceramics and has written several textbooks on this topic. He is also a long-time skateboarder and is interested in the heritage of late twentieth-century cultural phenomena.
Senior Professor of Urban Geography, University of Wollongong I have a BA (Hons) in Geography/History, a Dip. Ed and PhD (1993) in Urban Geography from Dublin University. I am a fellow of the Academic of Social Sciences Australia (awarded 2016). I have been Director of the Australian Centre for Culture, Environment, Society and Space at the University of Wollongong since 2017, having previously been DIrector of the Centre for Urban and Regional Studies at the University of Newcastle, NSW (2006-2016). My research focusses on the changing geographies, practices and politics of urban governance, with a current focus on urban governance innovation. I am a former editor of Progress in Human Geography: an international flagship journal in the discipline.
