Emeritus Professor - History, La Trobe University Richard Broome AM is Emeritus Professor in History at La Trobe University and President of the Royal Historical Society of Victoria. He is the author of 16 books, including Aboriginal Australians. A History since 1788 5th edition (2019) and Aboriginal Victorians. A History since 1800 (2005). He has consulted for the RCADIC, Museums Victoria and The National Museum of Australia.
Professor of Statistics, University of Auckland I am a Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. My research focuses on statistics with applications to conservation, ecology, and animal behaviour.
Professor, Social Work, University of Toronto Ramona Alaggia’s work is focused on mitigating the long term effects of trauma, violence and abuse on children and youth. Through her studies on gender and violence; child sexual abuse disclosures and mental health effects; intimate partner violence and structural barriers she promotes ways to foster resilience processes in children and youth exposed to violence, and advocates for the use of trauma informed approaches for service delivery. Dr. Alaggia holds the Margaret and Wallace McCain Family Chair in Child and Family, contributing to leadership in research and evaluation on the wellbeing of children, youth and their families. This Chair supports prevention and intervention programs, and helps develop new innovative models of service to enhance children’s mental health. The Chair provides training on trauma and resilience informed approaches to children’s mental health services for ensuring leading edge research for families, communities and systems to support the optimal growth of children.
Robrecht Declercq is a postdoctoral researcher at the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO) since the 1st of October 2017 and is affiliated with the History Department of Ghent University. His main research interests include business, global economics, and environmental history. He teaches on economic and environmental history. In February 2015, Declercq defended his PhD on the global connections of the Leipzig Fur Industry at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence. This PhD research examined how a local industrial district – like the Leipzig fur industry – characterised by many small to medium-sized businesses successfully operated on the world market in the period between 1870 and 1939. It bridges the interior-based research tradition on industrial districts with that of global economic history. In 2016, his research was nominated for the Best Dissertation Award in Bergen (Norway), by the European Business History Association (EBHA). As of June 2017, the PhD has been published as a book by Routledge, titled “World Market Transformation: Inside the German Fur Capital Leipzig 1870 – 1939”. His current research project is also situated at the crossroads of business and global economic history, examining the impact of nationalizations in the copper industry (Central Africa and Latin America) on the global political economy.
A former law lecturer with a Masters in Legal Studies, Dr Shanks moved from employment and welfare rights work to lifelong learning and teacher professional learning over 15 years ago. She is currently one of the editors of Human Rights Education Review and is an Associate Director of the Scottish Graduate School of Social Science.
