PhD Candidate in Sustainable Travel, Bournemouth University Rama Permana is a PhD Candidate studying sustainable tourism travel. His PhD project explores how to better sustainability transitions in rural tourism transport, focusing on Bali as a major Global South destination. Rama is also working as a research assistant in Bournemouth University on research projects related to sustainability. One of the projects is Future Flight in Place, exploring public perceptions on how electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) air taxi could be useful for the movement of people and goods.
Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Irvine Roxanne Varzi is an ethnographer, writer, artist, filmmaker, playwright, dyslexia advocate and Full professor of Anthropology at the University of California Irvine. She holds a PhD in Anthropology from Columbia University, was the first Fulbright scholar to Iran since the Revolution, A Woodrow Wilson Scholar and the youngest Distinguished Senior Iranian Visiting Fellow at St. Antony’s College, Oxford University. She is working on a graphic novel and a Murder Mystery series that teaches anthropology, book one, Death in a Nutshell: an Anthropology Whodunnit came out this fall. Her writing has been published in The London Review of Books, Le Monde Diplomatique, The Annals of Political and Social Science, Feminist Review, Public Culture, American Anthropologist. She is the author of Warring Souls: Media, Martyrdom and Youth in post-Revolution Iran, Duke University Press, 2006 and the 2016 Independent Publishers Gold Medal winning novel Last Scene Underground: An Ethnographic Novel of Iran Stanford University Press and on audible. Her film, Plastic Flowers Never Die, 2009 is distributed by Documentary Educational Resources and has been shown in Festivals all over the world. Her short stories have appeared in the New York Press and Anthropology and Humanism for which she won a first place short fiction award and in three anthologies of Iranian-American writing and are anthologized in four books of Iranian-American writing. Her multi-media sound and video projects, Whole World Blind, No Wings to Fly to God and Salton Sublime address war and climate change. Her first play Splinters of a Careless Alphabet about French philosopher Henry Corbin and the Iranian Revolution is being developed as a graphic novel and her second play, Yalda: an Iranian Twelfth Night was recently directed by Eli Simon in a reading at the New Swan Shakespeare Center at UCI.
Senior Lecturer in Professional Practice and Architectural Design, University of Sydney Dr Rebecca McLaughlan is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Sydney and a Registered Architect, currently serving as the Academic Member on the New South Wales Architects Registration Board. Rebecca’s research explores the ways that architecture embodies care by examining lived experiences and perceptions of the built environment; and the processes through which architects create environments capable of extending care through their contributions to end user wellbeing. She recently completed an ARC DECRA Fellowship examining the ways the built environment can support experiences of palliative care for patients, families and staff.
Associate Professor of Business Administration, University of Virginia How much money will you spend next week? If you’re like most people, you will substantially under-predict your future spending when you answer this question. In my research on financial decision making, I try to understand why so many people make mistakes like this, then I use those insights to develop simple strategies that help them improve their financial outcomes. My work in this area has earned awards from the Behavioral Insights Group at Harvard University, the Society for Consumer Psychology, the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, the Think Forward Initiative, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. In my other research, I examine the causes and consequences of gender bias and media influence. I am currently an Assistant Professor of Marketing in the Mays Business School at Texas A&M University. I earned my PhD in Marketing and Behavioral Science from the University of British Columbia in 2020, and my BA in International Economics and Finance from Ryerson University in 2014. Prior to that, I spent ten years managing business operations for internationally acclaimed hotels, restaurants, and an opera house. My full CV is available here: https://mays.tamu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/CHUCK_HOWARD_CV_JUNE_09_2022.pdf
