Acting Head of Environmental Justice, Centre for Applied Legal Studies (CALS), University of the Witwatersrand Robert Krause is the acting head of the Environmental Justice Programme at the Centre for Applied Legal Studies (CALS), a public interest law organisation and law clinic based at the University of the Witwatersrand. He has been a researcher in this programme for more than 10 years. Robert is also a member of the steering committee of the Climate Justice Coalition. He obtained an LLB and an LLM in public and constitutional law from the University of Cape Town. His LLM thesis addressed the issue of substantive limits to amendments of the South African constitution. His work involves conducting research on the mining and environmental legal regime. Particular focus areas of the Environmental Justice Programme include public participation in decisions about the environment and the use of natural resources, legislation and policy instruments to transform the mining sector (including social and labour plans and the mining charter), and environmentally-focused spatial planning. His research interests include participatory governance and development and Marxist social theory as a lens for understanding inequality in South Africa, including environmental injustice.
Adjunct Professor, James Cook University I recently retired from my position as a Senior Principal Research Scientists with CSIRO in the Sustainability Pathways Program and now am an adjunct (honorary) Professor with James Cook University's Cairns Institute. I am an internationally-recognised expert in the science of ecosystem governance and multiple knowledge systems for sustainability, including biodiversity futures, climate change and how indigenous knowledge can inform resilience. I a member of the IUCN Commission on Environment Economic and Social Policy, the World Commission on Protected Areas and Chair of the Gondwana World Heritage Advisory Committee (Qld section).
Research Fellow, University of Sussex Dr Rachel Verdin is a researcher at the ESRC Digital Futures at Work Research Centre at the University of Sussex Business School. She is a political economist whose research interests include social policy, equality, diversity and inclusion, and the digital transformation of work and government. Rachel has recently published a monograph 'Architectures of inequality: gender pay inequity in Britain's finance sector' based on her PhD research. The book draws from an array of research data including equality law, gender pay reporting data, organisational policy and qualitative insights. Rachel's recent projects include internationally comparative research on the digital transformation of governments and an examination of the business models, union organising strategies and worker experience in the quick commerce sector.
Assistant Professor, University of Toronto I am interested in investigating the impacts of environmental programs and environmental changes on different human wellbeing and environmental outcomes. I have looked at the impacts of community forest management and protected areas on deforestation, economic, and subjective human well-being in Madagascar. I have also examined the links between forests, child nutrition, and health in low and middle-income countries. I have explored links between fisheries, child nutrition and child development in the areas around Lake Victoria, Kenya. I currently investigate the impacts of marine conservation on food and nutrition security. My publications can be viewed here: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=3yW9IiMAAAAJ&hl=en
Water Policy Specialist, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Rajpreet Grewal is a Water Policy Specialist and Sea Grant UW Water Science-Policy Fellow at the Center for Water Policy. She holds a Master of Science in Water Resources Management from the Nelson Institute and a Juris Doctorate from the University of Wisconsin Law School. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Research Fellow, University of Southampton Ruth is currently working on the Ideas-Informed Society, researching how and why people engage with information and evidence to make decisions in their daily lives. In addition she works a consortium EU Horizon funded project, MEGASKILLS, with the objective is to contribute to the development of the European Skills Agenda by bridging the gap between the educational offer and the labour market through the research and design of an innovative and affordable methodology for training and evaluating soft skills through gaming. Ruth worked for just under twenty years in state schools in England in a variety of posts in Primary and all-through schools including teaching assistant, class teacher before eventually becoming a headteacher. Ruth has a strong interest in educational leadership in particular how school leaders design and enact continuing professional development in their settings and the nature of inter- and intra- professional learning networks in schools. After leaving full-time work in schools, she worked as a freelance researcher as well as supporting the research, writing and editing of books. She works part-time for National Institute of Teaching and Education as a part-time lecturer and mentor for school leaders on their MA in Educational Leadership
