PhD candidate in energy justice, The University of Melbourne Ruby holds a bachelor of electrical and electronic engineering from Victoria University and has been working as a consulting engineer for over a decade. Her early career involved working for Arup in both Melbourne and San Francisco. Ruby is the founding director of Alinga Energy Consulting, a small firm providing energy research, feasibility and design services with a focus on affordable and sustainable off-grid systems which improve livelihoods for Indigenous communities. She is also a member of the steering committee for the First Nations Clean Energy Network, a non-profit working to ensure First Nations participate in, and benefit from the clean energy transition. Over the years Ruby has contributed to publications on the topics of microbial fuel cells, DC power in buildings and microgrid applications for public transit in the United States. In 2020 Ruby became a PhD candidate with the University of Melbourne. Her research centres on energy justice for remote Indigenous communities and using traditional Indigenous values to augment energy service delivery in Australia. In 2019 she was awarded as Young Professional Engineer of the Year – Victoria by Engineers Australia and was also featured in their top 100 Engineers Making a Difference list.
Extended Sessional Instructor, English and Comparative Literature, MacEwan University Hi, I'm Regan, and I have taught English and Comparative Literature at MacEwan University since Fall 2017. My research deals with Holocaust literature, Russian-Jewish immigration experiences, and refugee narratives.
Academic Researcher, Director of Knowledge Mobilization, Pacific Institute on Pathogens, Pandemics and Society, Simon Fraser University Dr. Rackeb Tesfaye is the Knowledge Mobilization Director at the Pacific Institute on Pathogens, Pandemics and Society at Simon Fraser University. Her current role aims to promote the uptake of knowledge mobilization for pathogen and pandemic-related research, with an emphasis on embedding integrated knowledge mobilization and participatory-based practices. She holds a PhD in Neuroscience and an MSc in Psychiatric Research from McGill University. Dr. Tesfaye’s previous research focused on investigating the link between sleep problems and neurodevelopment disorders while formally developing the capacity to implement ethical and inclusive study protocols as a Doctoral Fellow at The University of Oxford’s Wellcome Trust Centre for Ethics and the Humanities. She has a firm grounding in mixed methodologies across many disciplines and previously worked as a knowledge broker for McGill University’s Health Research Center to catalyze a research-community-partnered initiative to expand access to evidence-based care for autism. Dr. Tesfaye has also worked as a science communication lecturer at McGill University and as a science columnist for CBC radio, creating multiple communication outputs for diverse audiences.
Postdoctoral Researcher in Analytical Chemistry, Dublin City University My first encounter with research was during my final project in my MSc in Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Technology in my home country, Italy. An Erasmus+ grant allowed me to carry out most of my project abroad, at the Wroclaw Medical University (Poland). Curiosity (and another Erasmus!) led me to the University of Split (Croatia) where I gained more hands-on research experience with different analytical techniques to study plant and food samples. After my degree, I worked as a pharmacist for some time, but I was missing the thrills and challenges of research. When I was awarded the Irish Research Council Postgraduate Research Scholarship in 2019, I was delighted to join Dublin City University to start my PhD with Prof. Blánaid White and Dr. Aoife Morrin. My project aimed at developing a multidisciplinary method to characterise honey and its potential biomedical applications using volatile markers. I am currently a postdoctoral researcher in Dr. Aoife Morrin’s laboratory with Insight (SFI) at DCU, working on bacterial signature Volatile Organic Compounds for wound infection diagnostics.
Director and Professor, Australian Centre for the Advancement of Literacy, Australian Catholic University Professor Rauno Parrila is the Director of the Australian Centre for the Advancement of Literacy at ACU. Dr. Parrila’s research focuses on psychological, linguistic, and social correlates of both typical and atypical development of reading skills. He has a keen interest in reading instruction and interventions, reading difficulties in different orthographies, and compensation of learning difficulties in both children and adults.
Senior Research Fellow, Sustainability Policy, University of Sheffield Richard Sulley is the Senior Research Fellow in Sustainability Policy at the Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures at the University of Sheffield. His role involves identifying and creating mechanisms to deliver real world impact from the Centre’s research through engagement with policy and decision makers.
