Contributors

Robert A.R. Guldemond

Researcher, Conservation Ecology Research Unit, University of Pretoria

Researcher, Conservation Ecology Research Unit, University of Pretoria

Ron Buliung

Professor, Department of Geography, Geomatics and Environment, University of Toronto

Professor, Department of Geography, Geomatics and Environment, University of Toronto Ron Buliung is a University of Toronto Distinguished Professor in the Geographies of Disability and Ableism. He holds a Ph.D. (2004) in Urban Geography from McMaster University. He is a faculty member in the Department of Geography, Geomatics and Environment at UTM. He holds graduate faculty appointments at the University of Toronto in the Department of Geography and Planning, and in the Rehabilitation Sciences Institute. Ron has dedicated his career to studying the experiences of children and youth in cities. His early work focused on the journey to school, and how school travel connects with and impacts childhood health. During the past decade, he re-focused his research program toward the various ways in which disability and ableism are produced by and embedded within the institutions that govern and make the places within cities where we live, work, play, and learn. His interest in disability scholarship and the problem of ableism is motivated by family experiences with disabling institutions and environments. Recent published works have focused on access to education, disability and school transport, disability and climate change, and food insecurity for disabled persons. Professor Buliung teaches the graduate seminar, “Disability, Ableism and Place” in the Graduate Program in Geography and Planning.

Robert Leslie Thomson

Associate Professor, FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, University of Cape Town, University of Cape Town

Associate Professor, FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, University of Cape Town, University of Cape Town Robert has a broad interest in bird ecology, but is especially interested in between-species interactions. He comes from Pretoria, and grew up birding and ringing in the bushveld areas. He did his undergraduate studies at the University of Pretoria, studying mixed species bird flocks for his BSc Hons. These studies led to him being a field assistant in northern Finland. This stint became his MSc thesis at the University of Oulu, which tested the heterospecific attraction hypothesis that migrant songbirds attract to resident songbirds during their habitat selection decisions. He continued with his PhD in Oulu, further investigating the positive associations in Boreal bird communities, but incorporating the interplay of negative, predation and competition, interactions. He defended his thesis in 2006, and moved to southern Finland to take up a post-doc position at the University of Turku investigating various aspects of raptors and their impact on songbird community structure. During the avian influenza (AI) crises in 2007, Robert led AI surveillance efforts in Cambodia for the Wildlife Conservation Society, and assisted with surveillance work in Mongolia. He then returned to Finland where he held a series of research fellowships investigating avian habitat selection decisions in the face of ‘enemies’ and the life history of endangered wader populations in the Bothnian bay. Robert has also initiated three new research projects in the last few years that use unique study systems to answer questions of interest. He has been working on: 1) The importance of Sociable Weaver colonies in the Kalahari and their use by other avian species and other taxa. Investigating how these communities and their interactions change at weaver nests across aridity gradients. This work has also focused on the African Pygmy Falcon, an obligate user of these weaver nests, and their life history and interactions with their weaver hosts. 2) Understanding front-line defences in brood parasite – host interactions. For these studies he is using the redstart-common cuckoo system, unique because the redstart is the only known cavity nesting host of the common cuckoo, that present interesting challenges for the cuckoo. 3) An applied project to understand the role of farmers in vulture conservation in southern Africa. Taking interdisciplinary approaches to understand the factors that affect the use of poison by farmers and human-wildlife conflicts. And focusing on the role that supplementary feeding efforts by farmers can play, and assessing the services that vultures may provide in terms of carcass.

Ricardo Safra de Campos

Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Exeter

Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Exeter Dr. Ricardo Safra de Campos is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Exeter working on population movements in the context of climate change, with a research focus on migration, sustainability and wellbeing. His work has been published in interdisciplinary journals including Nature Climate Change, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Global Environmental Change, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, and discipline-specific such as Population, Space and Place. He is a contributing author on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate. Ricardo gave expert oral evidence on migration and climate change to EU Home Affairs Sub-Committee of the UK’s House of Lords in 2020. He serves on the advisory board of international research and policy initiatives on climate-related displacement in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean; and is on the editorial board for the journals Climatic Change; PLOSClimate; and Climate Mobilities, Frontiers in Climate.

Rich Hanley

Professor Emeritus of Journalism, Quinnipiac University

Professor Emeritus of Journalism, Quinnipiac University Richard Hanley is a Professor Emeritus of Journalism at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. A graduate of the University of New Haven and Wesleyan University, he served as a journalist for local, national, and global media for 23 years in print, television and online before joining Quinnipiac in 2001. He has produced, written, and directed Emmy-nominated documentaries for CPTV and PBS. He founded the Sports Journalism graduate program at Quinnipiac and served as co-director of Sports Studies, an interdisciplinary minor.

Rotem Perach

Lecturer in Psychology, University of Westminster

Lecturer in Psychology, University of Westminster Dr Rotem Perach is a Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Westminster. He is interested in applied social psychology including topics relating to collective resilience, misinformation, public health messaging, and facemasks. Rotem received his PhD from the University of Kent, and worked as a postdoctoral researcher in Goldsmiths, University of London, University of Sussex, and University of Westminster.