Senior Lecturer in Literature and Cultural Studies, University of East London Dr Roberta Garrett is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Arts and Creative Industries at the University of East London. She is author of Post-Modern Chick-Flicks: The Return of the Woman's Film (2008) co-editor of We Need to Talk About Family: Essays in Neoliberalism, The Family and Popular Culture (2016) and author of Writing the Modern Family: Contemporary Literature, Motherhood and Neoliberalism (2021). She is currently co-editing a book of essays on Rachel Cusk. She has also published numerous articles and book chapters on contemporary film and literature and has a forthcoming article in Feminist Media Studies on domestic abuse on screen.
Professor of accounting, Durham University Dr Richard Slack is a Professor of Accounting at Durham University Business School and served as Head of Department of Accounting 2016-2019. Richard joined Durham University in 2012, having previously been Professor of Accounting at Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University. Prior to his academic career, Dr Slack, a graduate of St Andrews University, worked at Price Waterhouse and is a qualified chartered accountant. Dr Slack’s research encompasses practice-relevant issues in areas of accounting information, sustainability and ethics. Specifically, Dr Slack is interested in the way information is disclosed by companies and whether such disclosure (both voluntary such as climate change and environmental reporting or mandatory such as reporting for intangibles under International Accounting Standards) is useful, or not, to capital market users. Dr Slack has a long track record of published research in leading world and international accounting and ethics journals including Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, British Accounting Review and Journal of Business Ethics. He has been successful in a range of research funding projects, including most recently with professional bodies (ACCA projects on intangible assets, integrated reporting and climate change reporting), and through business (Royal London research on mutuality).
Robert C. Packard Trustee Chair in Law, University of Southern California Robin Craig specializes in all things water, including the relationships between climate change and water; the water-energy-food nexus; the Clean Water Act; the intersection of water issues and land issues; ocean and coastal law; marine biodiversity and marine protected areas; water law; ecological resilience and the law; climate change adaptation, and the relationships between environmental law and public health. She is the author, co-author, or editor of 12 books, including Re-Envisioning the Anthropocene Ocean (University of Utah Press, forthcoming, with Jeffrey M. McCarthy); The End of Sustainability (Kansas University Press 2017, with Melinda Harm Benson); Contemporary Issues in Climate Change Law and Policy (Environmental Law Institute 2016, with Stephen Miller); Comparative Ocean Governance: Place- Based Protections in an Era of Climate Change (Edward Elgar 2012); and The Clean Water Act and the Constitution (Environmental Law Institute 2nd Ed. 2009), as well as textbooks for environmental law, water law, and toxic torts. She has also written more than 100 law review articles and book chapters in both legal and scientific publications.
Professor of Environment, Resources and Sustainability, University of Waterloo Robert B. Gibson is a professor in the School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability at the University of Waterloo, specializing in environmental policy issues and broader sustainability imperatives and applications. He has been involved with impact assessment law, policy and process issues since the mid 1970s.
PhD Candidate, Gut Microbes in Health and Disease, Quadram Institute Throughout my undergraduate studies I undertook several research placements and online courses, developing my skills and knowledge in areas of interest: neurology, nutrition and molecular biology. At the same time, I completed my year in industry within a separate field, looking at the potential of plant biomass within industrial settings. Each venture has built upon my skill set and guided by next career choices. Having graduated with a First class (hons) BSc in Biology at Aberystwyth University, I was also awarded the best performance in biology and went on to successfully secure a postgraduate studentship at the Quadram Institute. I am currently working as a PhD student under the direction of the Carding Research group on a project centred around the effect of stressors on human performance (cognitive and physical), as mediated by changes in the gut microbiome, encompassing my interests.
Associate Professor - Exercise Physiology, Queensland University of Technology I completed a B.Ed. in Physical Education and Geography at the State College of Victoria-Rusden Campus (now Deakin University) in 1978. I commenced a Masters Preliminary year (Exercise Science) at the University of Western Australia in 1985, and then moved to the USA to complete a M.Ed. in Exercise and Sports Science and Cardiac Rehabilitation at Wake Forest University (North Carolina) in 1987. I completed a PhD in Human Bioenergetics at Ball State University in Indiana in 1990. I accepted an academic appointment at the University of New Mexico in 1990, where I eventually received tenure and was promoted to Professor. I left the USA for a return to Australia in 2011, where I worked at Charles Sturt University as a Research Professor from 2011-2016. I then commenced a research and teaching appointment at Queensland University of Technology in 2016.
