Associate Professor of History, University of Tasmania My fields of expertise are Tasmanian Aboriginal history, the histories of science and empire; genocide and extinction studies. I currently hold an ARC Discovery Project titled: ‘Extinction, Survival, Resurgence: Indigenous and Colonial Histories' at the University of Tasmania, and previously held the ARC Postdoctoral fellowship for the project 'From Race to the Genome: the Tasmanian Aboriginal People within the Scientific Imagination'. I am contracted with Black Inc to write the book: 'Women at the Edge of the World: Surviving Extinction'. My 2017 book, Into the Heart of Tasmania: A Search for Human Antiquity, (Melbourne University Press) won the 2018 Tasmanian Book Prize, the 2018 Queensland Premier’s Award for history, the inaugural Joan and Dick Family Green Award for Tasmanian History and was shortlisted for the Ernest Scott Prize for history. I held the inaugural Coral Thomas Fellow at State Library NSW. I have held Fellowships and Scholarships at the The University of Melbourne, Kings College London, Oxford University and the ANU.
PhD Candidate, University of Antwerp I received a doctoral fellowship grant (DOCPRO) from the University of Antwerp (Belgium) in the field of in vitro gametogenesis in the context of fertility preservation at the Department of Veterinary Sciences. The aim of my PhD is to isolate and fully characterise stem cells that we believe are present in porcine ovaries and to differentiate them into oocyte-like cells, that could potentially be fertilised and produce viable offspring. Fertility preservation, stem cell research, gametogenesis and embryology are my main interests, since the existence of stem cells with germline potential might be the key for infertility treatments and a source for fertility restoration. I hold a master’s degree in biological engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico (Lisbon, Portugal).
Research Professor of Hospitality and Tourism and Director, International Tourism Research Institute, University of South Carolina Rich Harrill has a strong record of success in and an international reputation for leveraging his academic and professional experience combining tourism with economic development and urban planning to drive local, regional, national and international business, tourism and economic growth. Harrill brings an industry-driven business mode and academic entrepreneurship to the university level. Currently, in his role as director of the International Tourism Research Institute (ITRI) at the University of South Carolina, Harrill conducts studies on applied research to provide practical solutions to increase U.S. and international tourism industry competitiveness, resulting in additional revenues and strong economic development opportunities. Harrill has focused extensively on international tourism and economic development. He collaborated with the U.S. Travel Association and the U.S. Department of Commerce, Office of Travel and Tourism Industries on the definitive study of future Chinese outbound tourism to the U.S., potentially leading to additional tourism dollars for both China and the United States. In doing this research, he directly influenced both U.S. and China federal policies to enable cultural and research exchanges. He is currently working with the U.S. Department of Commerce, Office of Travel and Tourism on a study of the recent decline in Japanese tourists to the United States. He also has conducted additional research in the Dominican Republic on tourism development, and accepted a two-month appointment as a visiting professor at the University of Aruba. Harrill earned his Ph.D. in parks, recreation, and tourism management and his master's degree in city and regional planning from Clemson University. He holds a B.A. in political science from the College of Charleston. He has published his research in urban planning's top three journals: the Journal of American Planning Association, Journal of Planning Education and Research and Journal of Planning Literature. The Journal of the American Planning Association is the top-ranked journal for urban studies and number-two ranked journal for planning and development. Harrill edited Fundamentals of Destination Management and Marketing (American Hotel and Lodging Association, 2005), the first comprehensive textbook for the destination management industry. He is also co-editor of the International Journal of Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research and research notes editor of Tourism Analysis.
Professor of Information, University of Michigan Dr. Ron Eglash holds a B.S. in Cybernetics, an M.S. in Systems Engineering, and PhD in History of Consciousness, all from the University of California. A Fulbright postdoctoral fellowship enabled his field research on African ethnomathematics, which was published by Rutgers University Press in 1999 as African Fractals: modern computing and indigenous design. He is a tenured professor in the School of Information and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design (Stamps) at the University of Michigan.
Research Assistant, Partners for Action, University of Waterloo Rachel Krueger holds a Master of Environmental Studies in Sustainability Management (Water) from the University of Waterloo. Her master's thesis focussed on flood risk communication in Canada. She developed evidence-based recommendations for a sample of 18 Canadian municipalities' flood risk communications to their residents that were the result of surveys of municipal staff from across Canada, interviews with academic and industry subject matter experts, and a literature review of relevant behavioural science concepts and risk communication theory. Her research was SSHRC-funded and supervised by Dr. Blair Feltmate, Head of the Intact Centre on Climate Adaptation. During her graduate degree (2020-2022), Rachel worked as a Graduate Research Assistant with Partners for Action, an applied flood risk research initiative at the University of Waterloo. She contributed to a project called Inclusive Resilience: Reducing Disaster Risks for Canadians, led by the Canadian Red Cross and funded by Public Safety Canada. Rachel continues to work with Partners for Action as a Research Assistant, where she is supporting a project on climate-resilient retrofits to buildings in the Halifax Regional Municipality. She is endlessly interested in, and motivated to advance, climate change adaptation, specifically adaptation to extreme weather events.
Professor of Law and Professional Ethics, University of Exeter Richard Moorhead is an empirical legal scholar who has worked on lawyers’ ethics and regulation, the courts and legal services, and access to justice. Interdisciplinary in approach, he has worked alongside economists, management scientists, and psychologists in such work, as well as with judges, Parliamentarians, policy-makers, and, professional regulators and representatives. He blogs at lawyerwatch and on substack (on the Post Office Scandal) and regularly features in professional and national press. He is currently leading an ESRC funded project on the Post Office Scandal with Karen Nokes, Rebecca Helm, and Sally Day. Past research includes projects on lawyers’ ethics (for instance his 2018 book is on the Ethics of In-house Lawyers, with Vaughan and Godhino); litigants in person; quality in legal aid; the effects of funding regimes on lawyer behavior; and, legal aid reform (community legal services, public defenders and contracting in particular). His teaching has championed new approaches to looking at lawyers and the future of legal practice. He was on the Data Evidence and Science Board at the Ministry of Justice and was a previous member of the Civil Justice Council, as well as the Legal Services Consultative Panel. Has advised three Select Committees legal aid inquiries and advises the Women and Equalities Select Committee on NDAs. He currently sits on the Horizon Compensation Advisory Board. He was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in 2019 and a fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts in May 2016. He sits on the editorial board of the International Journal of the Legal Profession, and the advisory boards of the Journal of Law and Society and Ethics and Behaviour.
