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Shelagh K. Mooney

Shelagh K. Mooney

Associate Professor, School of Hospitality & Tourism, Faculty of Culture and Society, Auckland University of Technology

Associate Professor, School of Hospitality & Tourism, Faculty of Culture and Society, Auckland University of Technology Dr Shelagh Mooney is an Associate Professor and Hospitality Postgraduate Program Leader at Auckland University of Technology, Aotearoa-New Zealand. She was educated in Dublin to tertiary level and completed her postgraduate studies in New Zealand. Shelagh’s field work provides empirical detail about neglected areas of tourism employment. Focusing on gendered workplace norms, young people’s employment outcomes, and sustainable workforce issues led Shelagh to establish research collaborations with researchers in Australia and the United Kingdom. She has published extensively in international journals such as Work, Employment and Society, and presented on gendered organisations and decent work and intersectional aspects of employment in the service sector. Prior to academia, Shelagh held senior executive roles in organisations such as Intercontinental Hotels and Hilton across Europe and represented academic perspectives on gender in industry forums. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0008-8204

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Salome A. Bukachi

Salome A. Bukachi

Associate professor, Institute of Anthropology, Gender and African Studies, University of Nairobi

Associate professor, Institute of Anthropology, Gender and African Studies, University of Nairobi Prof Salome Bukachi is an Associate professor in the University of Nairobi’s Institute of Anthropology, Gender and African Studies. She has a background in medical anthropology with a bias to infectious diseases in the areas of - community participation, gender, health systems, socio-economic and behavioural studies, food safety and security, and water, sanitation and health (WASH). She works with various stakeholders both local and international in undertaking research and development on anthropological issues. Her main disease focus has been– African trypanosomiasis, Rift Valley fever, brucellosis among others. Her recent research projects include; IDRC/BMGF/Global Affairs Canada funded research, “Gender Inclusive Vaccine Ecosystem: Enhancing Distribution and Delivery Systems for New Castle Disease and Caprine pleuropneumonia among smallholder farmers under the Livestock Vaccines Innovative Fund; An Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) funded research , “Rapid assessment of the impact of covid-19 on wet market reforms in Kenya, Philippines and Vietnam” and an African Oxford Initiative (AfOx) funded study, “Food safety and WASH in households with young children and its impact on their nutritional and health status in informal settlements in Nairobi, Kenya She serves as a member of the Africa Region Ecohealth Chapter, a member of the Africa One Health Network (AfOHNet) Steering Committee and a member of the One Health High level Panel (OHHLEP).

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Sharon Crozier-De Rosa

Sharon Crozier-De Rosa

Professor, University of Wollongong

Professor, University of Wollongong Sharon Crozier-De Rosa is Professor in History at the University of Wollongong. Her books include Remembering Women’s Activism (with Vera Mackie 2019), Sources for the History of Emotions (with Peter Stearns and Katie Barclay 2020), On Behalf of the People of Ireland: Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of Irish-Australian Diplomacy (with Jeff Brownrigg 2022), and Shame and the Anti-Feminist Backlash (2018). Her chapters and articles cover a range of topics from woman hate, and feminist and anti-feminist uses of history, to anger and resentment, abortion activism, and the colours of protest, and have been translated into German and French. She has chaired the prize committee for the Australian Women’s History Network (AWHN), researched for The Guardian, and has held fellowships and visiting positions at the National Library of Australia, the State Library of NSW, Australian National University and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Emotions, Berlin. An Irish migrant, she currently serves as President of the Irish Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand (ISAANZ).

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Sharmilla Bargon

Sharmilla Bargon

Social Justice Practitioner in Residence/Senior Solicitor, University of Sydney

Social Justice Practitioner in Residence/Senior Solicitor, University of Sydney Sharmilla Bargon is a specialist employment and discrimination law practitioner. She is a Senior Solicitor at Redfern Legal Centre and coordinates the Employment Rights Legal Service, a statewide employment rights service in NSW. She is passionate about assisting migrant workers and working on broader law reform campaigns to achieve systemic change. She was awarded NSW Women Lawyer Community Legal Centre Lawyer of 2023 and in the same year was one of the first joint Social Justice Practitioners-In-Residence at USYD law school working on a research project looking into the use of non-disclosure agreements in resolving sexual harassment matters, as is hoping to use this work to advocate and reform legal practice.

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