Historian of justice and law , Institut catholique de Lille (ICL) Sylvie Humbert est Professeur d'histoire du droit à l'Université catholique de Lille, Co-directrice du C3RD (Centre de recherches sur les relations entre les risques et le droit), Secrétaire générale de l'Association Française pour l'Histoire de la Justice et Directrice de formation à l'ENM d'une session sur « Images et justice ». Elle a notamment dirigé les ouvrages suivants : La chronique judiciaire, Mille ans d’histoire, revue n°20, La Documentation Française, coll. Histoire de la justice, 2010 ; Justices en Guyane, Paris, AFHJ/La Documentation Française, 2016 ; Justice et oubli. France-Rwanda, Paris, AFHJ/La Documentation Française, 2017.
PhD Candidate, The University of Melbourne Sascha Tanuja Samlal is a PhD candidate at The University of Melbourne in Cultural Studies. Her research project titled, Shame and the Figure of the Fangirl: Reconfiguring Shame in Popular Music Fandom, commenced in 2023. Her research spans fandom studies, social media studies, critical femininity studies, and feminist and queer theory. She is an advocate for attending to questions of femininity and queer lived experiences in research.
Associate Lecturer and Plant Records Officer, University of Oxford Sarah Edwards is an ethnobotanist and biodiversity informaticist, currently based at the University of Oxford, where she teaches ethnobiology and biological conservation. She is also Plant Records Officer for the University of Oxford Botanic Garden and Arboretum and an Honorary Research Associate at UCL School of Pharmacy, where she was awarded her PhD in 2006. Her career has included working for Kew Gardens developing collections management, nomenclatural and medicinal plant databases. She also provided data consultancies for national and international conservation, environmental and government health agencies, regulators, and NGOs that use plant names. As an ethnobotanist Sarah’s research interests include understanding how culture mediates people’s interactions and interrelationships with plants. Sarah has investigated medicinal plant use in northeast Brazil and worked in collaboration with First Nations communities in northern Australia, developing digital tools to facilitate intergenerational transmission of traditional plant knowledge. Other research projects have included investigating edaphic and phytochemical factors in the aetiology of equine grass sickness and the scientific evidence base of herbal medicines. Sarah has also collaborated with artists and farmers in South Wales to re-evaluate relationships with ‘weed’ species and worked with the London Borough of Richmond Arts Service as part of the Cultural Reforesting Programme. Sarah is a Fellow of the Linnean Society and a Board member of the British Herbal Medicine Association (BHMA). She is an author of several publications, including the books ‘Phytopharmacy: An Evidence-Based Guide to Herbal Medicinal Products’ (Wiley 2015) and ‘The Ethnobotanical’ (Kew Publishing/ Quercus Books 2023).
Professor of Sociology, University of Stirling My PhD was an ethnographic study of rural childhoods in Bolivia. I carried out research in Childhood Studies for 20 years and in 2013 I switched to researching the sociology of bridge, the card game. With a team of researchers and several projects relating to the sociology of mindsport, we have set up ‘Bridge: A MindSport for All’. This work is contributing to the development of a new academic field, Mindsport Studies, which sits between sport studies and leisure studies.
Postdoctoral Fellow in Technology and International Security, University of California, San Diego Spenser A. Warren is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Technology and Security at the University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation. He has a Ph.D. in Political Science from Indiana University Bloomington, where he wrote a dissertation on Russian nuclear modernization. His work on nuclear strategy, Russian foreign policy, and international security has appeared in academic and policy outlets.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Pacific Institute on Pathogens, Pandemics and Society, Simon Fraser University I'm a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Pacific Institute on Pathogens, Pandemics and Society at Simon Fraser University. I hold both a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) and a PhD in Pathobiology with a Collaborative Specialization in One Health from the Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph. My research uses a One Health approach to understand and manage zoonotic and infectious diseases at the human-wildlife interface.
