PhD Candidate, Sutherland School of Law, University College Dublin Sergei Katsuba is a PhD Candidate at the Sutherland School of Law, University College Dublin (UCD). He graduated with a degree in law from the Buryat State University in Ulan-Ude, Russia. He then completed a two years Master’s program at National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan. Sergei’s research is in the area of freedom of expression, autocratization in Russia, LGBTQ rights, and hate crimes against LGBTQ in Russia. Sergei is developing a system of monitoring the hate crimes against LGBTQ in Russia. To date, the research project was able to identify more than 1000 hate crimes against LGBTQ in Russia. In 2022 the data on hate crimes generated by the research was submitted to the OSCE as a part of the annual civil society submission on hate crime incidents in Russia. Sergei has a keen interest in the areas of Human Rights Law, International Law, and the study of authoritarianism.
Professor of Education, Australian Catholic University Susan Edwards is Professor of Education in the Learning Sciences Institute of Australia (LSIA), Australian Catholic University, where she currently directs the Early Childhood Futures research program. Her research investigates the role of play-based learning in the early childhood curriculum for the 21st century. Professor Edwards has completed work as a Chief Investigator on two Australian Research Council Discovery Grants. The first examining play-based learning in early childhood education settings, and the second the role of play-based learning in wellbeing and sustainability education. She is currently the lead Chief Investigator on an Australian Research Council Discovery Project on digital play and an Australian Research Council Linkage Project on a best practice framework for playgroups in schools. Susan has over 70 publications in peer reviewed journals, and has published several books with publishers including Cambridge University Press, McMillan and Open University Press. Her most recent book is due for publication in 2018 and titled Young Children’s Play and Learning in the Digital Age (co-authored with Christine Stephen, University of Stirling). Professor Edwards is the immediate past co-editor of the Asia Pacific Journal of Teacher Education and is currently on the editorial board for three journals (Early Years: International Journal of Research and Practice; Journal of Early Childhood Research; Australasian Journal of Early Childhood). Professor Edwards is also a winner of several awards for teaching excellence in the tertiary education sector, including a prestigious Australian Learning and Teaching Council award in 2009.
Associate Professor in Clinical Psychology, University of New England A/Prof Cosh's primary research interests are in the mental health, specifically in relation to climate change including climate change anxiety and distress. She is also interested in natural disasters and mental health, including the impacts of disaster exposure on wellbeing, as well as ways of promoting preparedness and resilience in relation to natural disasters. She also has interests in sport psychology, including athlete mental health and disordered eating in sport and exercise.
PhD Candidate, Queensland University of Technology Samuel Lewis Torrens is a PhD at Queensland University of Technology. His research is on 'Computational Chemistry and Blood Acid-Base Data for The Metabolic Acidosis of Multiple Disease States'.
Professor of Marketing, School of Business, Education and Law, University of Huddersfield I am a Professor of Marketing with 20+ years experience of marketing teaching, research and enterprise. I have published and presented internationally over that time on consumer research and consumer trends but my research skills are transferable across a range of contexts and questions that require an in-depth qualitative answer. I am a consumer ethnographer, focussing on consumer culture in all its guises but more specifically on material-semiotic approaches to consumption. These approaches have illuminated such topics as gender and sexuality, consumer resilience, contemporary family consumption and animal-human relations. I have completed funded research projects for ESRC, Leverhulme, and Innovate UK. My publications can be read in Sociology, European Journal of Marketing, Gender, Work and Organisation, Marketing Letters, Journal of Business Research, Marketing Theory, Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing, Consumption, Markets and Culture, Advances in Consumer Research, and Journal of Marketing Management.
