Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of York Siân Beynon-Jones is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology. She discovered sociology via an undergraduate degree in Molecular Genetics, during which she became frustrated with conversations that positioned proteins as the sole agents of social change. After graduating in 2003, she undertook a taught MSc in Science and Technology studies at the University of Edinburgh, which allowed her to pursue her interest in the sociology of scientific and medical knowledge-making. Following this degree she was awarded an ESRC PhD studentship at Edinburgh (2005-2009). Her doctoral research explored how expertise is constructed by Scottish health professionals who are involved in abortion provision, and considered the implications of this for women who seek to end their pregnancies. Career Siân first joined the department in 2009 as a Research Fellow, working with Nik Brown on an EU FP7 project concerning the dynamics of policy-making about xenotransplantation. In 2011 she was awarded a three year Wellcome Trust Research Fellowship at York to develop her research around experiences with abortion provision, focussing in particular on the meaning(s) of ‘time’ and ‘timing’ in this context. Siân took up a permanent post in the department in 2014 as an Anniversary Research Lecturer and has continued to explore temporality, law and reproduction through a range of funded research projects.
Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology Dr. Srinivas Garimella is the Hightower Chair in Engineering and a Professor in the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is director of the Sustainable Thermal Systems Laboratory, which he founded upon his arrival at Georgia Tech in 2003. Dr. Garimella received a Ph.D. degree (1990) and an M. S. degree in Nuclear Engineering from The Ohio State University. He received a B. Tech. in Mechanical Engineering from The Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (India) in 1982. He was a Research Scientist at Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, OH from 1984-1990, and a Senior Engineer in the Delphi Harrison Thermal Systems Division of General Motors Corporation in Lockport, NY from 1990-1993. After serving as a Research Specialist in the Mechanical Engineering Department at The Ohio State University from 1993-1994, he joined Western Michigan University, where he served on the faculty of the Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering Department from 1994-1998. Dr. Garimella was an associate professor of mechanical engineering and director of the Advanced Thermal Systems Laboratory at the Iowa State University prior to joining Georgia Tech. Dr. Garimella has mentored over 75 postdoctoral researchers, research engineers and students pursuing their M.S. and Ph.D. degrees, with his research resulting in over 250 archival journal and conference publications, a textbook on Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow in Minichannels and Microchannels (2nd Ed., Elsevier 2014), and a book on Condensation Heat Transfer (World Scientific Publishing, 2015). He has been awarded eight patents. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, past Associate Editor of the ASME Journal of Heat Transfer, and Editor of the International Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration. He has also served as Associate Editor of the ASME Journal of Energy Resources Technology, and Past Chair of the Advanced Energy Systems Division of ASME. He was an Associate Editor of the ASHRAE HVAC&R Research Journal and Chair of the ASHRAE Technical Committee on Absorption and Heat Operated Machines, and was on the ASHRAE Research Administration Committee. He is a corresponding member of the ASHRAE Technical Committee on Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow. He held the William and Virginia Binger Associate Professorship of Mechanical Engineering at ISU from 1999-2001. He is the recipient of the NSF CAREER Award (1999), the ASHRAE New Investigator Award (1998), the SAE Ralph E. Teetor Educational Award for Engineering Educators (1998), and was the Iowa State University Miller Faculty Fellow (1999-2000) and Woodruff Faculty Fellow (2003-2008) at Georgia Tech. He received the ASME Award for Outstanding Research Contributions in the Field of Two-Phase Flow and Condensation in Microchannels (2012). He also received the Thomas French Distinguished Educator Achievement Award (2008) from The Ohio State University, and the Zeigler Outstanding Educator Award (2012) at Georgia Tech.
Lecturer in Criminology, Monash University Shih Joo (Siru) is a feminist critical criminologist who researches and publishes in the areas of gendered labour, migration, exploitation and violence against women, with a focus on care and domestic labour.
Postdoctoral Fellow in Biosecurity, Murdoch University I am an entomologist, evolutionary biologist, behavioural ecologist, and biosecurity researcher. I completed my PhD at the University of Western Australia in 2019, where I worked on the social evolution of sexual conflict with Prof Leigh Simmons and Prof Joseph Tomkins. Subsequently, I spent a year at the University of Exeter investigating the interplay between kin groups and alternative reproductive tactics with Prof David Hosken, Prof Nina Wedell, and Prof Joseph Tomkins. In 2021, I was fortunate enough to secure a Forrest Fellowship at UWA and CSIRO, where I collaborated with Prof Raphael Didham and Dr Bruce Webber to conduct groundbreaking new research on the ecology of warfare between native and invasive ants. At the time of writing, I am a Postdoctoral Fellow in Biosecurity at Murdoch University's Harry Butler Institute, where I am investigating the risk of hitchhiker pests in the global shipping pathways, along with Prof Melissa Thomas and Prof Simon McKirdy. I am generally interested in the effects of behaviour on species ecology, particularly in insects, and am keen to expand on my previous work on the ecology and dynamics of non-human warfare.
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University Stephanie Cleland is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University and a research scientist at the Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute. Her research focuses on evaluating the human health impacts of exposure to climate change-influenced environmental hazards, including wildfire smoke and extreme heat, using environmental epidemiology, exposure assessments, and health impact assessments. She holds a PhD and MSPH in Environmental Sciences and Engineering from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. She conducted her dissertation research as an Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education research fellow at the United States Environmental Protection Agency in the Center for Public Health and Environmental Assessment.
Forrest Research Fellow, The University of Western Australia I am broadly interested in how marine habitats interact with environmental drivers, especially in the context of global environmental change.
