Clinical Professor, UBC Division of Endocrinology, University of British Columbia I am a clinical professor in the UBC Division of Endocrinology. I have focused my career on the care of adults with rare inherited metabolic disorders. I have been consulted by federal agencies including Health Canada and CADTH on issues around high cost drugs for rare diseases. I also advise the BC provincial government on issues around rare diseases and high cost drugs.
Emeritus Professor of Literary Studies at School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics, Faculty of Arts, Monash University I have lived in Zambia, South Africa, the UK and Australia and have degrees from the Universities of Cape Town, East Anglia and New South Wales. My PhD (UNSW) was a postcolonial reading of the works of J.M. Coetzee and André Brink. I have held academic and leadership positions at UNSW and Monash Universities; and have been Distinguished Visiting Chair of Australian Studies at the University of Copenhagen (2009) and R. Marika Chair of Australian Studies at the University of Cologne (2013). My books include Pen and Power: A Post-colonial Reading of J. M. Coetzee and André Brink (1996), Writing Woman, Writing Place: Australian and South African Fiction (2004), Lighting Dark Places: Essays on Kate Grenville (ed. 2010) and Strong Opinions: J. M. Coetzee and the Authority of Contemporary Fiction (co-ed. 2011). Recent publications are Rethinking the Victim: Gender and Violence in Contemporary Australian Women’s Writing with Anne Brewster (Routledge, 2019) and Reading Coetzee’s Women (co-ed, Palgrave, 2019). I have published numerous book chapters and journal articles on J. M. Coetzee, and on postcolonial, Australian and South African literatures. I was awarded an ARC Discovery Grant entitled "Rethinking the Victim: Gendered Violence in Contemporary Australian Women's Writing" in 2014 with Assoc. Prof. Anne Brewster with whom I am currently researching contemporary Australian women's writing on war.
Visiting Professor, School of Law, University of Reading Saul Lehrfreund is the co-founder and Co-Executive Director of The Death Penalty Project, an international human rights organisation based at Simons Muirhead & Burton solicitors in London. Saul specialises in constitutional and international human rights law and has represented prisoners under sentence of death before the domestic courts in the Commonwealth and international tribunals since the organization's inception in 1992. He has assisted lawyers in many countries (including Uganda, Nigeria, Malawi, Ghana, India and Malaysia) in constitutional cases concerning the death penalty and has participated in expert delegations to Japan, Taiwan, China and India. In November 2000, Saul was awarded an MBE for services to international human rights law and in July 2009, he received an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws from the University of Reading. He is a founder member of UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office Pro Bono Panel representing British Nationals facing the death penalty. Saul has published and lectured extensively on capital punishment and human rights to a wide range of audiences including the United Nations and the Council of Europe.
Professor of Geophysics, University of Cambridge Sergei Lebedev has received a PhD in geophysics from Princeton University in 2000 and was a researcher at MIT and Utrecht University before joining the Dublin Institute for Advanced Study as Mallet Assistant Professor of Seismology in 2008. His research interests include seismic imaging of the Earth’s interior and the structure and evolution of the crust and underlying mantle. His research within the iCRAG Geophysics Platform is on development and application of new methods for processing and inversion of very large seismic and other geophysical datasets.
