PhD Scholar, Griffith University I am a PhD scholar at Griffith University’s Cities Research Institute working towards how we can build more sustainable, resilient and fair food systems and how governance can enable this. My current work is focused on how food networks and collaborations at the regional scale can enhance food system resilience in the face of disasters and for long term resilience and sustainability.
Professor of Modern Japanese Cultural Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara Sabine Frühstück is interested in the study of modern and contemporary Japanese culture and its relationship to the world. Her research has engaged several intellectual fields. Her most recent book, Gender and Sexuality in Modern Japan (2022) describes the ever-changing manifestations of sexes, genders, and sexualities from the 1860s to the present day. Playing War: Children and the Paradoxes of Modern Militarism in Japan (2017) is a cultural history of the naturalized connections between childhood and militarism. It analyzes the rules and regularities of war play, from the hills and along the rivers of 19th century rural Japan to the killing fields of 21st century cyberspace. The ethnography, Uneasy Warriors: Gender, Memory and Popular Culture in the Japanese Army (2007) employs gender, memory and popular culture as technologies of engagement with a number of debates that centrally involve the ambivalent status and condition of Japan’s contemporary military. Colonizing Sex: Sexology and Social Control in Modern Japan (2003) is a socio-historical study of the creation, formation, and application of a “science of sex” from the late 19th through the mid-20th century.
Lecturer in Applied Sport & Exercise Psychology, University of Portsmouth Having joined the School in September 2021 while completing his Doctorate in Sport & Exercise Psychology, Sahen became a Lecturer in Applied Sport & Exercise Psychology in 2022. Sahen is a applied practitioner (British Psychological Society QSEP route) and has worked in developmental-elite sport focusing on mental health adn performance interventions, resilience, psychotherapy and applied research. He brings this blend of practice and research from professional practice into the educational setting. In addition to his Education and Research activities, Sahen has great practitioner experience across a range of professional sporting contexts, primarily in elite-international cricket and tennis. Research interests Sahen's research primarily focuses on the following major themes: Resilience for Mental health and high performance Cultural Sport Psychology Psychotherapy and mental health in sport Resilience and transferrability across contexts
Adjunct Fellow, School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Macquarie University Dr Stuart Ryder is an Adjunct Fellow with the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, and a member of the Astrophysics and Space Technologies Research Centre at Macquarie University. His research interests include supernovae, and the emerging field of Fast Radio Bursts. Stuart also works part-time as a Program Manager with Astronomy Australia Ltd at their Sydney office, overseeing Australia's Strategic Partnership with the European Southern Observatory, Giant Magellan Telescope, and engagement with the Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time.