Contributors

Sien van der Plank

Senior Research Fellow, University of Southampton

Senior Research Fellow, University of Southampton Sien van der Plank is currently a Senior Research Fellow within the School of Geography and Environmental Science at the University of Southampton. She has researched environmental management across conservation, political, mining and hazard contexts since 2014. She has been a member of staff in Geography and Environmental Science since 2020.

Silvia Malagoli

Postdoctoral Researcher in Fisheries Science, University of Strathclyde

Postdoctoral Researcher in Fisheries Science, University of Strathclyde I am an Italian living in Scotland since 2019, currently postdoc at the University of Strathclyde, where I also did my PhD, which I am about to finish. I did my BSc in Aquaculture at the Alma Mater Studiorum in Bologna (IT) and my MSc in Marine Biology at the University of Bremen (DE). The broad area of my research is fisheries science, at the moment I am focusing on mathematical modelling of fish population. Food security, and especially seafood security, is a challenge I feel very committed to and will be the focus of my future research.

Simon J. Murphy

Senior Lecturer, Astrophysics, University of Southern Queensland

Senior Lecturer, Astrophysics, University of Southern Queensland I am an ARC Future Fellow and Senior Lecturer at the University of Southern Queensland. I study stellar pulsations detected in data from NASA’s Kepler and TESS missions, and use those pulsations to make inferences about the stars. I use stellar pulsations as clocks, to track the stars’ orbital motions through space and discover new binary systems in a parameter space inaccessible to other techniques. This provides clues on how binary stars form. I also use the pulsations to make inferences on stellar structure, including precise measurements of stellar ages and metallicities. With these, we can recalibrate the ages of the stars by determining the ages of the clusters and associations in which they reside. I graduated from the University of Manchester with a BSc (Hons) in 2010, completed my PhD at the University of Central Lancashire in 2013, and held multiple postdoc positions at the University of Sydney, including as an ARC DECRA fellow, until I moved to UniSQ in 2022.

Shelby Carvalho

Doctoral Candidate; Faculty Instructor, Harvard University

Doctoral Candidate; Faculty Instructor, Harvard University I’m a PhD candidate in Government and Political Science at Harvard University studying Comparative Politics and Political Economy. My dissertation project focuses on the political economy of refugee inclusion in low- and middle-income countries. My academic interests are shaped by more than a decade of professional experience in education and international development. It’s important to me that my research and teaching address real-world challenges. As a result, I straddle academic and policy worlds as a researcher and international development consultant. My areas of expertise include education, forced displacement and migration, gender, international aid and public finance, and labor markets. At Harvard, I’m an affiliate of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, the Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences, the Center for International Development, and the REACH Initiative. Externally, I regularly consult with UNHCR and others as a political economy analyst, am an education expert with the Center for Global Development, a Fulbright recipient, an affiliate of the REAL Centre at Cambridge University, and a visiting scholar with J-PAL Africa.

Sally Matthews

Associate Professor of Political and International Studies, Rhodes University

Associate Professor of Political and International Studies, Rhodes University Sally Matthews is an associate professor in the Department of Political and International Studies at Rhodes University. Her research and teaching interests are in comparative politics, African studies and development studies.

Stephen Kinnane

Co-Chair of Indigenous Studies, Nulungu Research Institute, University of Notre Dame Australia

Co-Chair of Indigenous Studies, Nulungu Research Institute, University of Notre Dame Australia Stephen Kinnane is a Marda Marda from Mirriwoong country in the East Kimberley. He has been an active writer and researcher for more than 25 years as well as lecturing and working on sustainability, politics and history with a focus on regional and local community resilience, belonging and connections with place.