Emeritus Professor of Economics, and Emeritus Fellow of Merton College, University of Oxford I have mainly worked on the following areas in macroeconomics: monetary and fiscal policy interactions, equilibrium real exchange rates, fiscal policy rules, social welfare measures derived from utility, stability under alternative monetary regimes, alternative fiscal institutions, structural econometric models, and the methodology of macroeconomics.
Lecturer in the Philosophy of Science, University of New England I am Lecturer in the Philosophy of Science at the University of New England, NSW Australia. My research interests are mainly in the philosophy of biology (especially functions and teleology, the units of selection, species, natural kinds, macroevolution and paleobiology) and general philosophy of science (especially the scientific realism debate), but I also work on issues in metaphilosophy and epistemology. I have published several papers on empiricism and the concept of a philosophical stance. Current research projects include work on pragmatism in the scientific realism debate; arguments for realism about the units of selection; the role of values in science; and naturalised metaphysics. I received my Ph.D from the University of Melbourne in 2012 (supervisor Greg Restall), thesis title 'Empiricism, Metaphysical Stances the Philosophy of Biology'. After receiving my Ph.D my first position was as a researcher on the IARPA (Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity) Critical Thinking and Argument Mapping Project at the University of Melbourne. Before coming to UNE I taught at the University of Connecticut, University of Melbourne, and La Trobe University.
PhD Candidate, Queensland University of Technology Susannah is an Accredited Practising Dietitian (APD) and PhD Candidate at Queensland University of Technology. Her research is centred around feeding interactions in toddlerhood and early childhood. She is currently completing a PhD that focuses on siblings, and their role at mealtimes in Australian households. She applies a prevention lens to explore factors that influence how eating behaviours are shaped early in life to optimise long-term health outcomes for children.
Emeritus Professor of Roman Archaeology, University of Birmingham I am a specialist in Roman archaeology with interests centring on Roman Britain and on Roman France Germany and Spain and Portugal, with a particular interest in Late Antiquity. My main research interests lie in the archaeology of the Roman period, more particularly in the western provinces. Though covering all Roman the period, my principal focus is on the period of Late Antiquity (ca. A.D.300-700). My current research concerns the transition from Roman to post-Roman over much of the western part of the empire, both as regards the nature of the archaeological record and as regards the changes in economy society, religion and mentalities which that record embodies and has resulted in a substantial monograph ‘The Roman West AD 200-500: an archaeological study’ published in 2013. Also published in 2013 was my book 'Chedworth: life ina Roman villa', arising our of my long-term collaboration with The National Trust on the re-display and re-interpretation of the well-know Romano-British villa at Chedworth in the Cotswolds near Cirencester.I have previously worked and published on the Roman period in Britain, again with an emphasis on the later Roman period and the Roman to post-Roman transition. I also have a particular interest in urban archaeology both as a sub-discipline within field archaeology and as an approach to understanding the distinctiveness of towns and of urbanised societies, and collaborated with my colleagues Ray Laurence and Gareth Sears in writing a major work ‘The City in the Roman West c.250 BC – AD 250’ (2011). In addition I have an interest in Roman period numismatics, particularly the identification and interpretation of site-finds.
Professor, University of the Western Cape Salam Titinchi is a Professor of Inorganic Chemistry and Catalysis Research Group Leader at the Department of Chemistry. While his work covers a range of concerns, he has over the past years increasingly focused on the development of nano-materials for environmental applications.
