Professor, Department of Psychology, MacEwan University Dr. Sandy Jung is a full professor in the Department of Psychology and is the Associate Dean, Research. She maintains an active research program in her Psychology Crime Lab (PCL@M) that focuses on the prevention of sexual assault, child sexual exploitation and intimate partner violence and is funded by both internal and major external grants. She has numerous peer-reviewed publications in the field of forensic psychology, often co-authored with her students and her collaborators in law enforcement, forensic mental health and other academic institutions in Canada, the U.S. and other parts of the world. Dr. Jung has taught abnormal, forensic and clinical psychology and actively provides supervision of honours and advanced research students. She was a recipient of MacEwan’s Distinguished Teaching Award in 2017, Distinguished Research Award in 2018, and the Board of Governors Research Chair role from 2018 to 2020. She was also awarded CAFA’s Distinguished Academic Award in 2021. Prior to her current academic position, Dr. Jung was a forensic psychologist at a forensic outpatient clinic in Edmonton. She serves on the editorial board for the journals, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Offending: Theory, Research, and Prevention and Canadian Psychology. She is an assistant adjunct professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Alberta and is a registered forensic psychologist.
Lecturer in Clinical Psychology and Mental Health, University of South Wales Dr. Shakiela K Davies holds the position of Lecturer in Clinical Psychology and Mental Health at the University of South Wales, and is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She was awarded one of the few fully funded PhD Psychology studentships at Swansea University which was based in Cognitive Psychology/Neuroscience of language, and completed this in 2019. Shakiela has experience as an Assistant Clinical Psychologist with expertise in CBT, Acceptance & Commitment Therapy, Stress Control, Mindfulness and delivering NHS group interventions, as part of her NHS training. Shakiela has research interests which span across Clinical Psychology, Cognitive and Neuroscience of Language (e.g., Age of Acquisition and morphological processing); Research Methods, Mental Health and Online Grooming. She was asked to present her research at the Research, Engagement & Innovation Awards (REIS), Swansea. Shakiela has published and disseminated her research nationally and internationally (Spain, Canada). She has recently co-authored and published a book which provides a comprehensive and critical analysis of current perspectives on mental illness with references to psychological disorders and their current evidence based psycho-therapeutic applications - Tyson, P. J., Davies, S. K., & Torn, A., (2019) Madness: History, Concepts and Controversies. Routledge: Taylor and Francis. She is currently in a supervisory team examining Coulrophobia (clown phobia).
Associate Professor, Rural Planning and Development, University of Guelph Dr. Sheri Longboat (Mohawk) is a member of the Six Nations of the Grand River and Associate Professor in the School of Environmental Design and Rural Development at the University of Guelph. A geographer, educator, and community-engaged scholar with 25 years of experience working with and within First Nations communities in Canada, her multidisciplinary research focuses on the interface between Indigenous and Western institutions (knowledge systems, policy, and governance) to address issues of water insecurity, the relationship with natural resources, as well as other environmental challenges and opportunities.
Senior Research Associate, Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence, University of Colorado Boulder Sarah Goodrum is a Senior Research Associate in Violence Prevention with the Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence at the University of Colorado Boulder. Formerly, she served as an A.M. and Jo Winchester Distinguished Professor and Department Chair in Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Northern Colorado and as Associate Professor and Department Chair in Anthropology and Sociology at Centre College. Dr. Goodrum’s research focuses on violence prevention, homicide victimization, domestic violence, and the criminal justice system. Her co-authored Report on the Arapahoe High School Shooting, funded by The Denver Foundation, examined the lessons learned on violence prevention in schools. These lessons have been used to improve the violence prevention strategies for threat assessment, information sharing, and leadership in school settings. Recently, Dr. Goodrum extended this work on violence prevention to co-author the Colorado School Safety Guide for the Colorado Attorney General’s Office and serve as co-PI on an evaluation of the training for the Colorado Threat Assessment and Management Protocol in partnership with the Colorado School Safety Resource Center. She is currently a PI and co-PI on several violence prevention projects funded by the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Assistance, Department of Homeland Security, and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Dr. Goodrum’s publications have appeared in the Journal of Threat Assessment and Management, Behavioral Sciences & the Law, Law & Social Inquiry, Sociology of Education, Symbolic Interaction, Sociological Spectrum, Sociological Focus, Criminal Justice Review, and International Journal of Social Research Methodology: Theory & Practice. Her book After Homicide: Victims’ Families in the Criminal Justice System chronicles the experiences of families of murder victims from death notification to the trial, is available through Lynne Rienner Publishers (2019).
PhD Candidate, UNSW Beach Safety Research Group, School of Population Health, UNSW Sydney Sam is working with the BSRG on a PhD which seeks to determine the efficacy and effectiveness of using location-based social media safety messaging to reduce injuries and fatalities at aquatic locations, popular with Instagram users. Research Interests: Risk communication Social media effects on risk taking and drowning
