Associate Professor in Computer Science, University of Melbourne I study computational methods for analysing human language, in both written and spoken varieties. This involves scalable techniques for collecting and annotating large amounts of data from many languages. The long-term goal is to preserve hundreds of endangered languages. I have a special interest in undescribed "tone languages" in Africa and Papua New Guinea. I have taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses in algorithms, databases, informatics, philosophy of language, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, data mining, web technologies, and machine translation. Programming is an almost daily activity, and I recently published a book titled Natural Language Processing with Python. I am co-developer of the new "Algorithmics" curriculum in the Victorian Certificate of Education, introducing university-level computer science into high school.
Director Of Medicine, The Maitland and Kurri Kurri Hospital, University of Newcastle I have a medical degree from University of Witwatersrand in South Africa and I am a specialist physician with Fellowship from several international colleges including FRACP.
Lecturer Zoo Animal Biology, Nottingham Trent University Dr Ward's research interests are linked to human-animal interactions and animal husbandry and management techniques to investigate impacts and improve captive welfare and reintroduction of species. Previous work has investigated the impacts of stockmanship on the behaviour and welfare of zoo species and the impacts on behaviour, welfare and production of different management techniques during lambing on a commercial sheep farm. Trustee of The Sumatran Tiger Trust an international charity working to protect the Sumatran Tiger and its habitat. Secretary of the South Lakes Red Squirrel Group working to preserve the UK red squirrel population and encourage local support and populations of the red squirrel in the south lakes area.
PhD candidate in Primate Behaviour, University of Stirling Sophia Daoudi is a member of the Behaviour and Evolution Research Group Stirling and the Scottish Primate Research Group. Before starting her PhD she undertook an MSc in Primate Conservation at Oxford Brookes University, where she spent 3 months in the Peruvian Andes studying the Critically Endangered yellow-tailed woolly monkey as part of her dissertation research. She is currently a teaching assistant on the psychology undergraduate animal behaviour modules, as well as module coordinator for the INTO Stirling introduction to psychology course. Her current research focuses on the behaviour of tufted capuchins and squirrel monkeys in both captive and wild environments. In particular she investigates polyspecific associations between the two.
Senior Lecturer in French Politics & Contemporary European Studies , University of Sussex My research interests relate principally to contemporary French politics, and more specifically to the politics of culture and heritage during the Mitterrand presidencies, but I have also more recently developed an interest in the exercise of voting rights by European citizens resident in other EU Member-States.
Emeritus Professor in Public Health, University of Sydney Simon Chapman AO PhD FASSA HonFFPH(UK) is Emeritus Professor in Public Health at the University of Sydney. He has published over 500 articles in peer reviewed journals and 19 books and major reports. His H index is 53 and he has over 10,500 citations. In 1997 he won the World Health Organisation's World No Tobacco Day Medal and in 2003 he was voted by his international peers to be awarded the American Cancer Society’s Luther Terry Award for outstanding individual leadership in tobacco control. In 2008 he won the NSW Premier’s Cancer Researcher of the Year medal; the Public Health Association of Australia’s Sidney Sax medal; and was a NSW finalist in Australian of the Year. He was deputy editor (1992-1997) then editor (1998-2008) of the British Medical Journal's, Tobacco Control and is now its Editor Emeritus. He was made an Officer in the Order of Australia in 2013 and was named Australian Skeptic of the Year His recent research involves examining policy how health and medical issues are covered in the news media; how people stop smoking unaided; the psychogenic aspects of wind farms and health; and characteristics of public health research (and its dissemination) which impact on public health policy.
