Credit Union SA Chair of Economics, University of South Australia Susan Stone is the Credit Union SA Chair of Economics at UniSA, where she provides expert analysis and new thinking about South Australia’s economic position and how global economic factors impact the local economy. Prior to joining UniSA, Ms Stone was a division head at the OECD, a Director for the UNESCAP, a Senior Research Fellow at the Asian Development Bank Institute, and a Research Manager at the Productivity Commission. Ms Stone is a frequent guest on radio and television and her opinion pieces have been published in a number of regional and national journals. Her work has been published as national and multinational government reports, edited volumes, and in peer-reviewed journals. Ms. Stone holds a PhD in Economics and a Master’s Degree in Business and Finance, from Drexel University in the United States.
Lecturer in Anthropology, University of Sydney Shiori Shakuto is a Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Sydney, Australia. She is a feminist anthropologist with expertise in gender and household in Japan. She has conducted over ten years of research among older Japanese people, focusing on their mobility and transitions in later life. Her research has highlighted the gendered differences in how women and men socialize after retiring from their workplaces, directly affecting their sense of loneliness and belonging. Her book on gender, ageing, and sociality, titled "After Work," is forthcoming from the University of Pennsylvania Press in January 2025. She has also published her work in leading qualitative journals, such as American Ethnologist, Australian Journal of Anthropology, Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies, Japan Review of Anthropology, Anthropology News, Science of the Total Environment, Australian Aboriginal Studies, and Japanese Studies. Shiori has received several awards and fellowships based on her work with older Japanese people, including the Endeavour Fellowship Award (Australian Government 2015) and the Evans Fellowship Award (Cambridge University 2016). Her research has been funded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, the Singapore Government Ministry of Education, the Singapore National Research Foundation and the UK Natural Environment Research Council. Before joining the University of Sydney as a Lecturer, Shiori worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the National University of Singapore (2018-2020) and as an Assistant Professor at the University of Tokyo (2020-2022). Shiori is currently collaborating with Singaporean colleagues to examine the gendered use of household plastics in Asia.
Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Science, Karolinska Institutet I am Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Science since 2010 at KI. Additionally, I direct the Center of Neurodevelopmental Disorders at KI (KIND), and head the Neuropsychiatry Division at the Department of Women’s and Children’s Health. On the clinical side I work as a senior consultant in clinical psychology and specialist in neuropsychology at child and adolescent psychiatry Stockholm.
Distinguished Lecturer in English, University of Tennessee Sally C. Harris is a Distinguished Lecturer in the English Department at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. In addition to essays on Le Fanu and Victorian fiction, she has developed a textbook for writing in the workplace, which she and colleagues are editing to make available as an Open Educational Resource. In an effort to make her classes more accessible, she has developed a number of online courses and continues to hone her online teaching skills. Dr. Harris teaches workplace writing, technical writing, British literature, detective & crime literature, and drama.
Senior Lecturer in American Studies and History, York St John University I am a Senior Lecturer in American Studies and History at York St. John University. My interdisciplinary research is grounded in field of American Studies and lies at the intersection of culture, history, politics, and social memory. My work focuses on the impact of war in 19th and 20th century America, with a secondary concentration on subversive culture and trauma. My monograph, published with the University Press of Mississippi (2016), challenged the American canon, arguing a case for the work of crime fiction writer Raymond Chandler to be located and read alongside the work of the Lost Generation. By taking into account the impact of wartime post-traumatic stress disorder upon American crime fiction I introduced the original concept of ‘War Noir’ to the study of American literature.
Associate Professor, School of SHS – Human Services and Social Work, Griffith University Steven Baker is a dynamic researcher and educator in the School of Health Sciences and Social Work and Creative Arts Research Institute at Griffith University. His research centres on how technology can be used to support human flourishing and address social issues such as; poverty and disadvantage, financial and physical abuse, and the impacts of a warming planet. Steven's research is distinguished by its innovation, interdisciplinarity, and commitment to cross-sector partnerships drawing on his background as a social worker and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) researcher. He is currently a chief investigator on the $2.3 million Extreme Heat and Older Adults (Ethos) project, a transdisciplinary research effort to develop an early warning system to protect older adults from the health impacts of extreme heat events. His research has been published in high ranking journals and conferences spanning computer science, gerontology and social work. Steven's learning and teaching is focussed on transforming the ways that social work and human services students view social disadvantage, address inequality and advocate for positive change. He received a 2022 student experience of teaching commendation for his commitment to learning and teaching. In 2022, he also led a teaching and learning grant examining how the emerging technology of social virtual reality might play a role in supporting student learning. Steven is committed to supporting higher degree by research students via his work on the Griffith Human Ethics Committee and the School of Health Services and Social Work Research Committee. He lives on the Gold Coast on the lands of the people of the Yugambeh language region with his wife and daughters.
