Contributors

Sophie Meyjes

PhD Candidate, University of Cambridge

PhD Candidate, University of Cambridge PhD Candidate at the University of Cambridge, studying the biological carbon pump and the role that plankton and fish play in carbon sequestration.

Samantha Vlcek

Lecturer in inclusive education, RMIT University

Lecturer in inclusive education, RMIT University Dr Samantha Vlcek is an academic in Inclusive Education. She has been employed across a range of research and teaching positions, within primary schools and the tertiary sector. Sam’s research and teaching interests focus on investigating relationships between key stakeholders in the education of students with diverse needs, and developing innovative strategies for improving collaborative partnerships between teams. Through a systems approach lens, Sam’s research examines education systems to understand dependent, independent, and interdependent variables influencing the experiences, perspectives, and priorities of internal and external stakeholders at each level of the education system. Sam's research has explored funding models for students with diagnosed and imputed disability, the Nationally Consistent Collection of Data on School Students with Disability (NCCD), the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), as well as teacher decision-making for use of evidence-based practices to support students' opportunities and outcomes. Her research focuses on equitable practices for all students, with a specific emphasis on the rights of students with disability and students facing forms of educational disadvantage, such as students living in out of home care arrangements and students from diverse cultural backgrounds. Sam's expertise expands into gifted and talented education and the roles and responsibilities of teachers and school leaders for developing, implementing, and reviewing appropriate educational adjustments to ensure equitable access, participation, and opportunity for every student. Sam is a member of the Consortium of Inclusive Teacher Education and Development (CITED) network of international inclusive education academics, practitioners, and advocates. She is proud to promote the rights for all students in Australia and abroad to receive equitable educational experiences and outcomes.

Shani Pupco

PhD Candidate, Smith School of Business, Queen's University, Ontario

PhD Candidate, Smith School of Business, Queen's University, Ontario PhD Candidate, Smith School of Business MSc Organizational Behaviour, Smith School of Business

Sorin Adam Matei

Associate Dean for Research, Purdue University

Associate Dean for Research, Purdue University My primary research interests are communication technologies, digital knowledge creation, data storytelling, and trust. My primary teaching interests are human AI interaction, digital analytics applications, security and strategy AI and communication technology, AI and data ethics. I typically work with graduate students who are interested in computational methods and social scientific approaches to human AI / technology interaction. My approach to graduate advising is structured and features research collaboration supported by extramural funding. My students and I have co-authored papers and books. I also encourage them to seek out and explore individual publishing opportunities.

Sarah Gray

Senior Research Officer, Murdoch Children's Research Institute

Senior Research Officer, Murdoch Children's Research Institute Dr Sarah Gray is a Child Psychologist and Researcher, currently working within the Centre for Community Child Health at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute. In her current role as Project Manager of the Changing Children's Chances project, Sarah works in collaboration with policy makers to identify potential policy-sensitive pathways in early childhood to reduce inequities in children’s health, development and wellbeing. This project applies robust causal analytic methods to powerful nationally-representative existing data sources (e.g. the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children, the Australian Early Development Census, and the Person Level Integrated Data Asset). Sarah is interested in building the capacity for large-scale administrative and cohort data to improve our understanding of policy impact and drive more precise policy decision making to reduce inequities for Australia's children.

Steph Tai

Professor of Law and Associate Dean, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Professor of Law and Associate Dean, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison Steph Tai's scholarly research examines the interactions between environmental and health sciences and administrative law. These include the consideration of scientific expertise and environmental justice concerns by administrative and judicial systems, and as well as the role of scientific dialogues in food systems regulation, and the ways in which private governance incorporates scientific research. Professor Tai was an adjunct law professor at Georgetown from 2002-2005 and a visiting professor at Washington and Lee University School of Law during the 2005-06 academic year. Teaching interests include administrative law, environmental law, food systems law, environmental justice, risk regulation, contracts (especially private governance and supply chains!), and comparative Asian environmental law. Raised in the South by two chemists, Professor Tai decided to combine their chemistry background with a legal education to improve the use of science in environmental protection. At Georgetown, Professor Tai was the Editor-in-Chief of theGeorgetown International Environmental Law Review and was a member of the Georgetown Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot Court Team. After graduating from Georgetown, Professor Tai worked as the editor-in-chief of the International Review for Environmental Strategies, a publication by the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies in Japan. Professor Tai has also served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Ronald Lee Gilman on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Professor Tai then worked as an appellate attorney in the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, briefing and arguing cases involving a range of issues, from the protection of endangered cave species in Texas to the issuance of dredge and fill permits under the Clean Water Act. From 2013-2014, Professor Tai served as a U.S. Supreme Court Fellow as a researcher in the Federal Judicial Center. Professor Tai actively represents amici in federal circuit court and Supreme Court cases. During the summer before joining the Wisconsin Law School faculty, Professor Tai teamed up with several other law professors to work on two Supreme Court amicus briefs: one for a group of legislators in Environmental Defense v. Duke Energy Corp., No. 05-0848, and another for a group of scientists in Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency, No. 05-1120. Professor Tai still continues this work, representing commercial fishers in Entergy Corp. v. Environmental Protection Agency, Nos. 07-588, 07-589, 07-597; organic farmers in Monsanto v. Geertson Seed Farms, No. 09-475; former senior environmental agency officials in Decker v. Northwest Environmental Defense Center, Nos. 11-338, 11-347; and prominent climate scientists in West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency, D.C. Cir. Nos. 15-1363 et al.