Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Wake Forest University Dr. Sherri Lawson Clark (Ph.D., American University) is an applied cultural anthropologist, who has conducted ethnographic fieldwork for over 25 years with low-income urban and rural African American, Latino, and white families across the United States. Dr. Clark’s research specialty surrounds housing instability among poor families and examines the intersections of housing policy with health and welfare policies, marriage initiatives, migration, and the effects of residential mobility on the well-being of poor children and families. Her research is guided theoretically through the lens of the built environment in which spaces where the poor live, work, shop, entertain and relax are seen as socially produced, constructed, contested, and embodied. Dr. Clark teaches courses in cultural anthropology and social stratification in America surrounding her research foci. Many of her courses are cross-listed in the American Ethnic Studies program where she is the Director and Rubin Professor of American Ethnic Studies. In the classroom, she uses her teaching and scholarship to equip students with the necessary knowledge, training, and cultural sensitivities to aid them as future problem-solvers in our global world. Her pedagogy is praxis-oriented whereby students are able to deconstruct and comprehend conceptual arguments by applying them in real life contexts.
Independent writer and editor, University of Michigan Steve Friess is a veteran journalist based in Ann Arbor, Michigan with bylines from all 50 states and 14 countries. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Time, Newsweek, Playboy, The New Republic, Wired, and many others. His writing tends to focus on politics, education, LGBTQ+ issues, technology, travel, and the casino industry. Friess has taught journalism at Michigan State University and University of Nevada-Las Vegas. His editing credits include stints at Hour Detroit, Politico, the Las Vegas Review-Journal, and others. Friess holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from Northwestern University and was a 2011-12 Knight-Wallace fellow at the University of Michigan. He's married with two children under 5 and two Pomeranians over 7.
Research Associate in Exercise Oncology & Cancer Rehabilitation Specialist, University of Hull I have a strong interest in exercise physiology and using it as a medicine. This includes my current work in Exercise Oncology looking at how exercise can modulate cancer survival outcomes and quality of life. I am also passionate about enhancing sports performance and maximizing health through a holistic approach involving physiology, nutrition and psychology.
Professor of Music, Australian National University I am Professor of Music and Associate Dean Higher Degree Research at the Australian National University, Chair of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, and Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. I am the author, co-author, and co-editor of six books including: Gear: Cultures of Audio and Music Technologies (The MIT Press, 2024, co-authored with A/Prof Eliot Bates); Secrets and Revelation in Music and Audio Technology Cultures (Cambridge University Press, 2024); Modern Records, Maverick Methods (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018); Siouxsie and the Banshees' Peepshow (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018); Critical Approaches to the Production of Music and Sound (co-edited with A/Prof Eliot Bates, Bloomsbury Academic, 2017); and, Popular Music, Stars and Stardom (co-edited with Dr Stephen Loy and Dr Julie Rickwood, ANU Press, 2018). https://anu-au.academia.edu/SamanthaBennett https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/bennett-sk
Senior Lecturer Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau Sally’s career as a public health nutritionist has spanned three decades from working as a health promoter to academic. She began work with the Heart Foundation as a health promoter focusing on caterers and during this time completed a PGDip in Public Health. With a move to Nelson, she worked as a health promoter at the local public health unit and then with the Ministry of Health as senior advisor on the 2008/09 National Nutrition Survey. She completed a PhD at the University of Auckland with the INFORMAS research group on methods to monitor the cost and affordability of diets. This began a research career in monitoring food environments both in Aotearoa and globally with the INFORMAS network. She teaches population health nutrition at the University of Auckland and supervises Masters and PhD students. She is part of research teams developing the methods for the next national nutrition survey and evaluating the National Healthy Food and Drink Policy. Sally recently presented the keynote Muriel Bell lecture at the Nutrition Society of NZ conference in 2022 in recognition of her services to nutrition.
Lecturer in Psychology, Solent University Dr Shakiba Moghadam is a chartered psychologist and a lecturer in psychology, with a specific focus on community psychology, as well as sport and exercise psychology. Shakiba’s research predominantly focuses on mental health literacy and athlete mental health, experiences of women athletes in male dominated sports, human rights violations in sports, and the experiences of marginalised communities such as refugees and asylum seekers. Shakiba is also the Chair of the British Psychological Society’s Human Rights Group and an appointed trustee for non-profit organisations who support displaced communities.
