Professor of Psychology, Nottingham Trent University Stephen’s PhD was based on investigating age differences in associative memory: Older adults can perform well at remembering individual pieces of information but struggle more relative to young adults when combining information (e.g., associating a name to a face). More recently his research has developed to investigate how older adults can use their knowledge and experience to reduce age deficits in memory. Stephen is open to collaborative opportunities and PhD applications related to cognitive ageing and memory.
Senior Lecturer, University of Adelaide Dr Samantha Schulz is a senior sociologist of education at The University of Adelaide with expertise in race critical theorising, First Nations Education, culturally responsive schooling, gender equity, and decoloniality.
Senior Research Fellow and Alzheimer's Research UK David Carr Fellow, UCL I am a senior research fellow in the MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing at UCL. I hold a BSc(Hons) from the University of Glasgow, MSc from King's College London, and a PhD from Brunel University London. I am currently funded as an Alzheimer's Research UK David Carr Fellow researching early-life risk factors which may underlie the development of both cardiovascular disease and dementia.
Associate Dean Research Training and Performance, Faculty of Arts, Macquarie University I am a Professor in Law at Macquarie University. Between 2008-2011, I was an ARC Post Doctoral Research Fellow at Macquarie University (2008) and the University of Wollongong (2009-11). Between 2011-18, I was a senior lecturer and Associate Professor in Philosophy at UOW. I completed my undergraduate degrees in philosophy (with honours) and law at Macquarie University, and was awarded my PhD in Philosophy from the University of New South Wales in 2006. My research specialisation is primarily at the intersection of philosophy and law. Specifically, I am interested in how philosophical concepts can be utilised to address various and persistent legal dilemmas, including dilemmas about the limits of speech, the importance of democratic deliberation, the place of rights in liberal democracies, and more recently, the place of emotions in law. My book, Sedition and the Advocacy of Violence: Free Speech and Counter-terrorism, is a book length philosophical treatment of modern sedition laws in Australia, and the offence of 'glorifying terrorism' in the United Kingdom. Using established concepts in philosophy of language I demonstrated various problems with the current laws and made proposals for addressing them. I also developed a systematic analysis of the concept of harm and the nature of speaker authority in establishing harm. I have applied this account to other areas of contested speech, including hate speech, holocaust denial, pseudo-scientific speech, and emotionally charged speech in the public sphere. More recently, I have been working in the area of emotions and the law, specifically on the expression and management of emotions during criminal trials. I have supervised and am able to supervise PhD theses in the areas of political philosophy, philosophy of law, and feminism.
Professor, Biology, McMaster University My evolutionary ecology research uses empirical approaches to testing questions motivated by theory. Most of my research is on plants. I ask curiosity-driven questions about plant behaviour in response to relatives and strangers - do plants recognize and respond to their kin. Research on applied questions about plant restoration has led to questions about how restoration and habitat variation affect bee communities.
PhD candidate, Biology, McMaster University I am a doctoral student working on native bee diversity, ecology, and restoration. My main focus has been on bee assemblages of old field sites and a restored tallgrass prairie at McMaster university. Over three years I completed the first long term survey of the Hamilton bee fauna. My statistical approach using Hill numbers provides a robust and statistically powerful method of assessing and comparing the many facets of diversity for species rich communities.
