Associate Professor, Sports Coaching; Affiliate, UQ Poche Centre for Indigenous Health, The University of Queensland Dr. Steven Rynne is an Associate Professor and Program Convenor for Sports Coaching with the School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences at The University of Queensland, Australia. Steven has worked and conducted research with a variety of peak domestic and international sporting bodies in the areas of high performance coach learning and Indigenous sport. Steven teaches undergraduate and graduate students, is a registered HPE teacher, and coaches track cyclists.
Senior Lecturer in Journalism, City, University of London Dr Sarah Lonsdale has been a journalist for twenty five years, training on the Reading Chronicle before joining the Observer newspaper in 1990 as a general reporter. During her time on the Observer she specialised in stories concerning social justice. She is now freelance and has written for a wide variety of publications including: Observer, Financial Times, Evening Standard, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph, Daily Mail, Independent on Sunday, Country Homes and Interiors Magazine, Observer Food Monthly, National Geographic Green and the Sunday Times. She was a weekly columnist for the Sunday Telegraph 2006 - 2015 writing about environmental issues, particularly the threat of climate change. Dr Lonsdale holds a BA (Hons) and MA from the University of Cambridge in Modern and Medieval Languages (French and Italian). She recently completed her PhD, 'The Representation of Journalists and the Newspaper Press in British Literature 1900 - 1939' at the University of Kent. She holds a Post Graduate Certificate in Higher Education (PGCHE). She joined City University London in 2013 after six years as a lecturer at the University of Kent, teaching at the School of English and the Centre for Journalism there. She is author of The Journalist in British Fiction and Film, published by Bloomsbury, July 2016.
Research Fellow in Nutritional Epidemiology, National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology For the past 9 years, I've worked as a nutritional epidemiologist specializing in aging-related research. A major focus of my work has been studying how nutrition can help prevent diseases like dementia and frailty that severely diminish quality of life for older adults. While I examine the nutritional benefits of specific foods, I'm also very interested in understanding the overall health impacts of entire dietary patterns.
Professor in Cloud Microphysics, Monash University I've been an academic at Monash for 28 years, holding a joint appointment between the School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment and the School of Mathematics. I am a Chief Investigator in the ARC SRI research centre Securing Antarctica's Environmental Future (SAEF) leading a project on precipitation processes over Antartica and the Southern Ocean. I serve as the Co-Chair of the Expert Team on Weather Modification for the World Weather Research Pogram. I am the editor for the Journal for Southern Hemisphere Earth System Science. I currently serve on the ARC College of Experts.
Senior Research Fellow, Energy & Circularity, Gulbali Institute, Charles Sturt University As a Senior Research Fellow in Energy and Circularity, Simon brings 20 years of experience working in academia, industry and consultancy on a broad range of sustainability issues. As an academic, Simon’s research interests revolve primarily around the field of sustainability transitions, in particular the role of government and other key stakeholders in accelerating the transition to renewable energy and a more circular economy. Simon’s current research portfolio encompasses regional transitions to renewables; renewable energy and circularity in agriculture; pathways to net zero; community energy; microgrids; and the acceleration, implementation and measurement of the circular economy. Simon is a member of the Sustainability Transitions Research Network (STRN) and Circular Australia Research Taskforce; and a board member on community energy cooperatives. Simon also holds a Visiting Fellowship at Nottingham University (UK). In 2022, Simon was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to Canada and Europe to investigate employment pathways and reskilling programs for mining communities transitioning to renewables.
Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of South Carolina Samuel Bagg is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science, where he teaches courses in political theory. Before coming to UofSC, he taught at the University of Oxford, McGill University, and Duke University, where he received his PhD in 2017. His research aims to ground democratic theorizing in a realistic picture of the dynamics of social inequality and political power. Among other venues, it has appeared in the American Political Science Review; the American Journal of Political Science; the Journal of Politics; Perspectives on Politics; the Journal of Political Philosophy; the European Journal of Political Theory; Philosophy, Politics, and Economics; Social Philosophy and Policy; Social Theory and Practice; and Political Research Quarterly. His first book (The Dispersion of Power: A Critical Realist Theory of Democracy) synthesizes much of this work, offering a distinctive and comprehensive account of why democracy matters and how to make it better. It is forthcoming from Oxford University Press.
