Senior Lecturer in Cancer Epidemiology, University of South Australia Dr Terry Boyle is an epidemiologist in the Allied Health and Human Performance Academic Unit and the Australian Centre for Precision Health at the University of South Australia (UniSA). He has a broad interest in lifestyle factors and chronic disease, with a focus on the role that physical activity and sedentary behaviour play in cancer risk, cancer survival and cancer survivorship. Terry received his PhD from The University of Western Australia in 2012, then spent two years at the BC Cancer Agency and the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. He joined UniSA in 2017, before which he was at Curtin University.
Executive Director, Museum of Natural and Cultural History, University of Oregon Dr. Braje spent nearly 15 years as a faculty member at San Diego State’s Department of Anthropology, where he conducted archaeological research specializing in long-term human-environmental interactions, the archaeology of maritime societies, historical ecological approaches to understanding coastal hunter-gatherer-fishers, and the peopling of the New World. Dr. Braje also is a former Oregon middle school teacher, a returned Peace Corps volunteer, and the former Irvine Curator of Anthropology at the California Academy of Sciences. Along with over 100 academic manuscripts, Dr. Braje has published several books, monographs, and edited volumes. His newest book, Understanding Imperiled Earth: How Archaeology and Human History Can Inform Our Planet’s Future (April 2024, Smithsonian Books), explores the ways archaeology and history can act as critical guides for addressing the modern environmental crisis.
Senior Research Scientist, Canadian Centre for Evidence-Based Conservation, Carleton University I'm a research scientist with the Canadian Centre for Evidence-Based Conservation at Carleton University. My research focuses on understanding the circumstances in which anthropogenic impacts (e.g., roads, dams) affect wildlife populations. I’m particularly interested in determining which species or species groups are most vulnerable to human impacts, and determining ways to mitigate negative effects. My research has focused on two main themes: (1) using evidence synthesis to inform management decisions, and (2) the impacts of roads on wildlife populations.
Associate Professor in Criminal Justice Data Analytics, University of Leeds I am a quantitative criminologist, with interest in spatial analysis, networks and computational methods. My research and teaching is concerned with identifying patterns and regularities in the occurrence of crime, with a view to informing effective crime prevention measures. As an undergraduate, I studied Mathematics at the University of Oxford, graduating in 2008. I then began a PhD at University College London, as part of the SECReT Doctoral Training Centre and co-supervised between Mathematics and Crime Science. After this, I spent 3 years as a postdoctoral research associate on the EPSRC-funded Crime, Policing and Citizenship project, also at UCL. In 2016, I joined the Department of Security & Crime Science at UCL as a Lecturer, and became Associate Professor in 2021. In 2023, I joined the School of Law in my current role of Associate Professor in Criminal Justice Data Analytics. My research is interdisciplinary in nature, and this is reflected in the range of outlets in which I have published. Within criminology, I have published in journals such as Criminology and Journal of Quantitative Criminology, and also contributed to a number of edited books. More widely, my work has also appeared in physics (e.g. Chaos, Physica A), network science (e.g. Applied Network Science, Social Networks) and generalist (e.g. Scientific Reports, PLoS One) journals. I have also guest-edited a special issue of Applied Network Science, and organised sessions at international conferences in mathematics, criminology and complex systems. My work has an applied focus, and its ultimate aim is to develop insights and tools which can contribute to real-world crime prevention. This has led to me collaborating extensively with external partners, including both police services and other agencies. Within policing, I have been involved in projects with West Yorkshire Police, Thames Valley Police and West Midlands Police, all of which have involved the provision of tools that were subsequently deployed operationally. I have also provided analysis and insight to other agencies, including the London Mayor’s Office for Policing & Crime and the UK Home Office Analysis & Insight Group. I am strongly committed to Open Science, and aim to practice and promote these principles throughout my work. While at UCL, I co-founded JDI Open, which is an interest group focussed on the promotion of open science within crime science. All materials related to my research are made freely available to the greatest extent possible.
Lecturer in Visual Art and McGlade Gallery Director, Australian Catholic University Dr Tracey Clement is an artist, arts writer and research-focused Lecturer at Australian Catholic University (ACU). Tracey’s practice features both drawing and sculpture and her works often blur the boundaries between the two genres. For her, making is a way of thinking. In this way, all of Tracey’s work is multi-disciplinary; she relies on the generative synergy of testing ideas through both writing and the hands-on making of artworks. Her practice makes the most of the power of art as a visual communication tool. Her overarching aim is to present the impact of the climate emergency specifically, and an anthropocentric world-view more generally, in a way that beguiles with beauty—in order to foster dialogue and posit strategies for social adaptation—rather than bamboozling audiences with doom-laden facts.
Associate Professor of Public Administration; Director, Center for Local Government, University of Colorado Denver Todd L. Ely is an associate professor in the School of Public Affairs at the University of Colorado Denver where he directs the Center for Local Government Research and Training. Driven by the desire to improve financial stewardship, his research and teaching focus on the financing of state and local public services, municipal debt, education finance and policy, and public and nonprofit financial management. He is the co-author of "Essentials of Public Service," an introductory public administration textbook. Todd received his PhD in public administration from New York University’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. Prior to academia, Todd worked in management consulting and higher education administration.
