Senior Lecturer, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University Dr Tanja Beer is a Senior Lecturer in Design at Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Australia. Originally trained as a set and costume designer, her extensive career as an ecological designer, community artist and researcher builds on more than 20 years of theatre practice. Tanja’s pioneering concept of Ecoscenography has been featured in numerous programs, exhibitions, articles and platforms around the world. She is the author of Ecoscenography: An Introduction to Ecological Design for Performance (2021).
Research Project Officer, Queensland University of Technology Dr. Thu Pham is originally from Vietnam and currently lives and works on Turrbal and Yugara country in Queensland. She is a Research Project Officer at the Carumba Institute, Queensland University of Technology (QUT). Her research areas include leadership in higher education and Indigenous students’ success. She completed her doctoral degree in Education at QUT, Australia, in 2016. Her doctoral research study focused on leadership to support quality improvement in Vietnamese higher education. She is currently working on several research projects focusing on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Australia regarding the impact of digital inclusion challenges for low-income Indigenous families living on Mornington Island, a remote region in Queensland, and the social determinants of higher education impact on Indigenous students’ attainment. Recently, she published a Springer Brief titled: “Higher Degree by Research: Factors for Indigenous student success”.
Research Program Coordinator, University of Toronto Tim Li is the research program coordinator of PROOF, a research program studying effective policy interventions for household food insecurity in Canada at the University of Toronto. PROOF's work shines a spotlight on the size and seriousness of food insecurity in Canada, the inability for charitable assistance to resolve it, and how it can be remedied through public policies supporting adequate incomes. Over the past decade, PROOF has helped establish food insecurity as a serious public health problem, a marker of pervasive material deprivation, and a matter of public policy.
Lecturer in Politics, University of Glasgow Timothy Peace is a Lecturer in Politics at the University of Glasgow. He is the author of European Social Movements and Muslim Activism (Palgrave 2015) and Muslims and Political Participation in Britain (Routledge 2015).
Psychologist and PhD Student, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute I am a PhD Student in the Child & Youth mental health group at QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, researching climate anxiety in children and young people. I have a Master’s degree in Psychology and practice as a Psychologist with children, adolescents and young adults.My clinical and research interests are in supporting children and adolescents experiencing mental health concerns.
Senior Researcher, SAMRC/Wits Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science – PRICELESS SA, University of the Witwatersrand Dr Teurai Rwafa is an accomplished public health practitioner; with years of experience in health promotion practice, including social and behavioural change, policy advocacy, strategic communication, multi-stakeholder engagement, planning, designing, implementing, and coordinating public health programmes and interventions for both communicable and non-communicable diseases. She is a mixed methods researcher; whose work emphasises qualitative approaches. She has worked in various research capacities, providing her with experience in project conceptualisation and management, proposal development, grant writing, data collection, data management, data analysis, and write-up of findings as well as proficiency in monitoring and evaluation, evidence translation, including capacity strengthening and knowledge sharing. Teurai is enthusiastic about evidence-based decision-making. Her research, interests and publications include critical issues addressing gender-based inequalities, strengthening health-promoting systems to improve public health, community health workers, food environments, health determinants and recently, COVID-19 impacts. This work includes being a published co-author of a textbook on health promotion.
