Director of Trauma and Paediatric Surgeon, Royal Children's Hospital Associate Professor Warwick Teague DPhil Oxford, FRACS, FRCSEd A/Prof Warwick Teague is Director of Trauma, Clinical Lead for Burns, and Academic Paediatric Surgeon at The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne. Warwick is active in discovery science and clinical research, building on the expertised gained from a DPhil from the University of Oxford. He is Co-group Leader of Surgical Research within the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Melbourne, and his clinical research interests focus mostly on paediatric trauma care, epidemiology and prevention. Within the State of Victoria, Warwick is a member of various trauma and injury prevention focused committees for the government, Kidsafe Victoria, WorkSafe Victoria and Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, and he chairs the Victorian State Trauma Registry Monitoring (VSTORM) Steering Committee. Nationally an internationally, Warwick is considered a leader and key advocate in the fields of paediatric major trauma care and childhood injury prevention. Warwick has engaged widely with media and community groups to promote practical steps towards safer and healthier childhoods for all our children.
Senior Lecturer, School of Education, University of Bristol My research is broadly within the sociology of education, but I have strongly interdisciplinary interests. A unifying theme in my research is understanding the causes and consequences of educational inequalities. There are three interconnected strands to my scholarship. Firstly, I am pioneering research into the rise of food charity in schools. Against a backdrop of growing food insecurity in the UK, a growing number of schools are running their own food banks. I study how and why this is happening and what it tells us about education, inequality and the state (see Baker 2023; Baker and Bakopoulou 2022 and 2023). My research in this area has been covered by the BBC, The Independent and many of major news sources. Secondly, along with Dr. Katherin Barg, I have developed a program of research that explores the interconnections between parenting, socio-economic background, and educational inequalities. We are also interested in exploring how family life and parenting has changed over time and differs between countries and cultures (see Barg and Baker 2021; Baker and Barg 2019). Finally, I have published widely on how young people develop educational aspirations, career goals and orient themselves to the future (see Moles et al. 2023; Baker 2020). I’m particularly interested in how these are connected to moral attitudes and values. Methodologically, I draw on both qualitative and quantitative sources of data, including sources of secondary data such asthe Millennium Cohort Study. I make extensive use of interviews in much of my empirical work.
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of the Witwatersrand Wacango Muguro Kimani is a post-doctoral researcher and teacher educator in the field of inclusive education at the University of the Witwatersrand.
Associate Professor of Sustainable Careers and Human Resource Management, University of Southampton William E. Donald is an Associate Professor of Sustainable Careers and Human Resource Management at the Ronin Institute (USA) and a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Southampton (UK) as a guest of Professor Yehuda Baruch. Will’s research interests include graduate employability, career development, and sustainable career ecosystems. He has published 50+ peer-reviewed works (journal articles, book chapters, and conference papers)–which have been read 30,000+ times (ResearchGate) and cited nearly 1,000 times (Google Scholar). Will authored the book ‘Strategic Opportunities for Bridging the University-Employer Divide‘ (IGI Global, 2024), and was the sole Editor of the ‘Handbook of Research on Sustainable Career Ecosystems for University Students and Graduates’ (IGI Global, 2023). For more information, please visit Will's website: https://drwilldonald.wordpress.com/
Postdoctoral Fellow at the Global Institute for Teacher Education Society (GITES), Faculty of Education, Cape Peninsula University of Technology POST-GRADUATE STUDIES: Current position: Postdoctoral fellow at the Global Institute for Teacher Education Society (GITES), in the Faculty of Education, Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT), Mowbray Campus. 2023: Cape Peninsula University of Technology, D.Ed. Research topic: The use of film literacy in the development of critical self-awareness and transpersonal growth amongst a group of post-school youth. 2015: Stellenbosch University, MAVA (Ed). Research topic: Critical citizenship education: investigating new understandings in a teaching and learning environment at Montagu High School, Western Cape. PUBLICATIONS: Smidt, W. 2015. Critical citizenship education: investigating new understandings in a teaching and learning environment at Montagu High School, Western Cape. Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Education. Dept. of Visual Arts. 2015, 98 pages. doi: http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/97910 Smidt W. 2020. Engaging the transformative potential of shortfilm-making toward critical awareness and transpersonal growth among post-school youth. Integral Transpers J. 2020;14(14):26–53. https://doi.org/10.32031/ITIBTE_ ITJ_14-SW2 Smidt, W. 2023. The use of film literacy in the development of critical self-awareness and transpersonal growth amongst a group of post-school youth. Thesis (D.Ed.)--Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2023, 328 pages. doi: https://etd.cput.ac.za/handle/20.500.11838/3879 Smidt, W., & Waghid, Z. 2024. Nurturing youth film literacy: Post-qualitative arts-based inquiry into critical self-awareness. The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa, 20(1), 13 pages. doi: https://doi.org/10.4102/td.v20i1.1382 RESEARCH INTERESTS Shortfilm-making as an experiential pedagogical activity, critical engagement and social impact, arts-based research methods, personal and transpersonal growth within the context of young adult education.
Lecturer in Pharmacy and Pharmacology, University of South Australia Dr Wern Chai is a Lecturer in Pharmacy and Pharmacology at the University of South Australia with a research background and expertise in drug discovery, drug development and antimicrobial resistance. He maintains his clinical practice as a community pharmacist. Additionally, he contributes his expertise to the Therapeutic Guidelines: Antibiotics as a Member of the Evaluation Network and the Australian Pharmacy Council as a Subject Matter Expert (Examination). Dr Chai is an early career researcher and holds a PhD in Pharmacology from the University of South Australia. In the face of the global crisis of antimicrobial resistance, his research focuses on developing a new antimicrobial agent with a novel mechanism of action. His continuous dedication and commitment to teaching and research earned him recognition as a Rising Star in Pharmacy in 2021 (published in the Australian Journal of Pharmacy, and the Emerging Leader in Science in 2022 (by the Australasian Pharmaceutical Science Association).
