Professor of People and Organisations, The Open University Jo has an undergraduate degree and a doctorate from UMIST, and worked at the Universities of Portsmouth, Essex and Leicester before joining the Open University in April 2018. Her research Interests include the intersections between the body, identity, sexuality, emotions and processes of organising, as articulated in her ongoing research on menopause in the workplace. Jo also has an abiding interest in academic practices in organisation studies, like peer review and research ethics.
Lecturer, Cyberintelligence and Cybercrime Investigations, University of the Sunshine Coast Dr Dennis Desmond holds a PhD in human factors and sociotechnical systems focused on cyber and financial technologies to disrupt cryptolaundering activities. Dr. Desmond is a lecturer with the University of the Sunshine Coast in Cybersecurity and a Research Analyst developing oppositional human factor darknet interventions. Dr. Desmond served as a special agent for the United States Army and Federal Bureau of Investigation and as a Senior Intelligence Officer with the Defense Intelligence Agency, specializing in identity management.
Professor of Philosophy, Universität Wien I'm professor of moral and political philosophy at the University of Vienna. I received my PhD from MIT in 2012. Before that I read Physics & Philosophy at Balliol College in Oxford.
Lecturer in History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge I recently joined HPS after three years at the Faculty of Philosophy. Before that I held posts at the universities of Warwick, Manchester and Glasgow and studied at the universities of Sussex, York and Cambridge. My research covers a range of overlapping topics in philosophy of cognitive science, metaphysics, aesthetics and applied ethics. My introductory book What is Philosophy of Mind? is available from Polity Press. For HPS I'll be leading Part II modules on the Ethics and Politics of Technology; Ethical Issues in Psychiatry and the Philosophy of Cognitive Science. I'm also DoS in HPS at Selwyn College and College Research Associate at Clare College. I'm partial to comics, cats and a good pot of tea. Research interests I'm currently focussing on the concept of affordances for mental action. Long-standing work in philosophy and psychology suggests that we see our environment in terms of the bodily actions we can perform in it e.g. you might perceive a teapot as affording gripping. I suggest we also see our environment in terms of the mental actions available to us. That is, you might perceive affordances to attend, to imagine, to deliberate etc. I've been exploring how findings in psychology and psychiatry can be helpfully reframed in terms of mental affordances and identifying avenues for future empirical research. I've also been exploring how social inequalities might shape our perception. With Paulina Sliwa I've been working on the hypothesis that gender inequalities in the performance of domestic tasks may be underwritten by socially-mediated differences in how affordances for domestic tasks are perceived. More generally, I'm interested in the idea that perceptual experiences (or patterns of perceptual experience) are ethically evaluable. Other topics I've worked on include: the contents of perception; mental action; cognitive phenomenology; self-consciousness; self-hood; artificial consciousness and artificial creativity; the metaphysics of consciousness; salience and attention; the limits of scientific enquiry; pathologies of agency and ownership; and the philosophy of film.
Research Officer, La Trobe Rural Health School, La Trobe University My PhD examined the implementation and evaluation of place-based initiatives for disadvantaged children and their families. I work part-time for the La Trobe Rural Health School as a Research Officer. I also conduct research in the area of gender-based violence. I have more than 25 years experience as a senior health administrator with expertise in strategy, policy, governance and operations.
Professor and Dean La Trobe Rural Health School, La Trobe University Professor Jane Mills is the Dean and Head of the La Trobe Rural Health School. Considered one of Australia and New Zealand’s foremost nurse academics with extensive experience leading and managing teams in both government and tertiary sectors her research portfolio focuses on rural and public health, health workforce, and health system strengthening. With a career vision to contribute to a just society by fostering research and graduates that make a positive difference, Professor Mills believes education and research are powerful vehicles for change.
