PhD Candidate in Psychology, University of Essex I am a SeNSS-funded Psychology PhD researcher. I have a great interest in understanding women's sexuality, and in particular in understanding sex differences in arousal. My PhD research focuses on investigating previous (the preparation hypothesis) and novel (empathy and sexual competition) explanations of women's bisexual arousal patterns. I use physiological measures of sexual arousal in my research including plethysmography, and pupil dilation. I am also currently exploring new methods to measure lubrication in women, to assess the validity of the preparation hypothesis.
Senior Research Fellow, Deakin University Dr Zahid Shahab Ahmed is a researcher focusing on peace and security in South Asia and the Middle East. His work examines the impacts of sectarianism and violent extremism on domestic, regional and global peace and security. He is also engaged in research and educational projects on countering violent extremism. A Pakistani citizen, Dr Ahmed brings a much-needed citizen’s perspective to research on the country. He also brings rich grassroots level experience in the development sector in Asia to his research. He has worked on numerous research assignments with Die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Commonwealth Foundation, United States Institute of Peace, Transparency International, Global Integrity, and International Centre for Nonviolent Conflict during a decade long engagement with the development sector. Dr Ahmed has published and presented papers on a wide range of issues, such as foreign policy, international organizations, Islam, peace and conflict, regionalism, and regional security. His recent papers have looked at the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation, and Pakistan’s relations with Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Iran and Saudi Arabia. Dr Ahmed received his PhD in the area of Political and International Studies from the University of New England (UNE) in Australia. He has an MA in Peace Education from the United Nations mandated University for Peace (Costa Rica), and an MA in Sociology from the University of Agriculture Faisalabad (Pakistan). During 2013-2015, he served as Assistant Professor at the Centre for International Peace & Stability (CIPS), National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST) in Islamabad. He has previously taught at University of New England (Australia), Charles Sturt University (Australia), Iqra University (Pakistan) and Allama Iqbal Open University (Pakistan). In July 2018, he presented a paper at the 25th World Congress of Political Science in Australia. He has an excellent record of publications. He is the author of Regionalism and Regional Security in South Asia: The Role of SAARC (Routledge, 2013). He has published in prominent academic journals, including Democratization, Third World Quarterly, Asian Studies Review, Journal of Contemporary China, Global Policy, and Middle East Policy. He is regularly invited to write opinion pieces and do media commentary. In recognition of his research, Dr. Ahmed has received several prestigious research awards/grants, such as Mahbub ul Haq Research Award (Regional Centre for Strategic Studies, Sri Lanka); Conflict Transformation Award (WISCOMP, India).
Senior Lecturer (Applied Ecology and Landscape Management), University of New England 2010. BSc - Wildlife and Fisheries Science - Pennsylvania State University - USA 2013. MSc - Biology - Middle Tennessee State University - USA 2018. PhD - Ecology - James Cook University - Australia
Uppsala University Daniela Scaccabarozzi is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at Uppsala University (Sweden) and Adjunct Researcher at Curtin University (Australia). Her research spans from pollination biology of plants, focusing on orchids and native crops (i.e., Cacao and Vanilla), to bee biology. Daniela got a dual Ph.D. at Curtin University and University of Naples Federico II, funded by a strategic international scholarship. During her research journey, Daniela got prestigious awards including the post-doctoral Talent-Introduction Program by the Chinese Government and the Endeavour Fellowship by the Australian government.
Associate Professor, Monash University Adrian Dyer is a vision scientist and photographer seeking to understand how the representation of an image is created, and can be used to interpret the complex world in which we live. Research interests centre on understanding how visual systems learn perceptually difficult tasks. This work involves both using human psychophysics and imaging studies, as well as experimenting with how the miniature brain of a bee can form visual representations to make decisions in complex environments.
Research fellow, Monash University Nicola Helps is a postdoctoral research fellow with the Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre. Nicola holds a PhD in criminology from Monash University. Nicola’s current research examines identification and responses to domestic and family violence perpetration. Nicola also works on projects examining early intervention and prevention of workplace sexual harassment.
