Lecturer in International Development, University of Bath Naomi is a Lecture in International Development in the Social and Policy Science Department at the University of Bath. She was formerly an Assistant Professor at the Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Since 2010, she has carried out ethnographic and qualitative research in South Sudan on governance during war and peace. This has included research on patterns of violence, public authority, revenge, peace meetings, armed mobisations, humanitarian protection, Nuer prophets and famine. Her book 'Spiritual Contestations – The Violence of Peace in South Sudan' will be published in 2023.
PhD Candidate in Environmental Radioactivity, Edith Cowan University I am a current PhD student studying the legacy of nuclear testing at the Montebello Islands in Western Australia. I also have a Bachelor of Advanced Science in Chemistry from UQ.
Senior Research Fellow, Griffith University Dr Susan de Groot Heupner is a cross-disciplinary research scholar aiming to advance current understandings of binary thinking in popular political identities through a perspective of mutual relations between conceptions of self and other. She completed her PhD in Political Sociology in 2022 examining how far right and islamist political parties operate together to construct an irreconcilable Muslim subject. She is a current GCSCR Research Fellow under the Mobilities, Communities and In/Securities theme where she is working on a 12-month project exploring population replacement theories in far right and islamist politics. In her work, Susan draws on psychoanalytic thought to understand the role of fantasies, desires, and affects in mobilising hatred. Susan has recently acquired a book contract with Leiden University Press for an adaption of her dissertation under the working title Manufacturing Division.
Fellow, Grattan Institute Iris Chan is a Fellow in Grattan Institute’s Budgets and Government Program. She has previously worked in a wide range of policy roles at the Reserve Bank of Australia, including as a senior research economist specialising in using microdata to answer policy questions, and has managed teams focused on payments policy and emerging financial markets issues. She holds a Master in Public Affairs (Economics) from Princeton University, and honours degrees in Commerce (joint honours in economics and econometrics) and Law from the University of Sydney.
PhD Student focusing on the gaps between teacher training programs and practical teaching. My research investigates how beginning teachers navigate the realities of writing and enacting Individual Education Plans (IEP). My Masters thesis examined gender discourses and ideologies present in contemporary primary education and how teachers address students based on gender during managerial (eg., IEP writing) and instructional times. As a teacher, my responsibilities include writing and enacting Individual Education Plans for students and liaising with stakeholders (parents, school special education team). In order to best serve students and parents, I examined a breadth of research to inform my practice.
I have an M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy from University of Waterloo, along with an M.T.S. degree from Conrad Grebel College, and am ABD (all-but-defended) in a second doctoral program (Th.D.) in Theology at St. Michael's College in Toronto. I am the principal investigator on two SSHRC grant-funded research projects in end-of-life care ethics, and have published two books and a handful of articles. I have been teaching at St. Jerome's University and the University of Waterloo since 2008.
