Contributors

Caroline West

Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Sydney

Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Sydney Caroline's research addresses fundamental questions about how we should live. Currently she is researching the nature of happiness and its role in well-being and the good life. What is happiness? Why should we want it? And how do we get it?

Emily J. Rugel

Honorary Adjunct Lecturer, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney

Honorary Adjunct Lecturer, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney Emily Rugel is an honorary adjunct lecturer at the University of Sydney, where her work explores health-promoting community design across the lifespan with the aim of developing evidence that can be embedded in sustainability plans and integrated in policies that advance equity. She received her doctorate from the University of British Columbia, where she developed a regional model of access to natural spaces and applied it to prescription and health-survey data to clarify pathways linking urban nature to social ties and mental health. In addition to a Ph.D., she holds a Master of Public Health and a B.A. in Journalism, but firmly believes in the acquisition of knowledge through chance encounters as well as scientific investigation.

James Zarsadiaz

Associate Professor of History, University of San Francisco

Associate Professor of History, University of San Francisco James Zarsadiaz is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Yuchengco Philippine Studies Program. He specializes in urban and suburban history, Asian American history, and the twentieth-century United States. Prof. Zarsadiaz was a fellow at both the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History and Asian Pacific American Center. Prior to entering academia, James worked in the U.S. House of Representatives. He is the author of Resisting Change in Suburbia: Asian Immigrants and Frontier Nostalgia in L.A. (University of California Press, 2022). Prof. Zarsadiaz's research articles include: "Design Assimilation in Suburbia: Asian Americans, Built Landscapes, and Suburban Advantage in Los Angeles's San Gabriel Valley since 1970" (co-authored with Becky Nicolaides), which won the Urban History Association's Arnold Hirsch Award and the Vernacular Architecture Forum's Catherine W. Bishir Prize; "Raising Hell in the Heartland: Filipino Chicago and the Anti-Martial Law Movement, 1972- 1986," which received an Honorable Mention from the Filipino Section of the Association for Asian American Studies; and "Methodists against Martial Law: Filipino Chicagoans and the Church's Role in a Global Crusade." James has also published work in Amerasia Journal, International Migration Review, Journal of Asian American Studies, Journal of Social History, New Jersey Studies, and Pacific Historical Review, as well as for media outlets including City Lab, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and Washington Post. He has done live interviews on ABC, BBC, CBS, MSNBC, NBC, NPR, and Southern California Public Radio regarding current affairs and his research.

Christine Huebner

Lecturer in Quantitative Social Sciences, University of Sheffield

Lecturer in Quantitative Social Sciences, University of Sheffield Christine is a researcher of political engagement and a lecturer in quantitative social science at the University of Sheffield's Sheffield Methods Institute. Her research explores changes in political engagement, conceptions of citizenship and democracy, in particular among young people. Christine has accompanied and collected evidence on the outcomes of the lowering of the voting age to 16 in Scotland and Wales and is providing evidence-based advice to policymakers wanting to connect with young people around Europe, partially in her role as partner of independent and non-partisan think tank d|part.

Jan Eichhorn

Senior Lecturer in Social Policy, The University of Edinburgh

Senior Lecturer in Social Policy, The University of Edinburgh Jan is a researcher interested in how we can enhance and improve different avenues for political participation and challenge orthodox conceptions of socio-economic analyses. He teaches courses on these matters at the University of Edinburgh. A major objective of his work is to create practical applications of teaching and research, which he does through his work as Research Director of the Berlin-based think tank d|part.

Ramona Alaggia

Professor, Social Work, University of Toronto

Professor, Social Work, University of Toronto Ramona Alaggia’s work is focused on mitigating the long term effects of trauma, violence and abuse on children and youth. Through her studies on gender and violence; child sexual abuse disclosures and mental health effects; intimate partner violence and structural barriers she promotes ways to foster resilience processes in children and youth exposed to violence, and advocates for the use of trauma informed approaches for service delivery. Dr. Alaggia holds the Margaret and Wallace McCain Family Chair in Child and Family, contributing to leadership in research and evaluation on the wellbeing of children, youth and their families. This Chair supports prevention and intervention programs, and helps develop new innovative models of service to enhance children’s mental health. The Chair provides training on trauma and resilience informed approaches to children’s mental health services for ensuring leading edge research for families, communities and systems to support the optimal growth of children.