Contributors

Sergio Diez Alvarez

Director Of Medicine, The Maitland and Kurri Kurri Hospital, University of Newcastle I have a medical degree from University of Witwatersrand in South Africa and I am a specialist physician with Fellowship from several international colleges including FRACP.

Paul Loh

Lecturer in digital architecture design, University of Melbourne Paul Loh is lecturer in Digital Architecture design at the University of Melbourne. Prior to this Paul studied architecture at the University of Melbourne and University of East London before joining the Design Research Lab at the Architectural Association where he completed his Master in Architecture and Urbanism. He has over 12 years of practice experience in London, Melbourne and Kuala Lumpur. Paul was senior lecturer at the University of East London between 2005 and 2011. He has taught at the Architectural Association and lectured in UK, Sweden, Italy and China. He is a partner of Melbourne based design practice LLDS / Power To Make, focusing on the relationship between making, technology and material. Paul is a PhD candidate at SIAL RMIT. His main research interest is digital fabrication and craft formation in computational design.

Tim O'Hara

Senior Curator of Marine Invertebrates, Museum Victoria Dr Timothy O'Hara uses museum collections to answer large-scale questions about the distribution of seafloor animals around the globe. This research includes aspects of biogeography, macroecology, phylogeny, and phylogeography. His taxonomic speciality is the Ophiurodea (brittle-stars), a class of echinoderms that are a dominant component of the seafloor fauna.

Justine Bell-James

Lecturer in Law, The University of Queensland I am a lecturer in law at the TC Beirne School of Law at the University of Queensland, with research interests spanning environmental law, climate change adaptation, and coastal ecosystem protection. I undertook my postdoctoral research with the Global Change Institute at the University of Queensland, focussed on legal issues surrounding sea-level rise and flooding. I work extensively with colleagues from science, and my work has a strong multidisciplinary character.

Gareth Downing

Senior Lecturer in Economics, Strategy, Marketing and Economics, University of Huddersfield Gareth Downing joined the University as a lecturer in Economics in 2013. Before joining the University of Huddersfield, Gareth worked briefly with the Scottish Government within the newly formed fiscal responsibility team looking into issues related to possible future independence. Before deciding to take a career in economics Gareth spent several years working in the field of mental health on an acute psychiatric ward which he found extremely interesting and rewarding. Gareth’s main research interests are in the ares of Governance and Growth. In particular, the focus of his PhD is on the relationship between Decentralisation, Corruption and Economic Development. Gareth is also interersted in monetary economics and the Post Keynesian perspective.

Fabrizio Carmignani

Professor, Griffith Business School, Griffith University Current teaching areas Macroeconomics, Quantitative methods Research expertise Economic growth and macroeconomics The macroeconomics of natural resource abundance Macroeconomic analysis of aid for health Development economics The economics of civil conflict and post-conflict countries Panel models and systems of equations