University Teacher in Sociology, University of Sheffield
Dr Briony Hannell is an early-career feminist researcher and sociologist based in the Department of Sociological Studies at the University of Sheffield, UK. She completed her PhD in Politics at the University of East Anglia, UK, in 2021. Her research interests span across (digital) media, culture, and communications, feminist sociology, cultural studies, internet studies, digital sociology, youth studies, and fan studies. She is primarily interested in young people, citizenship and participation, and digital (anti)feminisms. Her research on young people, feminism and anti-feminism, fan culture, digital culture, and Tumblr has been featured in The Observer, Vice, The Independent, Dazed, WIRED, BBC Radio, and more. Her first book, Feminist Fandom: Media Fandom, Digital Feminisms, and Tumblr was published by Bloomsbury in early 2024.
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Deputy Head, Health and Social Care Unit and Senior Research Fellow, Monash University
Briony Hill is an ARC DECRA Fellow (2023-25).
She completed her PhD in Health Psychology in 2015 at Deakin University, Australia, exploring a psychosocial and behaviour change approach to preventing excessive gestational weight gain. For her thesis, she was awarded an Alfred Deakin Medal for Doctoral Thesis and an Australian Psychological Society (APS) Health College Award for Excellent Higher Degree Thesis in Health Psychology. Briony received an Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in 2016 and completed an NHMRC Early Career Fellowship (2017-2022) in the area of preconception wellbeing. She is currently Deputy Head of the Health and Social Care Unit, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at Monash University.
Research interests
Briony's research interests centre on weight stigma before (preconception), during (antenatal) and after pregnancy (postpartum). She is currently leading an ARC Discovery Project, her DECRA and several seeding grants on the topic of weight stigma across the reproductive years. Briony also has a strong interest in health behaviour change and psychosocial wellbeing (including depressive, anxiety and stress symptoms, body image, and coping skills) and understanding the mechanisms that lead to the attainment of healthy diet and physical activity practices and weight for women during their reproductive years. She also applies an Ecological Systems Theory lens to her research to recognise the broader impacts on wellbeing that extend through the community, society and government. As part of this work, Briony is one of only a small handful of researchers globally, pursuing research to understand how we can eradicate weight stigma at all levels to reduce the burden and blame on women across the reproductive life phase. She is an advocate for co-design methods in her research, to ensure relevant stakeholders have their say in the development and implementation of interventions to meet their needs.
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Researcher in Climate Change Engagement, Cardiff University
I am a researcher focusing on public engagement with climate change and society-wide transformations to address it. Working in both academic and non-academic roles, some of the research areas I have covered in relation to climate change include older people, young people and climate justice, cultural events and live music, travel, and the higher education sector.
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Lecturer in Contemporary Music, University of the Sunshine Coast
Dr Briony Luttrell is a musician, researcher, and educator whose expertise sits at an intersection of creative, technical, and theoretical approaches. A classically trained cellist who developed a passion for audio engineering and math rock at university, Briony has extensive experience in both live and recorded contexts working as a performer, writer, producer, and consultant. Briony’s PhD contributes a new model for understanding and writing string arrangements for recorded popular music.
Currently a Lecturer in Contemporary Music at UniSC, Briony has been a tertiary music educator since 2007 and is passionate about crafting educational experiences that use transdisciplinary perspectives and locate music making practices in their historical, sociocultural, and technological contexts. Briony’s areas of expertise include: cultural semantics, listening, cello, strings, multimodal analysis, popular music, songwriting / arranging / production, musicianship, social semiotics, and creative collaboration.
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Manager International Partnerships and Co-ordinator of the Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network (GCRMN), Australian Institute of Marine Science
My 30+ years career has spanned marine research, science leadership, environmental management, and knowledge exchange. With a long-time focus on the Great Barrier Reef, my interest has been the interface between science and policy. With my teams, I contributed to the understanding of pressures facing the Great Barrier Reef, especially related to deteriorating water quality and climate change, and to finding solutions to better manage these. In my new role as Coordinator of the Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network (GCRMN), I am hoping to facilitate comprehensive assessments of coral reef status and trends, to track the pulse of these priceless ecosystems.
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Fisheries Scientist, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
Brit is a fisheries scientist working primarily in marine ecology, conservation, and fisheries. She has a particular interest in chondrichthyans (sharks, rays, and chimaeras) and the deep sea.
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Assistant Professor, Department of English, Dalhousie University
Brittany Kraus is an Assistant Professor at Dalhousie University, where she teaches courses on Canadian Literature, Global Literature, and Literature and Multiculturalism. Her field of study is Contemporary Canadian literature, with a research focus on refugee literature and the environment.
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Microbiology, University of Tennessee
Brittany N. Zepernick is a postdoctoral researcher in microbiology. Her research includes sequencing the genomes of freshwater diatoms.
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Assistant Teaching Professor of History, Arizona State University
Brock Ruggles earned his doctorate and master's degrees in history from Arizona State University after completing a bachelor's in sociology and teaching for AmeriCorps. He has extensive experience developing and instructing a range of traditional and online courses in U.S. and world history and writes about culture and politics.
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Director, Centre for African Studies, University of Cambridge
Bronwen Everill is a writer and historian. She teaches history at Cambridge University and is a lecturer and fellow at Gonville & Caius College. She holds a PhD from King's College London; MSt from Oxford; and a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University.
Bronwen is the author of Not Made by Slaves and Abolition and Empire in Sierra Leone and Liberia. She also co-edited The History and Practice of Humanitarian Intervention and Aid in Africa and is the reviews editor of The Historical Journal.
She is interested in the global history of humanitarianism and its relationship to political and economic liberalism. Her research looks at developments in modern history ranging widely from capitalism to imperialism, from national sovereignty to economic development, from political revolution to the culture of business. Bronwen is particularly interested in examining these questions in the ways that they connect West African, US, and British imperial political, economic, and cultural history from the eighteenth century through the twentieth.
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Professor in Physical Geography, Northumbria University, Newcastle
Originally from Canada’s east coast, my interest in past environmental change was sparked as an undergraduate when I learned of the rapid climate and vegetation shifts that occurred in the North Atlantic region.
I studied for my PhD at the University of Edinburgh (2005 – 2009) where I examined climate and vegetation change from the last glacial period until present in the world’s largest tropical wetland. From there, I continued my research into human and climatic causes of tropical environmental change and I joined Northumbria University in January 2015
My research contributes to understanding the climatic and human influences on ecosystems, species abundance, and biodiversity. Using pollen and other microfossils preserved in sedimentary environments, such as algal remains and microscopic charcoal, I analyse how plant communities have responded to historical disturbances and past climate change.
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Monash University
Bronwyn is part of the Body Image & Eating Disorders Research Group at Monash University. She holds a Bachelor of Applied Science in Psychology (RMIT University), a Bachelor of Applied Science Honours degree in Psychology (RMIT University), and a Master of Psychology (Clinical) (University of Tasmania). Bronwyn is a registered psychologist and currently works part-time in private practice.
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Research Fellow in Ecology, The University of Melbourne
I'm an ecologist who works as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne. Much of my research aims to improve the management of introduced predators and fire to help protect Australia's native wildlife.
I work closely with land management agencies to identify priority research questions, and conduct collaborative, landscape-scale experiments, generally in the forests and healthlands of south-western Victoria. I also develop simulation tools to help land managers predict the outcomes of their management decisions.
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Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing, University of Adelaide
Focus of the PhD was on literary theory. More recent interests include contemporary South African and African literature. Am also the editor and co-director of the independent publishing company Fourthwall Books. Write on South African art, photography and literature. Also write essays and short stories, and have completed a novel.
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Adjunct lecturer, Linguistics, University of Adelaide, University of Adelaide
My background is in education, specifically in the area of language and literacy and pedagogy. I have spent most of my professional life working in Aboriginal education, from remote to metropolitan, and from Junior Primary to tertiary.
My research interest is the development of academic language with educationally marginalised students: Indigenous, English as a Second Language, and low-socioceconomic students. I draw on three theoretical fields: systemic functional linguistics (Halliday), sociocultural theory (Vygotsky), and educational sociology (Bernstein).
PhD in Linguistics, University of Adelaide (Pedagogy for marginalised students)
M.Ed (Language and Literacy) University of South Australia
Literacy consultant in South Australian public schools, and NT remote Indigenous schools
Vice president, Primary English Teaching Association of Australia (PETAA)
Author: Teaching with Intent 1 and 2, Teaching the language of Climate Change Science
Formerly project officer, Aboriginal Education Unit and the Literacy Secretariat, SA Dept for Ed
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Associate Professor in Education, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
Bronwyn's research is informed by the disciplines of education, sociology and geography. She lectures in Education Studies and Initial Teacher education with a specialist area of the social sciences. Her primary research is in citizenship education and youth participation.
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Lecturer in Mathematics Education, University of Sydney
Dr Bronwyn Reid O'Connor is a mathematics educator and researcher in the Sydney School of Education and Social Work at the University of Sydney. Bronwyn teaches in the areas of secondary mathematics education at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Her research focuses on students' learning in mathematics, and mathematics teacher education.
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Lecturer in Nutrition and Dietetics, School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences, The University of Queensland
Dr Brooke Devlin is an Advanced Accredited Practising Dietitian (AdvAPD), Advanced Sports Dietitian (AdvSD) and a Lecturer in Nutrition and Dietetics at the School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences, University of Queensland. Dr Devlin holds qualifications in exercise science (BExSci), nutrition and dietetics (MNutrDiet) and completed a PhD in Sports Nutrition at La Trobe University, Melbourne. Her current research interests include diet and exercise interventions to optimise blood glucose control and metabolic health including chrono-nutrition and time-restricted eating. In addition to this, Dr Devlin continues to have an interest and ongoing research in sports nutrition, focusing on nutrition knowledge and dietary behaviours of athletes.
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Assistant Professor, Department of Management and Marketing, University of Saskatchewan
I am a tenure-track professor in the Department of Management and Marketing at the Edwards School of Business, University of Saskatchewan. I have also served as a USask Sustainability Faculty Fellow for the past two years, embedding sustainability learning outcomes into my classes.
I teach introductory marketing, advanced marketing strategy, and entrepreneurship and venture development at the undergraduate level and a business and society class in our MBA program. My current research focuses on teaching cases that amplify the voices of Indigenous leaders and women leading companies in non-traditional industries. I am also a Certified Management Consultant (CMC) who has completed over 100 projects for various organizations in the areas of strategy, governance, communications and operational planning.
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Assistant Professor of Psychology, Case Western Reserve University
Brooke Macnamara is an assistant professor of psychology, and she specializes in the psychology of expertise, among others. For her first piece for The Conversation, she is writing about sports and children.
And she has news for all parents who think they can engineer the next Tiger Woods.
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Professor of Media, Journalism and Film, Miami University
Bruce Drushel is a Professor in the Department of Media, Journalism and Film at Miami University. His teaching and research interests are in the areas of media policy and economics, media audiences, media history, and queer representation in electronic media and film.
He currently serves as Vice-President for Programming and Area Chairs of the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association and chairs its Gay, Lesbian & Queer Studies interest group. He has received its David M. Sokol Award (2012) and Presidential Award (2013) for his service to the organization.
He is editor of the book Fan Phenomenon: Star Trek and was co-editor (with Kathy German) of the books Queer Identities/Political Realities and Ethics of Emerging Media. His work also has appeared in Journal of Homosexuality, Journal of Media Economics, European Financial Journal, and FemSpec, and in books addressing free speech and social networks, free speech and 9/11, media in the Caribbean, C-SPAN as a pedagogical tool, LGBT persons and on-line media, minority sexualities and non-western cultures, and AIDS and popular culture. He recently edited a special issue of Journal of Homosexuality on AIDS and Culture, co-edited (with Michael Johnson, Jr.) a special issue of Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture, and currently is co-editing (with Joseph Hancock) a special issue of Journal of American Culture.
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Professor of Developmental Psychology in Society, University of Bristol
My research interests include:
Science of Happiness
Cognitive development from a neuroscience perspective.
Inhibitory control of thoughts and actions.
Spatial representation and action.
Naïve theories.
The origin of adult magical reasoning from children’s natural intuitions.
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Professor of Law, University of Notre Dame
Bruce Huber teaches and conducts research in the areas of environmental law, natural resources law, property, and energy law. His particular areas of expertise include energy regulation, public land and resource management, and the interaction between law and politics. His scholarship in these fields has been published in such journals as the California Law Review, the Harvard Environmental Law Review, and The Georgetown Law Journal. In 2017 and 2022, his journal articles were selected as among the top five publications in the field of environmental law that year. Huber is a fellow of the Fitzgerald Institute for Real Estate and an editor of the journal Transnational Environmental Law. Huber received his J.D. and a Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Bruce joined the department in February 2006, having previously been an Economics lecturer in the SMB at the University of Wales Aberystwyth for about 10 years.
His PhD, Masters and degree were from the Department of Economics at Loughborough University.
Bruce has a general interest in sport, which has led to doing some research into the economics of cricket, such as the effect of winning the toss. He also has an interest in development economics, especially the role of trade on economic growth in LDCs. Otherwise his research interests are in international macroeconomics, particularly models of exchange rate determination. In addition, he is also interested in the economics of the EU, especially the effects of monetary union.
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Dr. Bruce Mutsvairo was a journalist at the Associated Press bureau in Amsterdam, The Netherlands for fours years. Since 2013, he has been at Northumbria, conducting cross-disciplinary research in social media, citizen engagement and political participation.
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Enterprise Professor, Indigenous Agriculture School of Agriculture, Food and Ecosystem Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
Bruce Schneier is an internationally renowned security technologist, called a "security guru" by The Economist. He is the author of 14 books -- including the New York Times best-seller Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World -- as well as hundreds of articles, essays, and academic papers. His influential newsletter "Crypto-Gram" and blog "Schneier on Security" are read by over 250,000 people. Schneier is a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, a fellow at the Belfer Center at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, and a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He is also a special advisor to IBM Security and the Chief Technology Officer of Resilient.
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Professor Child adolescent and developmental psychiatry, Monash University
DPM London 1974
MRC Psych 1975
FRANZCP 1976
Cert Child Psych RANZCP 1977
MD ( Uni Melbourne) 1983
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Associate Professor of Physics, University of Sydney
I am an experimental particle physicist with a background in accelarator-based neutrino experiments, and flavour physics at electron-positron colliders. My current research is focussed on hidden flavour, especially searches for exotic quarkonium-like mesons at the LHC. I hold a Future Fellowship from the Australian Research Council, and am one of the Chief Investigators of the Centre of Excellence for Particle Physics at the Terascale (CoEPP).
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Distinguished Professor and Director of Thompson Earth Systems Institute (TESI), University of Florida
I have been a professor at the University of Florida since 1977. I am the author of about 200 peer-reviewed publications and the recent book "Broader Impacts of Science on Society" (Cambridge, 2019). I am a Fellow of the AAAS, Geological Society of America, and Paleontological Society. I was President of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology from 1986 to 1988, and President of the Paleontological Society from 2018 to 2020. Over the past decade I have become increasingly interested in working with public school science teachers; in 2015 to 2016 I was a Visiting Scientist embedded in the Santa Cruz (California) Office of Education. I currently am the Director of a UF "moonshot" project called "Scientist in Every Florida School." I am passionate about the importance of scientists giving back to society as part of their social responsibility.
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Emeritus Professor, Instituto Clodomiro Picado, Universidad de Costa Rica
Bruno Lomonte is an emeritus professor at the Instituto Clodomiro Picado, University of Costa Rica (ICP-UCR), which he joined in 1980.
His research is mainly focused on snake venoms, with particular interest on phospholipase A2 myotoxins, as well as on antivenoms, antibodies and diverse toxin inhibitors. From 2010 to 2023 held the position of coordinator of the Proteomics Laboratory at ICP-UCR.
A member of the International Society on Toxinology (IST) since 1986, Dr Lomonte has authored 360+ research articles and book chapters, and serves as editorial board or reviewer for several specialized journals on toxinology and proteomics.
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MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)
Dr Bruno Theodoro Luciano is a MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow at ULB, affiliated to the Dept of Research and Studies in International Politics (REPI) and the Institute of European Studies (IEE). PhD in Political Science and International Studies (University of Birmingham, UK), MA and BA in International Relations (University of Brasília, Brazil). Co-Editor of the journal Contemporary European Politics. His MSCA Cofund postdoctoral research at the Université libre de Bruxelles focuses on the political developments of the European Union-Latin America and Caribbean relations, examining their inter-governmental and inter-parliamentary dimensions. In addition to this primary line of research, he is also interested in inter-regionalism and comparative regionalism in Europe, South America and Africa, with focus on the agenda of trade, democracy protection, civil society participation, and parliamentary diplomacy. Author of the book Parliamentary Agency and Regional Integration in Europe and Beyond (Routledge/UACES Contemporary European Studies series). Some of his research outputs have appeared in outlets such as Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of European Integration, Global Studies Quarterly, and Parliamentary Affairs.
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Senior Lecturer - Advertising, RMIT University
DR. BRUNO SCHIVINSKI, Ph.D., MSc, BSC, FRSS, FHEA is a sociologist and Senior Lecturer in Advertising at RMIT University, Australia. He consults for scientific institutions such as the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education (MNiSW) and the National Science Centre (NCN) in Poland, the video game industry, online service providers, and websites. Dr. Schivinski is Associate Editor for SAGE Open and the Central European Management Journal. Dr. Schivinski specializes in quantitative research methods with a focus on multivariate data analysis and generalization methods. His latest work can be found in the Journal of Business Research, Journal of Advertising Research, Industrial Marketing Management, Journal of Strategic Marketing, Event Management, Journal of Clinical Medicine, and Addictive Behaviors Reports.
His personal website: https://brunoschivinski.wordpress.com/
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Senior Analyst, Climateworks Centre
Brurce is currently Senior Analyst at Climateworks Centre, a think tank under the Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Australia. With a strong background in environmental science and public policy and regional expertise across Indonesia and Southeast Asia, he contributes expertise in mobilizing investments for climate projects such as nature-based solutions and decentralized renewable energy. Passionate about social justice, he is also experienced in advocating for oversight systems that ensure the environmental and social integrity of investments across the financial systems and carbon markets.
Brurce graduated with a Master’s in Environmental Science from Yale University School of the Environment and a Bachelor’s in Environmental Engineering from Institut Teknologi Bandung.
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Dr. Clair's research areas include topology and graph theory. He has been a faculty member at Saint Louis University since 2000.
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