Atlantic Fellow, The University of Melbourne
A social change-maker with over 20 years’ proven experience redressing disparity within community development systems using strengths-based approaches across the Pacific and within Indigenous Australia. Collaborator, connector, and networker brokering the right people and partnerships to leverage collective skills for cultural revitalisation and climate change solutions. Unique creative and analytical abilities to identify Indigenous-led opportunities and drive programs that lead to game-changing systemic dismantling and positive community outcomes. Intrapreneur, working to embed innovation and agility within systems and use learnings to grow opportunities. A driver of NGO collaborative community development initiatives in PNG, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Fiji, Tonga, Cook Islands, Timor Leste, India, Malawi, Queensland and the Northern Territory.
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Associate Director (Economics & Research), NZ Work Research Institute, Auckland University of Technology
Lisa applies economic analysis to public policy issues. Her current research focuses on using linked administrative data (particularly Statistics NZ's Integrated Data Infrastructure and Longitudinal Business Database) to examine issues in a number of policy areas, including labour markets, health, justice and education.
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I am a Senior Research Fellow and recipient of an NHMRC Emerging Leader Fellowship, specialising in mental health and behavioural medicine. My primary research expertise include mental health and wellbeing in elite and professional sportspeople, the relationship between physical activity and mood and anxiety disorders in young people, and exploring the links between mental and physical health. I am also an Honorary Senior Research Fellow with the Mental Health in Elite Sport team at Orygen, University of Melbourne and a practicing clinical psychologist, where my work largely focusses on supporting high performance athletes and other individuals within the sports system who have mental health or wellbeing concerns.
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Senior lecturer, social policy, University of York
I have previously worked as a researcher in the Centre for Housing Policy (2002-2005) and completed a postdoctoral fellowship with the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust (2001-2002). I have published on the subjects of housing support; scoping study methods and urban regeneration among others and undertaken research across a variety of issues, most recently projects exploring homelessness among military veterans. I have served as a member of the Forces in Mind Trust (FiMT) Research Centre Advisory Group.
My early research explored the relationship between ‘place’ and urban renewal with a specific focus on the role that the community and voluntary sector play in supporting social policy objectives in local communities. My current interests are located around the interplay between social policy, crime and social harm and how inter-disciplinary approaches can be used to explore and explain aspects of inequality across these arenas.
I also have a specific interest in military welfare as an under-explored issue in social policy research, and the role that housing plays in generating experiences of disadvantage among the veteran community.
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Professor, University of Cape Town
Lisa Seymour, Professor in the Department of Information Systems (IS) at the University of Cape Town, researches and teaches in the areas of business processes, enterprise systems and IS education; with particular emphasis on regional development in Southern Africa. Her area includes studying how organisations, particularly within the SME and public sector in Africa, can derive benefit from their business processes and enterprise systems.
She is also interested in solving educational challenges in this space and in working collaboratively on these challenges. She is director of CITANDA (Centre for IT and National Development in Africa), on the executive of the South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists (SAICSIT), principal researcher for ESEFA (Enterprise Systems Education for Africa) and chair of the SAP African Academic Board.
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Research Assistant & PhD Candidate at the Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics, Cardiff University
Lisa Shitomi-Jones is a Research Assistant and PhD student within the Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics at Cardiff University. Her research focuses on the impact of perimenopause on the risk of psychiatric disorders. This involves utilising large-scale databases to investigate associations between the timing of reproductive ageing and the risk of onset and recurrence of severe psychiatric episodes.
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Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, Swansea University
Dr. Lisa Smithstead is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at Swansea University. Her work looks at women's experiences as filmmakers and cinema-goers in Hollywood and Britain from the interwar period to the present day. Her research has explored the archives of film star Vivien Leigh, representations of cinema-going in modernist and middlebrow literature, and early cinema fandom. Lisa is currently researching the experience of older women in Hollywood in the wake of the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements.
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Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, Inclusive Futures Centre, Griffith University
Dr Lisa Stafford is an applied researcher, educator and planner in inclusive communities and cities and transport equity, with over 20 years’ experience across academia and professional practice. Her work focuses on promoting and applying equity in neighbourhood planning, inclusive active and public transport policy and design, and universal design streets, open space, and public infrastructure. Lisa brings her own experience as a chronically-ill disabled person and wheelchair user.
Lisa is an experienced facilitator who designs and uses inclusive creative methods to enable all voices to be heard in research and public planning.
Her recent work includes leading the large multi-stage Planning Inclusive Communities project with a recent published report of stage 1 the Makings of Inclusive Communities; being on the working group for the Future of Transport discussion paper by Engineers Australia, and reviewing the Universal Design of Transport discussion paper by Transport Australia. Lisa co-authored (lead by Dr Bridget Doran) a milestone research report 690 Transport experiences of disabled people in Aotearoa New Zealand for the Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency, and undertook the Trips Not Made Project on Tasmanian’s Transport Disadvantage for Anglicare Tasmania. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0966692323001400
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Ph D, Associate Professor, Lund University
Lisa Strömbom, Associate Professor in Political Science, is a former Director of Peace and Conflict Research at Lund University. She researches intractable conflict, conflict transformation, identity politics and agonistic peace. Strömbom has published widely on the peace processes in Israel-Palestine, Colombia and Northern Ireland.
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Assistant Professor, SUNY Empire State College
After 12 years working in administrative roles across career services, alumni affairs, and international education, and after earning an Ed.M. part-time, I returned to grad school to pursue a Ph.D. Since then, I have served as a consultant for the American Council on Education, postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Higher Education Governance Ghent, and visiting assistant professor at Ohio University. My research interests include higher education access and experience among displaced populations; higher education governance; international alumni affairs; and cross-national constructions of "diversity."
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Doctoral Candidate, School of Humanities, Media and Creative Communication, Massey University
Lisa is a doctoral student in Massey’s School of Humanities, Media and Creative Communication. Her research explores how digital technology impacts the ways older people in Aotearoa undertake and receive care.
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Professor of Sociology, Occidental College
Lisa Wade is a professor of sociology at Occidental College. Her newest book, "American Hookup," is about the emergence and character of the culture of sex that now dominates college campuses all across the country. Before receiving her PhD in sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Lisa earned an MA in human sexuality from NYU and a BA in philosophy from the University of California-Santa Barbara. Lisa has authored over a dozen academic research articles and a textbook on the sociology of gender. She actively contributes to public discourse, writing extensively for non-academic audiences at her blog, Sociological Images, and appearing on television and radio.
She is the author of American Hookup: The New Culture of Sex on Campus, forthcoming in 2017.
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Chief Executive
Lisa is CEO and Executive Director of The Conversation Media Group and is responsible for funding and operations, and the IT and Product teams who serve the international group. Previously Lisa was CEO of ArtsHub, CEO of a search marketing firm, and GM online employment for Fairfax Digital. Lisa has been a Director of Vertical Networks Group and Chair of Midsumma Festival. Lisa is a Deloitte Outstanding 50 LGBTI Leader.
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Lisa Wood is Associate Professor Population Health at University of Western Australia and has PhD in public health coupled with over 20 years experience in health promotion and public health, working across policy and practice, and with government and non-government sectors. Passionate about research that can make a difference to reducing health and social inequalities.
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Lisa is a lecturer at London South Bank University and teaches across Sports and Exercise Science and Biosciences degrees. As part of the Sport and Exercise Science Research Centre, Lisa focuses her study on the physiological effects of, and responses to, exercise; she conducts lab-based experimental studies and community-based health intervention research. Her main research interests include resistance training for strength and conditioning, physical activity as a countermeasure to ageing, and enhancing muscle function and exercise performance through using novel interventions.
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Associate Professor of Architecture, Director of the Hamer Center for Community Design, Penn State
Lisa D. Iulo is an associate professor of architecture at The Pennsylvania State University and a Registered Architect, Professional Planner, and LEED-Accredited Professional who has focused her work and research on building and planning for a more sustainable future. Specifically, Iulo’s work has been recognized in research and practice related to residential green building practices and affordable housing, energy efficiency, and strategies for the implementation of renewable energy at the building and community scale.
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Professor of Environmental Studies, Affiliate Faculty in Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
I am interested in the value and ethical significance of natural processes. My areas of research include environmental ethics, and the science-religion interface. Much of my research focuses on conflict and compatibility between scientific and religious interpretations of nature and natural processes. My first book Environmental Ethics, Ecological Theology, and Natural Selection (Columbia, 2003) critiques the tendency of Christian environmental ethics, or “ecological theology,” to misconstrue or ignore Darwinian theory, and examines the problems this creates for developing a realistic ethic toward nature and animals.
More recent research has focused on Rachel Carson, whose book Silent Spring (1962) arguably marks the beginning of the environmental movement in America and abroad. I co-edited (with philosopher and nature writer Kathleen Dean Moore) a volume of interdisciplinary essays on Carson's life and work, titled Rachel Carson: Legacy and Challenge (SUNY, 2008).
My current research centers on the role of wonder and enchantment in (and with) science, nature, and religion, and the variety of ways in which scientific narratives, particularly those involving evolution and the Anthropocene, are being "re-enchanted" and recast as mythopoeic stories with moral content. My most recent book, Consecrating Science: Wonder, Knowledge, and the Natural World (2017) is the product of that research. I also write about the spiritual and ethical dimensions of emerging technologies of the Anthropocene, like de-extinction and other high-tech interventions in nature.
I currently serve as President of the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture (ISSRNC).
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Lecturer, University of New England
Lisa is a Lecturer in the School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at the University of New England. Her key research areas are Aviation History, Uniforms, Clothing and Fashion, Popular Culture, Romance Novels and the British Royal Family. She is the co-founder, along side Associate Professor Jo Coghlan and Mr Huw Nolan, of PopCRN, the Popular Culture Research Network.
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Research Project Officer, Monash University
Dr Lisa J. Wheildon is a researcher and teaching associate in criminology and gender-based violence at Monash University and RMIT University. Lisa’s recent research has focused on online safety and technology-facilitated abuse, including technology-facilitated coercive control and technology-facilitated workplace sexual harassment. Her teaching is in the areas of victimology, politics and family and domestic violence. She is an expert in gender, public policy and institutions.
Lisa's PhD research employed an interdisciplinary approach, applying criminological and political science theories with a feminist research methodology to examine the role of victim-survivors of gender-based violence in the co-production of public policy. The research explored how power imbalances and gendered social norms create barriers to meaningful engagement and successful co-production with victim-survivors and highlighted the need to transform state institutions to embed gender equality.
Lisa is the early career researcher representative on the Australian and New Zealand Society Of Criminology Committee of Management and a moderator and member of the Committee of Management of the Power to Persuade global social policy platform.
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Retail Expert, PhD Candidate & Sessional Academic, University of Sydney
After ~20 years experience within FMCG/CPG interfacing with grocery retailers and all other consumer channels across tier 1, tier 2, regional manufacturing and start up suppliers, I am seeking to help solve industry problems through academic research.
I have been fortunate enough to undertake my PhD at The University of Sydney which ranks #18 globally in QS rankings for 2025. I commenced part-time in 2022, and within two years my research area was a global issue. I see this as fortunate. I engage weekly with industry bodies, suppliers, retailers, regulators and government. helping solve issues which industry is too busy to solve, will help make it better and keep the industry and consumers. This is the most fun I have had in a long time, fixing problems which help more stakeholders is what drives me.
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Senior lecturer in Library and information science, Lund University
I am researching the societal role of public libraries and how libraries can contribute to promote democracy. I am interested in how inequality and power affect this role and how libraries can become more accessible to all.
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Associate Professor, Nursing, MacEwan University
Lisa is a Registered Nurse who teaches undergraduate nursing students. Her teaching specialization has primarily been nursing care of acutely ill patients and families, nursing and health trends and issues, and living with chronic illness. Her reseach has been focused on teaching and learning in nursing education, with a focus on student and educator psychosocial well-being.
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Migration Studies, University of British Columbia
I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Centre for Migration Studies at the University of British Columbia, located on xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) territory. I conduct interdisciplinary research on international migration, (im)migrant and refugee integration, and education. I currently study citizenship education and immigrant naturalization. My PhD dissertation focused on the multi-step recruitment and retention of international students as economic immigrants, i.e., 'edugration.' It examined the shifting roles Canadian higher education institutions play in migration governance from an ethical perspective, particularly related to settler colonialism, surveillance, and border imperialism. My MA thesis probed the meaning of refugee integration by researching the experiences of refugees resettled from Aceh, Indonesia to Metro Vancouver five years after arrival.
I have been a Regulated Canadian Immigration Consultant in good standing since 2014. I also have over a decade of professional experience as a university international student advisor and completed multiple refugee resettlement research and curriculum design projects with the settlement sector in Canada and the United States. In 2007-2008 I held a Fulbright grant at Bilkent University in Turkey.
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Professionnelle de recherche en écologie benthique, Université Laval
J'ai obtenu mon diplôme depuis longtemps déjà, en 2006, en biologie avec une concentration marine à l'UQAR. Commençant tout d'abord dans le domaine de l'aquaculture et de la pêche, mon intérêt s'est orienté par la suite vers l'identification des invertébrés benthiques (benthos). Depuis ce temps, je suis toujours passionnées par mon métier. En laboratoire ou sur le terrain, en eaux froides ou en eaux chaudes, marins ou dulcicoles, j'accepte dans mon quotidien toujours les nouveaux défis.
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Associate Professor of Southeast Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley
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Senior research fellow, UNSW Sydney
Dr Lise Lafferty is a Senior Research Fellow at UNSW Sydney with positions at the Centre for Social Research in Health and The Kirby Institute. She is a qualitative social health researcher with a focus on infectious diseases in priority populations.
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PhD Candidate in Sociology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Lise Woensdregt is a PhD candidate in the Sociology Department, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands. She uses ethnographic research methods and works with members of marginalised communities to study community organising in the official development aid system, and she is committed to developing alternative methods of knowledge production.
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Associate professor, Medical Education, Research and Evaluation, School of Medicine, Western Sydney University
Lise Mogensen is a senior lecturer and researcher in the School of Medicine. Leading the award winning 'Community Research Teaching Team', she convenes the ‘Community Research Projects’, a core program in the MBBS course, in which medical students learn applied research skills by completing real world projects on health issues in urban and rural communities. She is also the academic lead of program evaluation in the School of Medicine, and Chairs the School’s Evaluation Committee.
Lise is a qualitative and mixed methods researcher with a keen interest in developing inclusive research approaches with vulnerable populations. She leads an international research network focused on participatory methodologies to include vulnerable and marginalised children. Her research interests are comprised in three inter-related research programs with several active projects:
Child and youth well-being research
Multinational research on children’s understandings of well-being across nations and regions.
Well-being and quality of life, children and young people living with disability and chronic illness.
Approaches to inclusive research with marginalised and vulnerable children
Living with disability, mental illness, and chronic illness
Diagnosis and identity.
Children with autism, children with intellectual disability – access to health care and services.
Transition from school to adult services for young people with intellectual disability.
Experiences with and perspectives on the NDIS.
Medical education research
Medical student well-being
Experiences of medical students with disability or mental health problems
Disability and mental health issues in medical education and practice
Structures of support in medical education, and transition to medical practice.
Medical program evaluation
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Chief Economist Bureau for Economic Research, Stellenbosch University
After over a decade at the helm of the BER's manufacturing surveys, Lisette now manages the BER's suite of business and consumer surveys. She helps craft the Bureau's forecast narrative and is responsible for communicating this view to macro clients and external stakeholders. As the editor of Economic Prospects and the BER Weekly Review, she keeps a keen eye on local economic trends and the global macro environment.
Lisette holds a Master’s of Economics degree and a postgraduate diploma in Futures Studies (cum laude), both from Stellenbosch University.
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Visiting Professor of Strategy, INSEAD
Lite Nartey is a visiting professor of strategy at Insead (Fontainebleau campus), in France. Leveraging her professional background in international development, her academic research seeks to demonstrate the business case for stakeholder engagement and the business case for international development. Her research focus on stakeholder engagement and management examines the contingencies and dynamics at the nexus of the relationships among multinational firms, governments, and civil society actors, as well as the implications of these dynamics on both firm performance and societal value. Her research focus on development explores the role of multinational firms in the development of emerging markets, specifically Africa, and her work in this area seeks to draw strategic and policy implications. Her work has been published in the Strategic Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly and Strategy Science and has received numerous international academic awards and honours including the Ralph Gomory Best Industry Studies Paper Award, Best Conference Paper and Best Conference Paper Prize for Practice Implications at the Strategic Management Society.
She has worked in different capacities with multinational extractive companies in oil, gas and (gold) mining, in different parts of Africa, as well as with non-governmental organisations and with multilateral organisations, including the International Finance Corporation. More recently, she has worked with different organisations on banking and mobile money adoption in west Africa.
She received her PhD in management from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. She also holds an MPA in public and nonprofit management and policy, with a focus on international development, from the Robert Wagner School of Public Service, New York University, as well as an MSc in management from The Wharton School. She was formerly on the faculty of the Sonoco International Business Department, Darla Moore School of Business, at the University of South Carolina. She is originally from Ghana.
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