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Founder & Inaugural Chair in Transgender Studies, University of Victoria, Canada (World's first & only one).
Founder & Academic Director, The Transgender Archives, University of Victoria, Canada (World's largest).
Founder & Host, Moving Trans History Forward Conferences, Victoria, Canada (International & interdisciplinary, Community & Academic).
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Joyce Wu is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Social Sciences. She is also a Fulbright Senior Scholar, Deputy Editor of Development in Practice and Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University. Joyce has a diverse history of interdisciplinary research and practitioner experiences. Her research includes sexual and gendered violence in conflict and post-conflict situations, intersectionality and inequality, gender mainstreaming, sustainable development, climate change, and equity and diversity in the higher education. Prior to academic life, Joyce has worked in the Australian Government and the United Nations on gender and development issues, including the The UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women. She has worked with CSIRO as a Research Fellow to integrate gender and social considerations into a water resource management programme in South Asia. Joyce was also part of the Australian Government funded research, Individual Deprivation Measure, which is a multidimensional poverty measure with a gender-sensitive analysis and focus.
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I am an Economics PhD candidate at Yale University. My research focuses on labor market disparities and policy measures to alleviate them.
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My work is around human remains in contexts of political repression and genocide, and on processes of memorialisation, memory and justice. I am particularly interested in the intersection of forensic science and the social sciences.
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Stephen Duckett is Director of the Health Program at Melbourne (Australia-based think tank, Grattan Institute. He has a reputation for creativity, evidence-based innovation, and reform in areas ranging from the introduction of activity-based funding for hospitals, to new systems of accountability for the safety of hospital care. An economist, he is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences.
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I am a lecturer in political economy at the University of Sydney in Australia. My current research focus is regional economic development, with a particular emphasis on extractive industry and food systems of provision. I have previously done work on extractivism in Australia and in west Africa.
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A social worker with a particular interest in improving the social inclusion of young people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Also involved with social worker training.
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PhD candidate in Development Economics, SOAS, University of London.
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Associate Professor at the University of Victoria, BC, Canada. I'm interested in the social context of education for children in the global South
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I am a professor in the Political Science Department at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. I have expertise in feminist policy studies.