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Luigi Tomba is a political scientist who has published widely on China’s political and social change and the urban condition. His latest book is The Government Next Door. Neighbourhood Politics in Urban China (Cornell University Press, 2014). It was awarded the prestigious Association of Asian Studies Joseph Levenson Prize for the best book on Post-1900 China in 2016. He is an Associate Director of China in the World and was the co-editor of The China Journal from 2005–2015.
Professor Hal Kendig FASSA is a gerontologist and sociologist who serves as the Professor of Ageing and Public Policy at The Australian National University in the Centre for Research on Ageing, Health and Wellbeing in the Research School of Population Health. He is also Chief Investigator with the ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research.
Professor Peter McDonald AM FASSA is Professor of Demography at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne and Deputy Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research.
Professor John Piggott FASSA is Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research at the University of New South Wales, where he is Scientia Professor of Economics.
Dr. Anita Pisch is a PhD graduate in Art History and Curatorship and Visiting Scholar, School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics, at The Australian National University, Canberra. She also holds a Masters degree in Cross-Disciplinary Art and Design from the College of Fine Arts at the University of New South Wales, and a Bachelor of Arts with Combined Honours in Theatre Studies and English Literature with a Major in Modern History. Her other areas of study have included psychology, political economy, political science and publishing, and she also freelances as an academic editor.
Tahu Kukutai belongs to the Ngāti Tīpa, Ngāti Maniapoto and Te Aupouri tribes and is Associate Professor of demography at the National Institute of Demographic and Economic Analysis, University of Waikato. Tahu specialises in Māori and indigenous demographic research and has written extensively on issues of Māori and tribal population change, identity, and inequality. She also has an ongoing interest in how governments around the world count and classify populations by ethnic-racial and citizenship criteria. Tahu is a founding member of Te Mana Raraunga: the Māori data sovereignty network, Vice President of the Population Association of New Zealand and Deputy Director of the Ageing Well National Science Challenge. She was a journalist in a former life.
Aletta Biersack’s Papua New Guinea research has been among the Ipili speakers of the Porgera and Paiela valleys, Enga Province. The research topics upon which she has published include gender; ritual, mythology and cosmology; kinship, marriage and social networks; gold mining in Porgera and at Mt Kare; and the history of Ipili speakers in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. She is also the editor of Clio in Oceania, Papuan Borderlands, and Ecologies for Tomorrow, and co-editor of Reimagining Political Ecology and Emergent Masculinities in the Pacific. She is professor of cultural anthropology at the University of Oregon.
Martha Macintyre is an Honorary Principal Fellow at the University of Melbourne and until 2015 was editor of The Australian Journal of Anthropology. She has undertaken research in Milne Bay and New Ireland Provinces in Papua New Guinea over a 30-year period and has co-edited several volumes on gender, economic and social change in Papua New Guinea. Her most recent volumes are Managing Modernity in the Western Pacific, co-edited with Mary Patterson, and Emergent Masculinities in the Pacific, co-edited with Aletta Biersack.
Elizabeth Ganter, a public servant and academic, lived and worked in the Northern Territory for over 25 years. She wrote Reluctant Representatives: Blackfella bureaucrats speak in Australia’s north as a CAEPR Centre Associate in Canberra. Elizabeth is dedicated to improving public administration in Australian Indigenous affairs through better relationships between government and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Dr Rebecca Giblin is a member of Monash University's Law Faculty. During 2011 she was the Kernochan Visiting International Intellectual Property Scholar at Columbia Law School in New York, and in 2013 a Senior Visiting Scholar in residence at Berkeley Law School. As well as being co-editor of What if we could reimagine copyright?, Dr Giblin is the author of Code Wars (Edward Elgar, 2011), and numerous other journal articles, book chapters, law reform submissions and pieces in the popular press. She has been invited to address diverse audiences across Australia and in the US, the UK, Europe, Israel, South Africa, Hong Kong and South Korea. She is currently the lead Chief Investigator of a $680,204 ARC Linkage Project studying the legal and social impacts of library elending. Many of her research papers are available for full text download via SSRN. She tweets on tech law, IP & related issues @rgibli.