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Dr Geoffrey R. Browne is a Research Assistant in the Faculty of Science and a Research Fellow and Subject Coordinator in the Faculty of Architecture Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne. His research areas include health literacy, governance, public health and urban planning, sustainability and climate change. Geoff has a special interest in the ecological model of public health, the “commercial determinants of health” and in austerity vs degrowth; or the challenge of enhancing public health equity in the face of energy descent.

Dr Helena Bender is a Teaching Specialist and Lecturer in the Faculty of Science at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Her research path began in the management of kangaroo-human interactions and has progressed to include interdisciplinary teaching practice, sustainability, complex systems and emergence. She recently co-authored a book on the practice of social-ecological research, which includes consideration of experiential and interdisciplinary learning. Her teaching has focused on the social-ecological challenges of the 21st century including the challenge of facilitating sustainability.

Dr James Bradley is a Lecturer in the History of Medicine and Life Sciences in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne. He is currently researching a history of the nervous system while teaching subjects on Darwin and the history of psychiatry. He started life as a historian of sport as follows: his PhD “Cricket, Class and Colonialism” was awarded by the University of Edinburgh in 1991. Before emigrating to Australia, he held a series of positions at the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Glasgow.

Dr Alexis Pang is a Teaching Specialist in the Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences at the University of Melbourne. His research areas include soil erosion, hydrology, spatial analysis and remote sensing applied to agricultural and forest systems. He teaches soil sciences at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He is the Senior Tutor for the first-year Natural Environments subject that integrates sustainability and resilience concepts into students’ learning about the earth’s natural systems and agroecosystems. Alexis has experience working in learning sciences research, focusing on educational technology and geography education.