Brianna Gordon is a Wiradjuri Gundungurra (Australian First Nations) PhD student at the Australian National University. Brianna’s research focuses on mercury contamination from legacy gold mines, and the potential impacts of the contamination on Wiradjuri culture, community, and Country. How the contamination may be impacted by climate change is also a key aspect of her research. As an Indigenous scientist, Brianna champions Traditional Knowledge and Indigenous Ways of Learning in academia and international climate change policy. Brianna is also a co-convenor of the Indigenous student-led Fenner Circle, which provides a space for and advocates for Indigenous students within her school and university.

Edan Habel grew up in Adelaide and came to the ANU to study a double degree in Arts and Science, completing his Honours in Chemistry in 2021. He is a PhD candidate in Chemistry, and currently sits on the ANU Research School of Chemistry's Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Access committee, as well as the ANU Students' Association Student Representative Council as the Higher Degree by Research Officer. His passion for scientific inquiry extends to all areas of his life, believing that meaningful answers are born from meaningful questions.

Dr Elisabeth McLinton is a medical doctor completing training as a Rural Generalist through the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine. She is currently employed at the Australian National University as an Academic Registrar in the School of Medicine and Psychology, researching retention in rural primary care. For the preceding five years Elisabeth has worked as doctor in primary and secondary care across rural and remote regions of the Northern Territory and New South Wales. Elisabeth completed a Masters of Public Health at University of New South Wales and is currently a PhD candidate at the ANU School of Medicine and Psychology in Global Health systems. Prior to studying medicine Elisabeth completed at Bachelor of Arts in Global Politics and a Bachelor of Science with Honours in Molecular Virology at Monash University. She currently lives in rural New South Wales with her husband, an Australian kelpie (Pippa) and a blue cattle dog (Bernie).

James is a lecturer at the ANU College of Law. Before this he was a Project Associate Professor at the University of Tokyo (2015-2020) and Associate Professor at Sophia University (2020-2022), where he remains a Visiting Lecturer. He has also held visiting academic positions at Meiji University and Waseda University in Tokyo. James read Law at the University of Oxford (St Catherine’s College) and is completing a PhD as an external candidate at Utrecht University. James primarily works at the intersection of equity, comparative private law, and Japanese legal studies, with supplementary research profiles in applied jurisprudence, comparative legal theory, law and sexuality, and law and the humanities (with a substantive focus on contemporary Japanese culture). His published scholarship in doctrinal private law appears in leading generalist and specialist journals and has been cited by courts of final appeal in New Zealand and Singapore and by Parliamentary law reform commissions in the United Kingdom. He is the author of forthcoming monographs Law and Literature in Japan and Civilising the Trust: The Japanese Trust as Legal Transplant (in preparation).

Beck Pearse is Lecturer in Environmental Social Sciences jointly appointed to the Australian National University’s School of Sociology and Fenner School of Environment and Society. Her work sits at the nexus of social theory and political economy, focusing on the links between environmental change with distributive conflicts in our society and economy. Beck’s current research projects investigate the evolution and value relations of ‘green’ markets, with particular focus on labour and land in the 'net zero' economy. She has also made significant contributions to the study of gender, the sociology of knowledge, and inequalities.

Dr Jessica Urwin is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Centre for Environmental History at ANU. Her research explores the enactment of ‘nuclear colonialism’ across twentieth-century Australia, examining the relationship between colonialism and various nuclear processes, including radioactive mineral extraction, nuclear weapons testing and radioactive waste disposal. She has been the recipient of several Australian history prizes, including the Australian Historical Association’s Jill Roe Prize, and her research has been published in journals such as History Australia and Australian Historical Studies. She also frequently writes for public-facing platforms such as Inside Story, The Conversation and the Australian Book Review.