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Professor Angela Paladino is the Deputy Vice-President of Academic Board at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Some of her research centres on the use of AI in education to maximise student learning outcomes as well as understanding the effects of professional development on student learning outcomes. She has published her work in journals including the Journal of Product Innovation Management; Teaching and Teacher Education; Personality and Social Psychology Review; Journal of Marketing Education and The Journal of Business Ethics. Angela has been awarded over 12 international and national teaching awards and is the recipient of over $35M in competitive funding from national and international agencies. Angela is the Associate Editor (AE) of the Italian Journal of Marketing and the former Associate Editor of the Journal of Product Innovation Management (JPIM). She is on the editorial review board of multiple journals including JPIM, the Journal of Marketing Education and the Journal for the Advancement of Marketing Education.

Dr. McCrindle is an Associate Professor, Teaching Stream in the Department of Language Studies at the University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC). She currently serves as Associate Dean, Teaching and Learning and Director of UTSC’s Centre for Teaching and Learning (CTL). Dr. McCrindle’s academic expertise lies in French Linguistics and Pidgin and Creole Languages and she has extensive teaching and administrative experience, having served in several leadership roles. For many years, she produced and hosted radio programs EthniCity and lingua…musica, featuring music and culture from around the world. Dr.

McCrindle was an active member of UTSC’s Curriculum Review Working Circle, which developed a comprehensive report with fifty-six recommendations related to inclusion, Indigeneity, anti-racism, and international and intercultural perspectives. She is also an inaugural member of the Equity Committee of Canada’s Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education and a U of T representative on the Bay View Alliance.

Dr. Hancock is the Director of the Centre for Teaching and Learning Research at the University of Sussex in the UK. A native of Maryland, USA, she experienced a transatlantic education before starting her career teaching in elementary schools. She later moved to England, where she taught in a specialist school for young children with severe intellectual disabilities.

Dr. Hancock has held various academic positions across multiple UK universities and most recently served as the Head of Initial Teacher Education at the University of Sussex. Her research focuses on integration of playful pedagogies in higher education and the importance of play for autistic children. Additionally, she has led several funded projects aimed at enhancing research culture within her department and across the University.

Jody Greene came to UC Santa Cruz in 1998 and has served as Professor of Literature, Feminist Studies, and the History of Consciousness. Their research interests in legal and literary studies include Early Modern intellectual property law;  non-dualist Western philosophy, especially the work of Spivak, Derrida, and Nancy; human rights and international law; queer studies; and the history of literary discourse and literary institutions. Their most recent co-edited collection is Teaching Environmental Justice, co-edited with Sikina Jinnah, Jessie Dubreuil, and Sam Foster (Edward Elgar 2023). Jody writes frequently for and is regularly interviewed in the higher education press, including the Chronicle of Higher Education and Inside Higher Ed. Jody is the recipient of the UCSC Humanities Division John Dizikes Teaching Award (2008), the Disability Resource Center Champion of Change Award (2018), and, twice, of the UCSC Academic Senate Excellence in Teaching Award (2001, 2014). In 2016 they were appointed the founding Director of the Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning (CITL, now the TLC) and now serves as UC Santa Cruz’s first Associate Campus Provost.