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Dr Wil Hoverd is a senior lecturer at Massey University and Director of the university’s Centre for Defence and Security Studies. He is a social scientist with a specific interest in critical research into New Zealand security issues and religious diversity. He was a contributor to and editor of New Zealand National Security: Challenges, trends and issues published by Massey University Press in 2017. Deidre McDonald works at the Centre for Defence and Security Studies, Massey University. Her areas of research include biosecurity, food safety and law.

Born in 1959, David Howard co-founded the literary journal Takahe (1989) and the Canterbury Poets Collective (1990) in his home town, Christchurch. He has collaborated with visual artists such as the photographer Fiona Pardington and the painter Kim Pieters; contributed to Art New Zealand; provided libretti for the composers Sofia Filyanima (Russia), Brina Jez (Slovenia), Marta Jirackova (Czech Republic), and Johanna Selleck (Australia). He was the editor of A Place To Go On From: the Collected Poems of Iain Lonie (Otago University Press, 2015). The writing of Rawaho: the Completed Poems has been supported by the Robert Burns Fellowship at Otago University (2013); the Otago Wallace Residency (2014); a UNESCO City of Literature Residency in Prague (2016); the Ursula Bethell Residency at Canterbury University (2016); the Writers' House Residency, Pazin, Croatia (2017); the Grimshaw Sargeson Residency (2018); and a UNESCO City of Literature Residency in Ulyanovsk (2019).

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Dr Cate Howell is a GP, therapist, researcher, educator and author. She has over 40 years of training and experience in the health sphere, and is passionate about the areas of mental health, wellbeing and counselling. Currently Cate is mostly involved in education and writing related to these areas.

Dr Cate Howell is a GP, therapist, researcher, educator and author. She has over 40 years of training and experience in the health sphere, and is passionate about the areas of mental health, wellbeing and counselling. Currently Cate is mostly involved in education and writing related to these areas.

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Dr Cate Howell is a GP, therapist, educator and author. Cate currently works as a General Practitioner with Defence, and also has a private practice focusing on mental health and various teaching activities. Alex Barnard is an educator and musician with a postgraduate degree in psychology. Alex has been passionate about mental health and wellbeing since he was a teenager, especially anxiety and depression prevention and intervention. He hopes to study Music Therapy to help people through music.

Tony Howell joined the New Zealand Army as a Regular Force Cadet at the age of sixteen, graduating as a qualified Instructor All Arms in the Infantry Corps. In 1963, he attended the Portsea Officer Cadet School, graduating as a 2nd Lieutenant after 12 months. As well as serving as a Senior Instructor at the School of Infantry, Tony served in 1 RNZIR as a Platoon Commander during the Borneo Confrontation and in Vietnam with V2 Company, as the Mortar Platoon Commander in the rank of Captain and, later, as a Company Commander in the rank of Major. After several staff appointments, he commanded the NZ Special Air Service for four years in the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. After 28 years of distinguished service, Tony resigned to create his own Scuba diving business, a passion he still enjoys.

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