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I have been working as a free lance writer, voice artist and professional teacher/trainer in Italy for the last thirty years. I have worked extensively with the British Council as a teacher, inter-cultural competence trainer and examiner, and through them have worked at various universities in the North of Italy. For the last twenty years I have also collaborated with the English Language magazine Speak Up contributing articles and voice recordings about my specific areas of interest: intercultural communication, the environment, sustainability as well as UK history, culture and society.
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Dr Sarah-Jane Fenton is a Lecturer in Mental Health Policy at the University of Birmingham Institute for Mental Health (IMH). The IMH is an interdisciplinary research centre with a specific youth mental health focus that will deliver high quality internationally relevant research to inform and impact upon public policy and practice and improve the care and outcomes for people experiencing problems with their mental health. Sarah-Jane has particular expertise in youth, adolescence, mental health, health policy, realist and qualitative research.
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Spanning a range of private, academic and non-profit sector roles, Ingrida has worked with government agencies, judiciary, law enforcement, private sector and NGOs to counter corruption, increase integrity in public and private sectors, and improve approaches to irregular migration. She continues to lecture at the University of Cambridge, Centre for Development Studies. She is currently researching potential risks to community cohesion between refugees and host communities in Central Europe as well as proportionality of regulation of cross-border private philanthropic flows.
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Senior Economic Analyst for the NSW Ministry of Health, Australia. Most of my work experience has sought to address market failure and resource allocation in the environment and health fields within state government. The recent convergence of multiple unresolved issues have highlighted the need for a redistribution of resources and more sustainable living.
I think open discussions with a wide audience would be a good start to understanding how we can all live full, peaceful lives with each other and our surroundings.
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Professor of Disability Sciences at University of Tsukuba in Japan. https://tsuge-lab-u-tsukuba.jp/en/
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Rosie Collington is a PhD candidate at UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP). She is a Coordinator of the Economics of Innovation Working Group with the Institute for New Economic Thinking’s Young Scholars Initiative. She has also worked on a freelance basis with a number of think tanks and advocacy groups, and has written for public audiences in The Guardian, The New Statesman, openDemocracy and elsewhere. Political economist and writer, exploring public sector reform, outsourcing, climate governance, and the political economy of the state.
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I am a Teaching Associate at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge and a Lecturer in Education and Early Childhood Studies at Middlesex University. I have taught in universities, primary and nursery schools from 1992 onwards, so have over 30 years of experience working in Education. My PhD looked at the representation of education by the BBC after World War 2. My research and publications have also addressed arts education and oracy in the 20th century. I am currently interested in young muslim women's experiences of teacher training and teaching in primary schools.
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Anthropologist (PhD) and psychologist, Master degree in international cooperation and development. Working as a consultant and researcher on social and cultural policies, monitoring and evaluation for UNESCO and other international organizations.
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I am a Researcher with Nexus University. I am a former Hong Kong PhD Fellow (2019/2020) and an awardee of the Road and Belt Graduate Scholarship by the Hong Kong Special Administrative (HSAR) Government. I obtained a PhD in Social Policy from Lingnan University in Hong Kong (November, 2022). My research interests include Youth and labour market policies, informal labour markets, migration policies and urban policies. My aim is to contribute inclusive development in Africa through applied research and social policy. I also hold a Master in International Development and Cooperation from Ajou University in South Korea.
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I am a Postdoc at KNAW in the Odeuropa project working on historical multilingual text processing. I was a postdoc at Koc University in the European Research Commission projects “Emerging Welfare” and “Social ComQuant: Excelling in Computational and Quantitative Social Sciences in Turkey” between 2017 and 2021. My dissertation was on extracting actionable information from social media at Radboud University. I worked in industrial, governmental, and academic settings to process news and social media text in various domains throughout my career.