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A pracademic with a track record in editing peer reviewed journals, publishing papers, chapters, books with a particular focus on stress, resilience, health and wellbeing. A Chartered Biologist, Chartered Psychologist and Chartered Scientist. Currently Adjunct Professor of Coaching Psychology at Aalborg University, Denmark. Stephen was a Professor of Practice at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David from 2018 to 2024.
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Katie Richards-Schuster, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Minor Programs at the University of Michigan School of Social Work in Ann Arbor, MI, USA. Her research focuses on understanding the strategies and approaches for engaging young people in communities, the contexts and environments that facilitate youth engagement across settings, and the impact of youth participation in creating community change. She has worked in and with communities to promote youth participation and has led national and global efforts to increase youth voice in research and evaluation. She is a leading scholar in using participatory research and evaluation approaches with young people and communities and is the former co-chair of the Youth Focused Evaluation TIG within the American Evaluation Association.
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I a public policy professional with over 10 years of experience across the UK Government for 5 years managing rights of minorities to responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, working on housing, trade and consumer protection legislation. I have engaged and worked with minority communities in the UK mostly with gender, ethnic and religious minorities. I have completed a masters in public policy from the University of Oxford and seeking to add value and contribute to the field of social inclusion and data. I am also a fellow of the Oxford SDG Impact Lab.
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Assistant Professor in Early Childhood Education at Universiti Brunei Darussalam. Brunei National Representative for Asia Pacific Regional Network for Early Childhood (ARNEC).
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Experienced Assistant Professor with SRMU.
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King Carl Tornam Duho, ACMA CGMA is a finance and economic professional with many years of experience in the private sector, academia and public policy. He is a Chartered Accountant and a Youth Fellow with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). He was an ex-UNCTAD intern and has consulted for UNICEF, GIZ, AERC, and Oxfam, among others. King has written extensively on the financial services sector, the cocoa sector, the extractives industry, the stock market, climate change and other wider economic issues. He is a Technical Advisor for Dataking Research Lab. King is a Senior Fellow with the VIT Centre for (TVET) Policy and Education. He holds Bachelor of Science and Master of Philosophy degrees in accounting. He published more than 40 articles including over 15 in peer-reviewed journals including the International Journal of Learning and Intellectual Capital, Journal of Financial Crime, International Journal of Managerial Finance, and Journal of Economic Studies.
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I am a communications specialist based in Abuja, Nigeria, with the Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG) is a private sector-led think-tank and policy advocacy group based in Nigeria. The NESG promotes sustainable growth and the development of the Nigerian economy. It is a non profit, non-partisan and apolitical organization.
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My name Is Bo, I am an associate professor at Aalborg University, Denmark, in the Department of Communication and Psychology. I have a strong interest in the Capability Approach of Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum, and the applications of it in different fields. Furthermore, I try to combine it with the social psychological framework and method of positioning theory - a discursive psychological theory combining a microsociological focus (influenced by Erwin Goffman and Harold Garfinkel) on people's concrete interactions with an acute sense of the conceptual discriminations drawn upon in these interactions.
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Dr Lucy Michael is a sociologist in practice and consultant on equality and integration issues. Her work particularly addresses racist discrimination and violence, experiences of victims, and the roles of statutory institutions and civil society in combating hate crime and exclusion. She is author (with Bryan Fanning) of Immigrants as Outsiders in the Two Irelands (MUP, 2019), and (with Samantha Schulz) of Unsettling Whiteness (Brill, 2019).
She is also a Commission Member on the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission. Dr Michael has conducted research with a wide range of public and private sector bodies including the International Organisation for Migration, UK Home Office and European Network Against Racism. She is co-author with INAR of the iReport.ie racist incident reporting system used to map racism in Ireland. She holds a Bachelor of Civil Law degree from University College Dublin, and MA in Criminology and Research Methods and PhD from Keele University. She previously held lecturing posts at Ulster University and University of Hull, and is a former President of the Sociological Association of Ireland.
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Thomas Gillespie is Professor of Environmental Sciences and Environmental Health at Emory University. His research examines the interface of biodiversity and health using a mixed-methods approach to understand disease dynamics and guide policies that protect human and wildlife health, while simultaneously promoting the sustainability of ecosystems. He co-directs the Gombe One Health Hub in Tanzania in collaboration with the Jane Goodall Institute and serves as Director of Infectious Disease Research at Centre Valbio in Madagascar. He is an external expert to the UN High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development, a member of the IUCN/SSC, and a National Geographic Explorer.