Professor Inas Abou Youssef

Dean of Mass Communication Faculty at Ahram Canadian University since 2015. She is a Professor of Journalism and the Editor in Chief of the Arab Journal of Media & Communication Research, one of the high-ranked refereed journals in Egypt. Professor Abou Youssef’s main fields of research interests are international communication and media and gender. She was a board member of the Egyptian National Council of Women, 2006-2009 and the technical consultant of Media Women Watch National Council of Women and UNICEF 2004-2011. She is one of the founders of The Arab-European Association for Media and Communication Researchers (AREACORE) since 2013. As a Dean of the Mass Communication Faculty, she has a running collaboration program of students exchange with Free University in Berlin and an MOU with Montclair University.

Dr. Oluwatoyin C. Agbonifo

Dr. (Mrs) Oluwatoyin C. Agbonifo is an Associate Professor in the Department of Information Systems at The Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria. She obtained her B.Sc. degree in Computer Science from the University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria. She received her M.Tech and PhD. degrees in Computer Science from the Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria respectively. She has authored/co-authored a number of articles in both local and international refereed journals and conference proceedings. She is a regular reviewer in local as well as international scientific/academic journals. She is a member of the NCS, CPN, IEEE, AACE and OWSD. Her research interest areas include Personalised and Adaptive Ubiquitous Learning Systems, Digital Game-Based Learning Systems, Software Engineering, and Artificial Intelligence.

Associate Professor Aini Ahmad

Associate Professor Aini Ahmad is working as an Associate Professor at KPJ University College Malaysia as of February 2019. She graduated from the University of Malaya with a Doctor of Philosophy in 2012 and has over 20 years of clinical experience. Her area of expertise is in public health, midwifery nursing and nursing education.

Yewande M. AKINOLA

Yewande M. AKINOLA is a young Computer Scientist who is passionate about solving problems associated with information management and computer aided learning through information technology systems. She completed her Bachelors and Master's degree in Computer Science from the Department of Computer Science, Federal University of Technology Akure in 2014 and 2020 respectively. Her previous research work and expertise includes the application of virtual reality systems in computer aided learning and cyber security. She is looking forward to pursuing an academic career with a research focus in Computer Science and Information technology.

Jorge L. D. Albelo

Professor Albelo is an Assistant Professor of Aeronautical Science at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona Beach Campus. His areas of expertise include underrepresented minorities in aviation, qualitative methods of research, aviation education & curriculum development, and airline operations. He is presently a candidate for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Higher Education Administration.

Pratiksha Alamman

Pratiksha Alamman has completed her Bachelors in Education and Masters in English from Assam. She is currently working as an English Tutor in Jawahar Navodaya Vidyala, Tinsukia, Assam. Her areas of research interests are cultural studies, folk studies, gender studies, and applied pedagogy.

Ishaq Al-Naabi

Ishaq Al-Naabi is an English Language Lecturer (post-foundation courses coordinator) at the University of Technology and Applied Sciences- Oman. He has been teaching in higher education for 10 years. He has received his BeD in English Language from Sultan Qaboos University (Oman) in 2011, and his MeD in Curriculum and Teaching Methods of English from Sultan Qaboos University (Oman) in 2019. He is currently a Ph.D. student at Lancaster University in E-Research and Technology Enhanced Learning. He does research in Online Curriculum Design and Evaluation, Teaching Methods, Language Education, Teacher Education, and Higher Education.

Dr. Maysoun Ali

Dr. Maysoun Ali graduated from the Department of Teaching and Learning at Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, in 2017. Her research interest is in enhancing language learning with the use of technology. She had some years of experience teaching English as a second language at the University of Idaho for college students.  She currently works as a lead teacher and family advocate at the Headstart/ECEAP Program/Community Childcare Center, Pullman, WA. 

Rawdha AlMarar

Rawdha AlMarar is the director of the Professional Licensing Department at the Ministry of the Education, United Arab Emirates. She was seconded to the Ministry in 2018 as the youngest director to establish and lead the licensing process for educational professionals. Rawdha is a holder of two Masters degrees, one in Mechanical Engineering from Khalifa University and another in Business Administration from Abu Dhabi School of Management, as well as a Diploma in Future Foresight.

Doaa Alterri

Doaa Alterri is a Specialist at the Ministry of Education, United Arab Emirates. Doaa joined MOE in 2019. Before that, she held a Lab Instructor position in Khalifa University of Science, Technology and Research from 2014 to 2016. Doaa graduated from Khalifa University in 2016 with a Master’s degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Her research areas include educational evaluation, wireless communication, and vehicular networks.

Mr Innocent Uche Anazia

Mr Innocent Uche Anazia holds a bachelor’s degree in Education/Economics & Statistics from the University of Benin, Nigeria. He also holds a M.Ed in Measurement & Evaluation from the University of Benin and a MSc in Educational Leadership (with distinction) from Queen’s University Belfast, UK. He is currently applying for a PhD. His research interests include educational leadership (both formal and non-formal) across all levels of education; educational inequality and marginalization; school effectiveness and improvement; and educational evaluation.

Nelson Ang

Nelson’s journey as a teacher has taken him through the spectrum of education institutions in Singapore, both public and private. He is also privileged to have had his footprint extend beyond the shores of Singapore, collaborating with and learning from many esteemed educators. This journey has reinforced his view that all learners are capable of academic success. Should success be initially elusive, still a way can be found to facilitate students' learning by focusing on student-to-student interactions and student-to-content interactions. The impact of these two forms of interactions extends beyond the classroom; they empower students to create and re-create their future realities rather than echo the history of generations gone.

Jolene Anthony

Jolene Anthony completed a Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Forensic Biology and Toxicology at Murdoch University, WA. Within forensic science, Jolene is specifically interested in forensic chemistry.

In the last year of her undergraduate studies, Jolene was selected as one of the five participants in #BreakingBarriers, an innovative international course in forensic science hosted in Malaysia, where Australian and Malaysian forensic students were trained in mass disaster investigation. This cross-cultural experience was funded by the Australian Government through the New Colombo Mobility Plans and garnered international publicity.

Dr Serhiy Babak

Doctor of Technical Sciences with 20 years of scientific and teaching experience, and more than 60 academic publications on Economic and Technical Sciences. At present, Serhiy is the Director of Educational Programs at the Ukrainian Institute for the Future that works on strategic analysis, modeling, political and policy making consultancy.

Previously, Serhiy Babak was the head of the Scientific Center at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, a member of the National Agency for Quality Assurance in Higher Education of Ukraine, and the former Vice-Rector of a private university.

 He is a Master of Sports in motorsports, and a champion of Ukraine.

Lucy Barnhart

Lucy Barnhart is a recent graduate of Leiden University College, with a BA in Social Sciences. Her areas of interest are sustainability and health. Currently she is based in The Hague, the Netherlands.

Dr Steven Barrett

Steven is presently an Assistant Professor of Education Extension at Soochow University, a highly regarded private university in Taipei, Taiwan. He is a very passionate educator with more than thirty years experience teaching economics courses in South Australia and China. Steven has a a PhD in labour economics from the University of Adelaide and an EdD in educational measurement from Flinders University. His claim to fame is that he is the first person to graduate from Flinders with a professional doctorate. His research focuses on educational measurement and evaluation in education using modern psychometric techniques including the Rasch Test Model and the Partial Credit Model. He is a member of the Transdisciplinary Measurement and Evaluation Research Group (TMERG) based at the University of Adelaide in South Australia.

Dr Isabelle Bartkowiak-Théron

Dr Isabelle Bartkowiak-Théron specialises in socio-legal studies, with a particular interest in police interaction with vulnerable people. She is the lead senior researcher on the vulnerability, police education, and law enforcement and public health research streams at the Tasmanian Institute of Law Enforcement Studies, University of Tasmania, Australia. In her teaching capacity, she coordinates the Tasmania Police Recruit Course for the university, within which she teaches on police interactions with vulnerable people and the related legislation. She was granted two teaching awards and two teaching citations between 2015 and 2019. Isabelle sits on various international and Australian professional and research governance boards including the Australian Institute of Police Management Ethical Review and Research Governance Advisory Committee. She heads up the international Law Enforcement and Public Health Special Interest Group on Education via the Global Law Enforcement and Public Health Association. She sits on the board of Connect42 (a non-for-profit that promotes literacy across all ages), on the board of the Australia New Zealand Society of Criminology as the Tasmanian elected representative, on the Australian Crime Prevention Council as the executive member for Tasmania, and on the Tasmanian Sentencing Advisory Council.

Dr Kim Beasy 

Dr Kim Beasy is a Senior Lecturer specialising in issues of equity and diversity in curriculum and pedagogy in the School of Education at the University of Tasmania. Kim’s research areas include culturally responsive education, teacher training and social and environmental sustainability.

Professor Monideepa Becerra 

Dr. Monideepa Becerra is a Full Professor (with tenure) in the Department of Health Science and Human Ecology at California State University, San Bernardino (CSUSB). She holds a Master of Public Health (MPH) in Health Policy, Doctor of Public Health in Health Education (DrPH), and certificate in Health Geo Informatics. She is also a Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES). Dr. Becerra is also a competitively selected Fellow for the 2020-2022 Center for Civic Policy & Leadership Healing Communities through Racial Justice. Dr. Becerra was competitively selected as a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs National Diversity Fellow, during which she worked at William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital, Department of Research, Madison, Wisconsin, on infectious disease epidemiology. Her research interests include social determinants of health and effective pedagogy for higher education, with an emphasis on adult learners. Dr. Becerra has published over 35 peer-reviewed articles, two book chapters, and presented over 48 scholarly abstracts/presentations. She has received over 35 of grants and awards for her research, teaching, and service. 

Dr Francis Ben

Francis is currently Senior Lecturer and Head of Postgraduate and Research at Tabor Faculty of Education – a private tertiary education provider in South Australia. His research areas include Science and Mathematics Education, and ICT in Education. His research also covers measurement and evaluation in Education. He mainly employs in his data analysis newer psychometric techniques including the Rasch Model and multi-level modelling. Francis continues to publish in the following areas: The use of ICT in teaching; Examination of the utility of survey scales; and Physics/Science Education. He is a co-founder and member of the Transdisciplinary Measurement and Evaluation Research Group (TMERG) based at the University of Adelaide in South Australia.

Professor John Biggs

Professor John Biggs is a world-famous psychologist and educationist who in 2017, was invested as a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for “significant service to tertiary education, particularly in the fields of curriculum development and assessment”. John Biggs has been actively involved in education for six decades and has been a Professor of both Education and Psychology. Professor Biggs’ most ground-breaking and innovative contributions are the SOLO taxonomy, constructively aligned OBTL (Outcome-based Teaching & Learning), criterion-referenced assessment and students’ surface and deep approaches to learning.

John Biggs is a fifth generation Tasmanian. He started his academic career in England at the National Foundation for Educational Research. He has held academic posts in the University of New England NSW, Monash University, and the Universities of Alberta, Canada, Newcastle NSW, and Hong Kong. All this is narrated in graphic detail in his academic memoirs, Changing Universities. After he retired from his last position as Professor of Education at Hong Kong University, like the autumn leaf in the Chinese proverb, he fell to his roots in Tasmania, where he lives with his wife Catherine. John Biggs has also written six novels, a collection of short stories, and a socio-political history of Tasmania.

Dr. Marie-Louise Bird

Dr Marie-Louise Bird is an Australian registered Physiotherapist, and clinician scientist working primarily in knowledge translation. The main focus of Dr Bird's research is to improve engagement of older adults, or those with chronic conditions like stroke, with relevant types of physical activity and exercise, with the goal of reducing sedentary behaviour and reducing fall risks. She currently investigates the application of  a number of knowledge translation tools to impact clinical practice with international colleagues as part of ongoing collaborations at the University of British Columbia (honorary affiliation).  She actively engages end users of her research with an integrated knowledge translation approach and is passionate about extending the reach of the health care system into communities to support transitions in care.

Dr Jeff Boersma

Jess Boersma serves as an Associate Dean and Director of Applied Learning at UNCW. He earned his BS from the Uni­versity of Wisconsin at Madison and his PhD from Emory University. Dr. Boersma has been the editor of two volumes on literature and society and is a Guest Editor for an upcoming issue of the Journal of Applied Learning in Higher Education. He has been the principal investigator on several external grants including Association of American Colleges and Universities research grants on applied learning and US government grants concerning language, regional expertise, culture, and pedagogical development.

Professor Robert J. Bonk

Robert J. Bonk, Ph.D., is Professor of Professional Writing at Widener University, in Chester, Pennsylvania, USA.  With educational credentials encompassing technical communication and healthcare science, Dr Bonk remains fascinated by the healthcare contexts of communication.  As an educator, he focuses his research on the pedagogies of open education for experiential community engagement.  His research findings have been published and presented both locally and internationally.  His third book, Writing for Today’s Healthcare Audiences, was published in 2015 by the Broadview Press.  In 2009, he was named Fellow of the American Medical Writers Association.  Prior to joining academia, Dr Bonk led the communication area of an international pharmaceutical firm.  His personal pursuits include ice dance and watercolors.

Samantha Bowyer

Samantha Bowyer is an Assistant Professor of Aeronautical Science. She moved to Florida shortly after high school to pursue her passion for aviation. After completing her accelerated flight program she went on to complete a degree in Business Management and her MBA, with a Specialization in Project Management. Professor Bowyer also holds a Project Management Professional Certificate from the Project Management Institute.

Heather Bridgman 

Heather is a Clinical Health Psychologist and Lecturer in Rural Mental Health. She has a strong community engagement focus, is well connected across the state though mental health networks and has previously worked in rural Tasmania as a Clinical Health Psychologist specialising in comorbid chronic disease and mental health. Her focus is on rural mental health workforce development and service evaluation, community engagement and interprofessional education and practice. 

Professor Stephen D. Brookfield

Since beginning his educational career in 1970, Stephen has worked in England, Canada, and the United States, teaching and consulting in a variety of adult, community, organizational and higher education settings. His overall project is to help people learn to think critically about the dominant ideologies they have internalized and how these can be challenged. He is particularly interested in methodologies of critical thinking, discussion and dialog, critical reflection, leadership, and the exploration of power dynamics, particularly around racial identity and white supremacy. To that end he has written, co-written or edited twenty books on adult learning, teaching, critical thinking, discussion methods, critical theory, leadership and teaching race, six of which have won the Cyril O. Houle World Award for Literature in Adult Education (in 1986, 1989, 1996, 2005, 2011 and 2012). His academic appointments have included positions at the University of British Columbia, Teachers College Columbia University (New York), Harvard University and the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis-St. Paul. He has consulted with numerous organizations and institutions across the world and delivered multiple workshops and conference keynotes. He is currently Antioch University Distinguished Scholar, Adjunct Professor at Teachers College, Columbia University (New York) and Emeritus Professor at the University of St. Thomas (Minneapolis-St. Paul).

His most recent book - Becoming a White Antiracist: A Practical Guide for Educators, Leaders and Activists (co-authored with Mary Hess) is published by Stylus Publishers.

Professor Natalie Brown

Professor Natalie Brown is the Director of the  Peter Underwood Centre for Educational Attainment. A former teacher of mathematics and science, Natalie has held a number of positions at the University of Tasmania since her appointment in 2001 to the Faculty of Education as a Lecturer in Science Education. Natalie became Program Director of the postgraduate Bachelor of Teaching course in 2003. In 2008, she moved to the central Academic Development Unit, continuing to teach and supervise higher degree students in both the Faculty of Education and the Faculty of Science, Engineering and Technology. Natalie has been the recipient of a number of teaching awards, culminating in a National Teaching Excellence award in 2013.  

Natalie has held a number of leadership roles at the University including  Director of Academic Quality and Director of the Tasmanian Institute of Learning and Teaching. She is currently Chair of Academic Senate. Natalie’s research interests encompass student engagement, teacher professional learning, STEM education and Technology Enhanced Learning and Teaching. More information can be found at: http://www.utas.edu.au/profiles/staff/underwood-centre/natalie-brown.

Associate Professor Rob Burton

Associate Professor Rob Burton is currently International Program Director (Bachelor of Nursing) and International Lead, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Griffith University; based in Singapore. Previously he was a Principal University Lecturer and International Director, School of Human & Health Sciences, University of Huddersfield, UK, where he had led a Professional Doctorate in Human and Health Sciences and the MSc Health Professional Education. He is the co-editor and author of ‘Nursing: Transition to Professional Practice’ published by Oxford University Press in 2011. His Doctorate research focused on learning and thinking style preferences. His recent focus has been on transnational education and international students.

Dr Kerryn Butler-Henderson

Dr Kerryn Butler-Henderson is the Associate Professor of Digital Innovation in Health and Health Pedagogy at the University of Tasmania. She is internationally recognised for her research expertise in digital health workforce and capabilities. She has held two Australian Learning and Teaching grants examining digital innovation in learning and competencies, and provides leadership in digital capabilities in higher education.

Associate Professor Alison Jane Canty

Associate Professor Alison Canty holds a leadership role in Learning and Teaching at the Wicking Dementia Research and Education Centre, University of Tasmania, Australia. She led the design and delivery of a world-first Bachelor of Dementia Care. This innovative, fully online program successfully reaches non-traditional students who are primarily in caregiving roles both nationally and internationally. The program has won several awards including an Australian Award for Programs that enhance learning (2016). Associate Professor Canty is a neuroscientist by training, with a current focus on neuroplasticity in aging and in neurodegenerative diseases such as dementia. Alison is a member of the Australasian Neuroscience Society (ANS), sits on the ANS Council and is a founding member of the Neuroscience Education and Outreach Committee for ANS. Her education research interests include tailoring and evaluating education for non traditional students, particularly in dementia education.

Associate Professor Andrea Carr

Associate Professor Andrea Carr is the Academic Lead and Associate Dean Learning and Teaching at University College at the University of Tasmania. Andrea has extensive expertise in designing, delivering and evaluating curricula in higher education and has worked across a range of disciplines including Psychology, Neuroscience, and Dementia Care. She has been recognized nationally for contributions to learning and teaching with an Office of Learning and Teaching citation for outstanding contributions to student learning in 2015. Andrea has published in the field of learning and teaching and has held and/or partnered several institutional and national learning and teaching grants.

Katharine Carruthers

Katharine Carruthers is Pro-Vice-Provost (East Asia). As such, she plays an important strategic role as a catalyst for UCL’s engagement in East Asia and leads on the planning and implementation of the UCL Global Engagement Strategy in the region. Katharine is also the Director of the UCL Institute of Education (IOE) Confucius Institute for Schools. Katharine plays a leading role in developing the study of Chinese as one of the languages on offer in the school curriculum. This work has been made possible by the IOE Confucius Institute and 45 Confucius Classrooms – supported by Hanban in partnership with Peking University and Peking University High School. Katharine is the Strategic Director for UCL’s delivery of the Department for Education’s Mandarin Excellence Programme. She also teaches on the IOE’s PGCE Languages course, working with an annual cohort of 20 PGCE students training to teach Mandarin Chinese. She is the series editor of the textbooks for teaching Chinese for 11-16-year olds and wrote the specification for the increasingly popular Cambridge Pre-U Mandarin Chinese qualification. Her research interests centre around teaching and learning of Chinese as a foreign language in schools (most recent publication Mandarin Chinese Teacher Education; IOE Press), the notion of intercultural competence in Chinese and UK schools, and globalisation and language policy. Katharine received an OBE in the 2018 New Year Honours list for her services to Education.

Aleks Catina

Aleks earned his qualifications at London Metropolitan University and the Royal College of Art. His current teaching engagement at the CASS covers design as well as history and theory, from the CASS Foundation, the BA Architecture course, through to the MA History, Research and Writing.

Aleks’ central research interest evolves around the role of dialogue in the construction and critique of the cultural field of architecture. He is specifically interested in the aesthetic function of irony as a means of architectural representation that permits conflicting meanings and disruption of singular interpretations. His forthcoming book ‘The Pillars of Uncertainty’ (autumn 2020) explores the diachronic shifts that reading of architectural form undergoes in the process of socialization. The work engages with fiction and experimental writing in an attempt to bypass the formal straight jacket of theory and making the argument accessible to a wider readership.

Dr James Chase

Dr James Chase works at the University of Tasmania as Academic Director, Student Engagement and Retention in the College of Arts, Law and Education, and Head of Discipline for Philosophy and Gender Studies in the School of Humanities. Dr Chase’s academic research is primarily in epistemology and philosophical logic, and has been published in leading philosophy journals such as Synthese, Analysis, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research and the Australasian Journal of Philosophy. James has regularly led retention and mentoring initiatives in the Bachelor of Arts as part of his teaching practice and in management roles, focusing on regional and online student cohorts, and in his current administrative role has conducted research into the nature of attrition in the Bachelor of Arts distance student cohorts in particular.  

Dr Elaine Chapman

Dr Elaine Chapman is a researcher in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Western Australia. Dr Chapman’s background is in psychology, but she has always had an interest in applying knowledge from psychology to education. Her general research interests lie in the areas of applied social and educational psychology, educational assessment, and research methods. Dr Chapman has published research and supervised doctoral students across a diverse range of areas in the field of education.

Dr. Winnie Chee

Winnie Chee, PhD, is a Professor in the Division of Nutrition & Dietetics as well as Dean, School of Health Sciences at International Medical University, Malaysia. Her research interests include diet and diabetes, renal nutrition, and bone health. She is also experienced in academic management and dietetics curriculum development and assessment.

Dr. Sabrina T. Cherry

Dr. Sabrina T. Cherry is an Assistant Professor of Public Health at the University of North Carolina Wilmington and has worked for 20 years within the field of public health. Dr. Cherry’s professional experience started as a Peace Corps Volunteer in The Gambia, West Africa. As a public health practitioner, Dr. Cherry collaborated on Community Health Needs Assessments (CHNA) for the Greater Atlanta Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure and two rural Georgia hospitals; provided technical assistance to faith-based, mini-grant recipients in Southwest Georgia; and worked on a food insecurity and medication-adherence pilot study for Persons Living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA). She served as part of a research team that won the 2018 National Economic Development Award awarded by University Economic Development Association Awards of Excellence and is the recipient of the 2019 Distinguished Scholarly Engagement and Public Service Award (Jr category) awarded by UNCW. Dr. Cherry’s primary research interests are the intersection of health and religion–including addressing health disparities–and conducting qualitative research. She earned a Master of Science Public Health (MSPH) degree from the University of South Carolina, a Master of Theological Studies (MTS) from Emory University, and a Doctorate of Public Health (DrPH), as a well as a Certificate in Interdisciplinary Qualitative Research from the University of Georgia.

Dr. Min Jung Cho

Min Jung Cho, PhD, is an Assistant  Professor in the Global Public Health major at Faculty of Global Governance and Affairs Leiden University College in the Netherlands. Her research interests include public health, interdisciplinary research, and sustainability.  

Dr. Megan Chong

Megan Chong, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer in the Division of Nutrition and Dietetics, International Medical University, Malaysia, and the Programme Director for BSc (Hons) Nutrition. Her passion in research includes community nutrition, micronutrient deficiencies, and functional food.

Ms Sarah Ciftci

Ms Sarah Ciftci is a Research Associate at the Research Centre for Children and Families, in the Sydney School of Education and Social Work at the University of Sydney, Australia. Sarah is currently working on an Australian Research Council-funded project, Fostering Lifelong Connections, that explores how the out-of-home care sector can encourage positive interactions between children’s birth and permanent care families. The project applies an action research approach and is underpinned by the interrelated principles of trauma awareness, cultural safety and respect, and reflective practice. Sarah is also working towards the attainment of her PhD in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Sydney. Her thesis explores the need for decolonisation in the context of culturally inclusive models of child protection decision-making. Sarah previously taught about cultural safety at the University of Tasmania, Sydney campuses, as well as socio-legal studies and social research methods at the University of Sydney.

Gerard Clough

After several years of teaching English across the world (Japan, Europe and north Africa), Gerard settled at Royal Holloway, University of London where he took a lead role in the development and delivery of several EAP (English for Academic Purposes) programmes for multilingual international students. Currently, as Senior Teaching Fellow for the Centre for the Development of Academic Skills, he is focussed on initiatives that aim to enable students from a range of backgrounds to excel in their academic studies within discipline-specific settings. He has been instrumental in embedded literacy development within departments including writer mentoring schemes for first year undergraduates. This focus on inclusivity extends to his work on internationalisation, notably a conference paper to the UK Council for Graduate Education (2014) and the curriculum design for the award-winning Global Leadership Programme (2017).

Dr Bianca Coleman

Dr Bianca Coleman is a Lecturer in Humanities and Social Sciences Education at the University of Tasmania. Bianca’s research interests include geography and history education, student wellbeing, and pedagogy in initial teacher education. Bianca tweets about her research at @Bianca_JColeman.  

Dr Joseph Crawford

Dr Joseph Crawford is currently Lecturer, Learning and Teaching, Academic Division, University of Tasmania; based in Tasmania. His research is focused on understanding the ways in which leadership can be developed, how student success can be enhanced in higher education, and the factors that create better student and employee psychological wellbeing. Joseph is a mixed-methods researcher, with specialist expertise in quantitative methods and psychometric evaluation. Dr Crawford also co-founded an award-winning men’s grooming company, Fifth Estate Co, and was named the 2019 Launceston Chamber of Commerce Young Professional of the Year.

Dr. Tracey Dean

Dr Tracey Dean is the Psychology Clinic Manager and Professional Experience Coordinator for the University of Tasmania, School of Psychological Sciences. She has worked in this role for over 6 years and has extensive clinical and supervision experience. Her focus is on high quality training in psychology through providing provisional psychologists with workplace experience in the internal training clinic and external agencies. A priority in this role has been the building of strong relationship with agencies and supervisors across the state to enhance the learning experience for students and to provide increased access to mental health services for the community. Dr Dean’s areas of interest include supervision and competency-based assessment, interprofessional learning, childhood anxiety prevention and management, intellectual and specific learning disabilities, mental health of older adults and psychology training in aged care facilities.

Nimrod L. Delante

Nimrod is a learning advisor at the Singapore campus of James Cook University (JCUS). A teacher by profession, Nimrod taught for seven years in the Philippines before coming to Singapore in 2011. In the Philippines, he taught English, Literature, Academic Writing and Communication. Since 2012, he has been working as a learning advisor to students in the undergraduate and postgraduate programs of JCUS. In July 2019, Nimrod was conferred his doctoral degree (Doctor of Communication) by the University of the Philippines Open University (UPOU). Apart from learning advising, Nimrod is also lecturing one subject, i.e., contemporary business communication, in the JCUS Business School. Nimrod is interested in conducting research on reflective practice, English language pedagogy and literacy skills assessment, learning and teaching, rhetoric/rhetoric studies, critical theory, phenomenology, intercultural communication, business communication, organisational communication and development communication.

Ailson De Moraes

With a profound interest in globalisation and cultures, I travel extensively around the world teaching and presenting in international conferences, universities, business forums and colleges. I am a consultant and workshop tutor for MNEs and SMEs. I am fluent in three main international languages – Portuguese, English and Spanish. These languages give me access to a market of literally billions of people around the world. I have extensive management and business experience, having worked in a variety of industrial and commercial sectors in international organisations in Brazil, Portugal, Switzerland and the UK. I run my own property portfolio with properties in the UK and Brazil, and I am an angel investor with property partners UK, and new start-ups with seedrs and crowdcube platforms.

I hold a full-time Senior Academic Position at Royal Holloway School of Management, University of London where I teach Strategy and International Business. I have Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Andrews University, Michigan, USA and an MA in Business and Culture Studies from City University, London; a Postgraduate Certificate from Fundacao Getulio Vargas (FGV), Brazil, and University of California, Irvine. I completed successfully a Postgraduate Certificate in Skills of Teaching to Inspire Learning (accredited by the Higher Education Academy UK) from Royal Holloway Educational Department, and at present, I am registered for a Doctor in Business Administration (DBA). I am a Fellow, Higher Education Academy (FHEA), Academic Fellow of the Institute of Enterprise and Entrepreneurs (AcFIOEE) and Fellow, Chartered Management Institute (FCMI).

In addition to my academic background, I have attended a number of executive and non-executive programmes. For two years I was nominated and awarded the College Teaching Excellence Award. I am also a guest Professor in several academic and non-academic institutions which include the University of Hong Kong SPACE MBA, Queen Mary, London, Global MBA, The London Metropolitan University MBA Sciences, BPP University MBA/MSc, University of Maringa, Brazil, The South American Business Forum, Argentina, Oxford University Entrepreneurship Society, and St Martins Institute, Malta, The Executive Programme.

Catherine E. Déri

Catherine E. Déri is a doctoral candidate with the Faculty of Education at the University of Ottawa in Canada. She recently completed a career transition to the world of academia, after serving 25 years as a military officer with the Canadian Armed Forces. Her current research efforts focus on challenges experienced by graduate students and strategies to facilitate their socialization to the profession of scholar through their participation in academic writing groups. She is the recipient of the University of Guelph Alumni with Impact Award.

Sayan Dey

Sayan Dey grew up in Kolkata, West Bengal, and is currently working as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Wits Centre for Diversity Studies, University of Witwatersrand. He is also the Head of the Gender Equality Program, Center for Regional Research and Sustainability Studies, India. His areas of research interests are postcolonial studies, decolonial studies, race studies, food humanities, and critical applied pedagogies, and critical diversity literacy. He can be reached at http://www.sayandey.com.

Dr Fotini Diamantidaki

Fotini Diamantidaki is a Lecturer in Education at the UCL Institute of Education, University of London UK. Fotini, has successfully co-launched a project on teaching literature in secondary school classrooms in England called ‘London Partnership launches literature’ and thanks to it, the PGCE Languages team has received a British Academy Award, for its innovative and engaging nature. She has received various small grands for developing language events at Post 16+ Level. She is the co-founder and joint chief editor of the International Journal of Education Innovation and Communication (JEICOM), Vice-president of research and academic affairs of http://coming.gr and editorial board member of the Journal of Applied Learning and Teaching (JALT). Her research interests include the integration of literature in the language classroom in combination with the internet and the digital technologies as well as the integration of world languages into the curriculum. Teacher education pedagogy and learning how to teach are fundamental strands to her research interests combined with cultural and intercultural education in classroom and higher education contexts and mentoring in teacher education. Her two most recent books have initiated the debate on the teaching of Literature in the Modern Foreign Languages classroom (read the book review) and on issues in Mandarin teacher education (read the IOE review). 

Aji Divakar

Aji Divakar graduated with Masters in Hospitality Management from Queen Margaret University, U.K. Mr. Divakar has worked with hospitality establishments in UK, USA, and India. He has been an associate lecturer with several private colleges in Singapore. He is also the Co- founder of a non-profit educational project called ‘The School’ in Kerala, India.  His current research focus is on e-learning in the Indian context and the use of mobile technologies in education.

Tracy Anne Douglas 

Tracy Douglas is an associate head (learning and teaching), first year coordinator and senior lecturer in the School of Health Sciences (University of Tasmania). Her teaching philosophy incorporates a desire to support and enrich the first year experience, share her love of science, and engage and encourage students in active learning. She continually engages in reflective and comprehensive evaluation of teaching and learning practices to sustain effective teaching for all students irrespective of their backgrounds. A strong advocate of appropriate student support, she uses a transition pedagogy and innovative active learning experiences to engage students and is currently investigating and developing resources for authentic online communication and effective flipped learning strategies. She is branch Chair of HERDSA Tasmania, leads a number of local SOTL projects and initiatives and has been recognized locally and nationally for her learning and teaching excellence, particularly with first year students.

Stephen Downes

Stephen Downes works with the Digital Technologies Research Centre at the National Research Council of Canada specializing in new instructional media and personal learning technology. He is one of the originators of the first Massive Open Online Course, has published frequently about online and networked learning, has authored learning management and content syndication software, and is the author of the widely read e-learning newsletter OLDaily. Through a thirty year career Downes has contributed pioneering work in the fields of online learning games, learning objects and metadata, podcasting, open educational resources. Today he is developing gRSShopper, a personal learning environment, offering a course on new e-learning technologies, and supporting research and development in the use of distributed ledger technology in learning applications. He is a popular keynote speaker and has spoken in three dozen countries on six continents.

Chen Du

Chen Du, MS, RDN, CNSC, LD, is a registered dietitian and a doctoral student working in Dr. Robin Tucker’s lab in the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition at Michigan State University, USA. Her dissertation focuses on sleep, diet, and health outcomes.

Fanni Dudok

Fanni is currently a graduate student at the Doctoral School of Education at the University of Szeged, Hungary.

She has a broad range of research interests, including religious conflicts in the surrounding countries of Hungary, teacher education in Hungary, the relationship between religion and socialization – including the study of religious schools women's education in different periods and the employment strategies of Hungarian youngsters.

Not only does her work consists of theoretical explorations, but it also contains quantitative statistical analyses.

During her doctoral studies she examines the theory and practice of exams and education systems in the Central and Eastern European region. The purpose of her research is to improve examination procedures and to contribute to the preparation of new curricula and regulations.

Dr. Paul Dylan-Ennis

Dr. Paul Dylan-Ennis is Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Management Information Systems in the College of Business, University College Dublin. My research focuses on the cryptocurrencies Bitcoin and Ethereum, but are increasingly oriented toward the latter. I argue cryptocurrencies are best understood as forms of cultural expression with associated micro-economies. To this end, I focus on the creativity of cryptocultures. My research is qualitative in orientation. I am influenced primarily by the theories of social imaginaries (Taylor) and the commons (Ostrom). I am interested in how these occur within the polycentric forms of governance (Polanyi) characteristic of cryptocurrency cultures.

Dr. Bronwyn Elizabeth Eager

Dr Bronwyn Eager is a Lecturer in Management at the University of Tasmania. She was awarded a PhD from Swinburne University in Melbourne, Australia, for a cross-disciplinary (psychology and entrepreneurship) investigation of health and wellbeing in entrepreneurs. She also holds a Master of Entrepreneurship and Innovation and a Graduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching (Higher Education). Her scholarly research interests include representations of entrepreneurship in popular culture, investigating minoritized entrepreneurship populations (e.g. women and seniors), and entrepreneurship education. Her academic experience is complimented by having founded, grown, and successfully exited a business which delivered creative workshops across Australia.

Louise Annette Earwaker

Louise Earwaker is a research services librarian at the University of Tasmania. In this role she supports higher degree research students and academic researchers in a range of disciplines to access and manage research information. She has an honours degree in English (University of Wales) and post-graduate qualifications in information studies (Curtin University) and higher education learning and teaching (University of Tasmania). Before becoming a librarian she was a journalist, publications editor and teacher in further education.  Her areas of research interest include information science in education, and enhancing online learning in higher education. She has also contributed to systematic reviews on health topics. 

Sandra Georges El Hadi

Sandra Georges El Hadi is seconded by UNHCR to the Lebanese Ministry of Education and Higher Education where she supports the Director General of Education. Previously, she was the project coordinator of an initiative funded by the Japan International Cooperation Agency aiming to enhance school-based management in Lebanese public schools. Prior to working in the public education sector, Sandra was an English instructor at the American University of Beirut, where she had obtained her BA in Political Studies and English Language. She received her Master’s degree in General Linguistics and Comparative Philology from Oxford University. In addition to her passion for education and international development, Sandra’s research interests lie in language, gender, and public policy.

Dr Elizabeth Elder

An experienced Registered Nurse and staff member in the School of Nursing at Griffith University in Australia, Dr Elizabeth Elder teaches in the undergraduate Bachelor of Nursing and Masters programs at the university.  She is currently the Program Advisor for the Master of Advanced Practice – Emergency Nursing program, and a Fellow of the College of Emergency Nursing Australia. Elizabeth is also a long-standing lecturer in the off-shore BN program in Singapore. In addition to her Bachelor of Nursing degree, Elizabeth holds a Bachelor of Arts (Japanese studies), Master of Nursing, Master of Advanced Practice (Emergency Nursing) and has recently completed her PhD. Her thesis focused on stress, coping and resilience in emergency room nurses. Keeping in touch with the clinical area, Elizabeth works part-time in an Emergency Room at a local hospital on the Gold Coast, Australia. Elizabeth is passionate about global health and has worked in Laos with students on international placements.

Dr. Shandell Lee Elmer

Since commencing her career as a Registered Nurse working in oncology, Shandell has had a diverse work history in the academic, health care and community sectors. She has extensive experience in quality improvement and health service research, design and evaluation. A strong advocate for primary health care, Shandell's research focuses on helping health service providers to identify and respond to health literacy needs and overcome inequity of access to healthcare. She has previously led health literacy projects focusing on former refugee communities (medication safety), cardiac rehabilitation, compensable injuries (physiotherapy), young adults (presentation to emergency department), and organisational health literacy (health and community services).  Dr Elmer has a particular interest in fostering the development of children’s health literacy and co-developed HealthLit4Kids, a primary school-based health literacy program.

Sina Erdal

I joined Portsmouth Business School in August 2019 as Senior Teaching Fellow following stints at the University of Essex and the University of Leeds for a total of more than seven years. Before that I was a full-time lecturer in Finance at various universities in Turkey and the US for close to fifteen years. My contractual obligations have been mostly teaching-focused, with specialisms in econometrics, research methods, corporate finance, portfolio management and derivatives. I hold a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Bogazici University and an MBA from the University of Georgia, USA and am a Chartered Financial Analyst since 2014.

Dr Michael D. Evans

Dr Evans is currently the Vice President, Academic for Kaplan Higher Education Australia. He is responsible for all Kaplan higher education academic operations, accreditation and registration in Australia, including two university pathways colleges and two TEQSA registered Higher Education Providers offering accredited awards up to Masters level. He also chairs the Kaplan Singapore Academic Board. Prior to joining Kaplan he was a Professor of Management and Pro Vice Chancellor of the Faculty of Business and Law at Southern Cross University, Director of the Graduate College School of Management at Southern Cross University and Deputy Director of the Graduate School of Management at the University of Adelaide.

He has undertaken a wide range of research and consulting assignments for clients including reviews of strategic planning and implementation, performance measurement and evaluation, valuation and financial analysis. He has successfully supervised 16 doctoral candidates. His education innovations include: establishment of Academic Success Centres; establishment of transnational education programs; early adoption and development of online programs; development of online learning platforms; redevelopment of curriculum development processes; and the development and implementation of the scholarship and research plan.

Dr. Jenifer Fenton

Jenifer I. Fenton, PhD, MPH, MS, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition at Michigan State University, USA. Her research interests include the role of lipids in health and disease. She also focuses on nutritional epidemiology and public health nutrition.

Dr. Claudia Firth

Claudia Firth is currently an associate lecturer at Ravensbourne University and Birkbeck, University of London. She recently completed a PhD at Birkbeck College, University of London in Cultural and Critical Studies. Her PhD examined informal adult education within a non-linear history of three moments of post-economic crises (the 1970’s, the 1930’s, and the present), situating small group learning within social and political movements of each era. Publications include The Force of Listening co-written with Lucia Farinati, a book exploring the role of listening at the intersection of contemporary art and activism, which asks what transformations listening might engender.

Claudia is also a facilitator and consultant working with groups and organisations. These have included London Community Land Trust, the Precarious Workers Brigade, London Renters Union, School for Civic Action and Limehouse Town Hall, an autonomous cultural centre in the East End of London.

Peter Fleming

Peter Fleming is a Professor at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) Business School. He previously held positions at Cambridge University, Queens Mary University of London, and Cass Business School. Peter Fleming’s research focuses on the future of work and the serious ethical implications it surfaces. He is also the author of numerous books which more recently include The mythology of work, The death of homo economics, The worst is yet to come, Sugar daddy capitalism, and Dark academia. How universities die.

Professor Annemarie Fritz-Stratmann

Annemarie Fritz-Stratmann was a full professor for psychology at the university of Duisburg-Essen, Germany since 1998. She graduated in Psychology and and completed her post-doctoral work to qualify as Professor in Psychology of Special Education and Rehabilitation. From 2015 – 2020, she was a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Johannesburg. In the past 25 years, she did research on numerical cognition applied to math learning difficulties. She is interested in the development of mathematical competencies from kindergarten age to secondary level. The main focus of her scientific work was the empirical validation of a development model of key numerical concepts and arithmetic skills from age 4 to 8. Based on this model, some diagnostic assessments (MARKO-Series) and training programs for pre-school and elementary school-children were developed.  Recently, her interest turned to assessments for older children in math and math anxiety. She is now Emerita and heads the “Akademie Wort und Zahl”, an international institute for intercultural education.

Sheena Fu

Sheena has ten years of teaching experience in private institutions in Singapore, teaching students from diploma to post-graduate level covering areas of corporate finance, financial systems, auditing and financial reporting. She received her Masters of Finance from the Australian National University and initially started her career in financial derivative sales before moving in to retail banking, developing a good knowledge for a wide range of financial products and understanding for global regulations.

More recently, Sheena has been applying this knowledge to developing online learning solutions.

Professor Richard Gagnon

Trained as a physicist (Ph. D., McGill University, Canada), professor Richard Gagnon has been involved in teacher training in technical and vocational education for most of his career at the Faculté des sciences de l’Éducation de l’université Laval (Québec, Canada). From 2008 to 2014, he chaired the Département d’études sur l’enseignement et l’apprentissage of this faculty. To date, his research activities led to the publication of more than 180 articles, conferences and reports on various topics including technical and vocational education and training, training in the workplace, learning styles, validation of work experience, learning environment, health and safety in the workplace. He is the author of Éduquer après Carl Gustav Jung suivi de Métaphores et autres vérités (Presses de l’Université Laval, 2013) and is particularly interested in transdisciplinary education as well in the relation between fundamental physical theories and the human psyche.

Kelum A.A. Gamage

Kelum A.A. Gamage received the B.Sc. Electrical Engineering degree from University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka and the PhD from University of Lancaster, UK in 2007 and 2011 respectively. He is an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering at University of Glasgow, UK and also a Visiting Academic in the Engineering Department at Lancaster University and, holds the position of Visiting Professor at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) and Sri Lanka Technological Campus (SLTC). His research interests are in radiation detection, instrumentation methods, educational development and innovation, quality assurance and enhancement. He has authored over 100 peer-reviewed technical articles. He is a Chartered Engineer of the Engineering Council (UK), a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, a Fellow of the IET, a Fellow of Royal Society of Arts and a Senior Member of IEEE.

Dr Fraser Gobede

Fraser Gobede is currently a postdoctoral fellow in mathematics education at the University of Malawi. His career in pre-service teacher education started in 2014 after joining the University of Malawi as a lecturer in mathematics education. In his professional practice, he looks for applications of educational technology in teacher preparation, partly due to his background in mathematics and computer science. The unexpected global events that have affected the education sector from 2020 have made his interest in the applications of educational technology in mathematics education grow further. Research interests: Mediation strategies in teaching mathematics in primary school, educational technology in mathematics education, and teacher education

Dr. Anupama Ghattu

Dr. Anupama Ghattu holds a PhD in Curriculum, Instruction and Media Technology with a specialization in Higher Education Teaching and Learning from Indiana State University (USA). Her research interests are student use of mobile technology to enhance learning, classroom pedagogy, instructional design, and assessment. She is currently working as Associate Professor, Teaching Learning Center, SRM University AP, India.

Dr Matt Glowatz

Matt Glowatz is College Lecturer at University College Dublin (UCD)’s College of Business delivering both undergraduate and postgraduate modules covering Digital Business and Social Media Strategy, Data Analytics for Competitive Advantage, Project Management and Digital Innovation.

Matt is the College of Business’ academic coordinator for international students and subject area coordinator for overseas MIS modules offered in Singapore, Hong Kong and Sri Lanka.

The European Commission awarded Matt with two research scholarships advising both the University of Nizwa (Oman) and Mahidol University (Thailand) on eLearning-related issues.

Matt received twice the Excellence in Teaching Awards in the Higher Diploma of Business Studies (IT) programme and won the Educational Contribution Award at the Irish Internet Association's Net Visionary Awards 2006 recognizing his significant contribution to the Irish Internet Industry through education.

In July 2015, Matt has been appointed co-chair of the Bled e-Conference special interest group focusing on Education in the Digital Economy. In June 2017, he was awarded with the Bled eConference Fellow Award 2017 in appreciation of outstanding contributions to the Bled eConference Furthermore, he has also published numerous research articles and conference contributions.

Associate Professor David Goodwin

Dr David Goodwin is Associate Professor and Head, Industry and External Engagement at Victoria University in Melbourne, Australia. He is also an accredited Arbitrator and Mediator and a practising Barrister at the Victorian Bar specialising in international business law and alternative dispute resolution. Previously David was at RMIT University in Melbourne (2014-19) where he was MBA Director from 2016 to 2019. Before becoming an academic in 2014 David had a 25 year corporate career in which he was Head of Corporate Affairs for large publicly listed companies based in Singapore, Sydney and Melbourne. He holds a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Queensland, a Diploma in Commercial Law from Monash University and a Masters of Business (Logistics) and a PhD in Law from RMIT University. David is also a Fellow of both the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators. His research interests include ethics and corporate governance, the pedagogy of learning and teaching and maritime law.

Ms Eileen Grafton

Currently working in the School of Nursing at Griffith University, Australia, Ms Eileen Grafton works in both teaching and clinical facilitation roles, including teaching in the offshore BN program in Singapore. A registered nurse for over 40 years, Eileen holds a Bachelor of Nursing degree, a Graduate Certificate in Clinical Education, and a Master of Advance Practice with Honours (first class). Her dissertation was on developing resilience through self-care. Eileen is passionate about supporting and empowering individuals’ learning and development. At Griffith university, she is a mentor for new clinical facilitators, and a long serving mentor in the Griffith Industry mentoring program. She also holds a Diploma of Holistic Counselling, with a private counselling practice, and is a career coach with the Australian College of Nursing

Associate Professor Melanie Greenwood

Associate Professor Melanie Greenwood is Director of Postgraduate Courses in the School of Nursing, University of Tasmania, Australia. Her research relates to quality and safety in health care and related risk reduction, in particular the recognition and response to deteriorating patients. She has received grants for establishing the Prevent Alcohol and Risk Related Trauma in Youth (P.A.R.T.Y. Hobart) program within Tasmanian Schools and teaching and learning grants for peer assisted teaching. Melanie’s current role is as director of postgraduate courses in the School of Nursing where she oversees very large student cohorts who typically study part-time alongside of professional work. 

Dr. Michael Andre Guerzoni

Dr Michael A. Guerzoni serves in the Aboriginal Leadership department at the University of Tasmania, researching the Indigenisation of tertiary curricula within the social sciences, humanities, law and education. He is a palawa man, who trained as a qualitative criminologist at the University of Tasmania. His specialisation is in the study of clerical cultures, attitudes and practices towards child sexual abuse and child protection in Anglicanism and Roman Catholicism.

Jodi Haines

Jodi Haines is Gomeroi on her father’s side from the community of Toomelah, mid northern New South Wales and Tasmanian of European decent on her mother’s side and is a proud member of the Pakana community in Lutruwita (Tasmania).  Jodi is a Lecturer at the Riawunna Centre for Education at the University of Tasmania, and has been coordinator of the Murina Program since January 2017 which is a pathway program to strengthen Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander student’s engagement into Higher Education.  Lifestory is at the centre of Jodi’s scholarship and has contributed to Anita Heis’s award-winning book Growing up Aboriginal in Australia. She has began writing her great grandfather Charlie Dennison’s story published in the Indigenous Australian Dictionary of Biography. Jodi has been a community worker for the past 25 years and is interested in the motivations of Pakana people to engage in higher education to meet their own expectations of success and will use her Masters of Research in Education to investigage the impact of the Aboriginal pedagogy in the Murina Program. 

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Brittany Hammond

Brittany M. Hammond earned her M.A. in Sociology and Criminology from the University of North Carolina Wilmington in 2018. Brittany has worked as a social science research assistant on a wide array of projects ranging from substance abuse in academia to best practices for prompt construction in applied learning exercises. She is currently an Evaluation Associate for Centerstone’s Research Institute, a non-profit health care organization that provides services to individuals struggling with mental health and substance use disorders in Bloomington, Indiana.

Dr. Sibella Georgia Hardcastle

Dr Sibella Hardcastle is a lecturer in clinical exercise physiology in the School of Health Sciences, Allied Health discipline at the University of Tasmania, and is a practicing accredited exercise physiologist. Sibella has research interests in the use of exercise to manage and prevent chronic health conditions.

Dr Joanna Härmä

Joanna Härmä is a writer and researcher who has conducted extensive research on low-fee private schooling targeting lower income communities in India, Nigeria, Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Mozambique. This research was carried out while working on a range of donor and foundation-funded projects and she has also worked in other African and Asian countries on issues other than private schooling. Her book Low-fee private schooling and poverty in developing countries was published in 2022. She is a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for International Education at Sussex. 

Christopher W Harris

Chris is the Director, Education at William Angliss Institute. His working life has been in two service careers, hotels and education across five countries and three continents. William Angliss, a place where learning and teaching is loved, first sharpened its knives in 1940 as a school for food, tourism, hospitality and latterly events and remains specialised and passionate about these disciplines. In the midst of a pandemic that has usurped Chris' endeavour through trial, error and research for educators to understand where digital may or may not be of use in a lot less time than the years that have passed since he first blended a course, Chris and the teaching team look to the possibilities which will sustain beyond 2040 or at least 2038 (tech. joke). Chris likes blending/mixing/relating things as  a rule to finding new ways of doing/knowing/solving, heeding the call of the bon mot that finds creativity is the ability to perceive relationships. More than this, Chris likes teaching and its noble keepers of the craft, teachers, and hopes his work can play a small part in teachers continuing to improve their work and being sure in their purpose amidst the thrust and parry of change, best exemplified at the time of writing by screen fatigue, the connected-disconnected, home schooling and opportunity aplenty.    

Dr Clayton J. Hawkins 

Dr Clayton J. Hawkins is a senior teaching fellow with the University College at the University of Tasmania. He is the coordinator of all Applied Business programs and delivers business improvement, leisure planning, sport and recreation management, industry project, and event management units for the College. Clayton is an experienced curriculum designer and administrator with specific expertise in working with students entering and navigating study via non-traditional pathways.

Dr. Suzanne Hawley

Suzanne R. Hawley, PhD, MPH, LP, is a public health academician and licensed clinical psychologist. She is Professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences (PHS) at Wichita State University, USA. She also has coaching certifications from both the International Coach Federation (ICF) and the Kansas Leadership Center (KLC). Dr. Hawley's work has focused on leadership development/training, health disparities, and mental health.

Karina Jane Heyworth

Karina Heyworth is a PhD student at the University of Southern Queensland. Her work focuses on the efficacy of psychiatric assistance dogs for posttraumatic stress disorder in Australian first responders and Defence personnel. In conjunction to her PhD studies, Karina is casually employed as a research assistant at the University of Tasmania, and an academic marker at the School of Psychology and Counselling, University of Southern Queensland. 

Qaadir Hicks

Qaadir Hicks earned his Master's degree in Higher Education Leadership from the University of North Carolina Wilmington. Currently, he has research interests in practices that can enhance applied learning and student development.

Maha Hindi

Maha Hindi is a Registration and Licensing Specialist at the Ministry of Education, United Arab Emirates. She joined the Professional Licensing Department in October 2018 to contribute her experience and knowledge to continuously improve the educational system. Maha graduated from Khalifa University of Science, Technology and Research in 2017 with a Master degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering. In her thesis, she studied the impact of obesity on the biomechanical aspects of the foot among Emirate’s population. She holds a Bachelor degree in Biomedical Engineering from the same university. She worked as a researcher and teaching assistant for several years at the university.

Mr Matthew Hingston

Mr Matthew Hingston is the Manager, Early Intervention at the University of Tasmania, Australia, leading a team using data sources and direct connection to lecturing staff to identify and engage students at risk of attrition / poor performance and assists in the evidence-based placement of supports in priority areas of student failure or attrition. More recently, Mr Hingston has developed an online orientation for distance/fully online students who have higher than average attrition. Matthew has 20 years experience working in the education sector, including teaching EAL overseas and in the migrant sector in Australia, with the last 15 years spent in student support roles in higher education. Matthew is interested in the student transition experience into higher education as a cultural space and developments in big data in identifying students at risk and peer and staff support programs that use this for an early intervention approach.

Professor Dean Ho

Professor Dean Ho is currently Provost’s Chair Professor, Director of The Institute for Digital Medicine (WisDM) at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine; Director of The N.1 Institute for Health (N.1), and Head of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the National University of Singapore.

Prof Ho and collaborators successfully developed and validated CURATE.AI, a powerful artificial intelligence platform that personalizes human treatment for a broad spectrum of indications ranging from oncology, to digital therapeutics and infectious diseases, among others. His team also developed IDentif.AI to optimise combination therapy design against SARS-CoV-2 and to address antimicrobial resistance. Recently, his team unveiled WisDM Green, a technology platform to sustainably address food security and optimise yield while preserving nutritional content.

Prof. Ho is an elected Fellow of the US National Academy of Inventors (NAI), American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), and the Royal Society of Chemistry. He was also recently named to the HIMSS Future50 Class of 2021 for his internationally recognised leadership in digital health. Prof. Ho is also a Subgroup Lead in the World Health Organization (WHO) Working Group for the regulation of AI for Health. Prof Ho has appeared on the National Geographic Channel Program “Known Universe,” and Channel News Asia’s “The Hidden Layer: Healthcare Trailblazers". His discoveries have been featured on CNN, The Economist, National Geographic, Forbes, Washington Post, NPR and other international news outlets.

Prof. Ho is a recipient of the Tech Heroes from Crisis Pathfinder Award from the Singapore Computer Society, NSF CAREER Award, Wallace H. Coulter Foundation Translational Research Award, and V Foundation for Cancer Research Scholar Award, among others. He has also served as the President of the Board of Directors of the Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS), a leading global drug development organization.

Angela Hope

Angela currently leads Clinical Skills and Simulation at Calderdale and Huddersfield Foundation Trust based across two hospitals. Based in medical education since taking up the post in 2016 Angela also takes the remit for multi-professional and Allied health professional education. A key area in this role is currently is collaborative working and ‘in situ’ simulation.

Angela was previously academic lead for simulated learning until 2015 as a Senior Lecturer in the school of nursing at the University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia. Prior to this Angela took the lead on practice and Clinical skills at the University of Huddersfield from 2002 where she also took responsibility for staff and student exchange opportunities.

A Registered nurse, Lecturer Practitioner and Nurse Teacher with the Nursing and Midwifery Council in the UK, in 2011 Angela became a Teaching Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, UK with specialist area of Simulated Learning with related publications.

Angela is the chair of the Clinical Skills Network for Yorkshire and Humber, sitting on the regional Clinical Advisory Group, Health Education England. Angela has a focus on quality standards of education which culminates ultimately on patient care. Angela has spoken at conferences nationally and internationally, whilst undertaking consultancies in Denmark and Australia.

Dr. Pao Ying Hsiao

Pao Ying Hsiao, PhD, RDN, LDN, is a registered dietitian and associate professor at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA. Dr. Hsiao’s educational background includes a PhD in Nutritional Sciences from The Pennsylvania State University. Her research interests focus on the use of innovative teaching strategies, including the use of technology and interprofessional simulation experiences to increase student engagement and learning. She also focuses on nutrition epidemiology, specifically dietary pattern analysis.

Dr. Richard Hsiao

Richard Hsiao, PhD, MBA, MS, is a professor in the Department of Kinesiology, Health and Sport Science, coordinator for the MS in Sport Management and the MS in Sport Studies, and director of the James G. Mill Center for Health and Fitness at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA. His research interests include sport psychology, sport leadership and globalization of sport business industry.

Dr John F. Hulpke

John F. Hulpke focuses on business and society issues. He has presented at many conferences (including Academy of Management), and written peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters. His articles and reviews have been published in journals such as Journal of Applied Management Studies, Social Responsibility Journal, Journal of Business Ethics Education, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of International Consumer Marketing, Public Administration Review, Journal of Innovation in Business and Economics, Journal of Small Business Management, The Chinese Economy, Journal of Management Inquiry, Journal of European Industrial Training, and the Journal of Applied Learning & Teaching.

Hulpke is interested in how business relates to society and how to teach in this area. Before returning to graduate school, he worked in the San Francisco Financial District, served as a Foreign Service Officer in the United States Department of State and as an officer in the United States Air Force. After receiving his PhD from Berkeley, he has taught in the United States, Mexico, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Nanjing, Singapore, Denmark, Sri Lanka, and Spain. He received “Best Ten Lecturers” awards twice at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He now (2020) teaches in the University College Dublin overseas programs.

Dr Ibtesam Hussein

Ibtesam Hussein, Ph.D., has an earned doctorate in Language, Literacy and Technology from Washington State University, and a Master's degree in TESOL from the University of Pennsylvania. She also holds a certificate in Teaching English as a Second Language for Business Communication from Penn CIBER Institute. Her scholarly interest focuses on the application of linguistics to language teaching as well the impact of L2 teachers’ classroom practices on second language learners’ academic success. Dr. Hussein can be reached at ihussein@uidaho.edu.

Allison Jane James

Allison has been a lecturer at the Australian Maritime College (AMC) for 25 years.  Her professional interests centre on innovative teaching strategies; competitive management of people and strategic management in networked industries. Her study and research interests have expanded to English language acquisition the impetus of which is the large diverse and international enrolment. Whilst at AMC, Allison lectured on the Pacific Patrol Boat programs.  In Papua New Guinea she delivered courses for the Papua New Guinea Defence Force.  She has also delivered courses in Fiji, Singapore and Malaysia. Allison’s research interests are currently focussed on innovative teaching practices and blended learning to prepare a work ready graduate.  This includes flipped teaching, the use of facilitated asynchronous discussion boards and backward course design. Allison’s professional interests and teaching strategies combine to focus on industry relevant knowledge creation and skills development to assist in the transition from University to professional life.   

Zerin Jannat 

Zerin Jannat obtained her MSc. in Economics from Stockholm University in 2019. Currently, she is a Research Officer at the Health Economics and Financing Unit of International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b). She has published research articles in international peer reviewed journals as an author and co-author. Her areas of research interest are microeconomics, macroeconomics, and health economics.

Dr. Carlos Francisco Bitencourt Jorge

Dr. Carlos Francisco Bitencourt Jorge is a researcher and professor at the Business and Management School of the Marília University (UNIMAR). He is also a researcher and professor at the Master of Law programs at UNIMAR-Brazil. He holds a Ph.D. in Information Science (Information Systems) from São Paulo State University (Unesp), School of Philosophy and Sciences, Marília, an MS, Information Science, from Unesp. He has published papers about knowledge management, knowledge network, information management, organizational intelligence and gamification in academic journals, and during his career. His professional background includes management consultant positions in many companies.

Kara Jung

Award-winning journalist, editor and columnist with more than 15 years experience in the South Australian media. Kara is a skilled writer, editor and manager with a strong background in print, digital and project management. She has worked as Political Reporter for The Advertiser, was Deputy Editor-in-chief for The Messenger group and is currently Digital Editor for The Messenger at advertiser.com.au.

Associate Professor Freddy R. Kaniki

My name is Freddy R. Kaniki, I am originally from the Democratic Republic of the Congo currently residing in the US since 2001. I am a graduate of the University of Colorado in Denver. I have two doctorates, one in Clinical Pharmacy and another in Public Health/Epidemiology and I currently work as the Director of the Postgraduate Pharmacy Residency Program through the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists. I am an Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Medicinal Chemistry.

Sophie Karanicolas

Sophie Karanicolas, is an Honorary Associate Professor in the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences at the University of Adelaide. She is a Principal Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy, Executive Director of PLUS 2 Consultancy and Vice President of Learning Innovations and International Relations, COMinG. Sophie has an honorary position as an Education Specialist with the University of Adelaide and had worked in academic development as the academic lead for the University of Adelaide’s ADEPT continuing professional development program. Sophie was the chief investigator of a 2014-2015 OLT funded national project grant in flipped learning encompassing students, academics and learning designers from over 15 universities across Australia and New Zealand, helping colleagues to translate the flipped classroom concept into effective classroom practice. Hon Associate Professor Karanicolas has been the recipient of many teaching awards, to include a 2018 International Flipped Learning Award from the Academy of Active Learning Arts and Sciences, a 2017 Stephen Cole the Elder Award for Excellence in providing Leadership, Support and Enhancement of Teaching Practice and Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning. In 2013 she was awarded an OLT National Teaching Award for Sustained Excellence in Teaching and the University of Adelaide’s Vice Chancellors and Presidents Award for Excellence in Teaching (2010), Stephen Cole the Elder Award for Excellence in Teaching (2010.)

Ms. P. Kavitha

Being passionate about teaching, I have started my professional career as faculty in a prestigious institute, BVRIT Hyderabad College of Engineering for Women, part of the Shri Vishnu Educational Society (SVES) group, from the inception of the college in 2012. In eight years of experience, I have gone through many phases of learning to evolve as successful faculty and mentor. I have been always enthusiastic to know and learn about emerging technologies.

Professor Mercy Kazima

Mercy Kazima is a Professor of Mathematics Education at the University of Malawi. Her work includes teaching mathematics and mathematics education, supervising postgraduate students, and leading research and development projects. Mercy has substantial experience in mathematics education research in the areas of mathematical knowledge for teaching, teaching and learning mathematics in multilingual classrooms, and mathematics teacher education and professional development. She was president of the Southern Africa Association for Research in Mathematics Science and Technology Education (SAARMSTE) and has contributed to research in mathematics education in Southern Africa and beyond. Mercy is currently a member of the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction (ICMI) executive committee 2021-2024. Research interests: Mathematical knowledge for teaching, mathematics teacher education and professional development, and teaching and learning mathematics in multilingual classrooms.

Laura Keaver

Laura Keaver, BSc, MPH, RD, is a Registered Dietitian and Lecturer in the Department of Health and Nutritional Science at the Institute of Technology Sligo, Ireland. Her research interests include investigating the health behaviors of higher education students as well as the use of nutrition to prevent and manage chronic disease.

Dr Margarita Kefalaki

Margarita is the founder and current President of the Communication Institute of Greece (COMinG), the Regional Vice-President of the European Network for Economic Cooperation and Development (EUCED) EEIG, for Greece, and a visiting Professor at the Hellenic Open University. The Communication Institute of Greece (http://coming.gr/) aims to promote collaboration and exchange among academics, researchers and professionals from all around the world, through the organization of international events.

Margarita holds a Ph.D. in Cultural Communication, a Professional Master degree in Communication and Cultural Development and two Bachelor degrees, one in Cultural Communication and Organization of Events from Vauban University in Nimes (Montpellier III) and another in Business Management from a Greek university. She has taught in several universities in Greece and France, and has published widely in academic and policy journals. She teaches intercultural communication and management in the Master degree programme of Cultural Organizations Management of the Hellenic Open University. Her research focuses on media, culture and international communication.

Dr Jo-Anne Kelder

Jo-Anne Kelder is currently Senior Lecturer, Curriculum Innovation and Development with the University’s Academic Division. She has been responsible for several operational and strategic projects for quality assurance of curriculum and enhancing student experience, as well as research to develop staff capability and practice in curriculum evaluation and scholarship. She has been recognised for contributions to teaching and learning with three University of Tasmania team and program teaching awards (2014), and individual Vice Chancellor's citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning (2017). Nationally, she was involved in the ALTC LTAS-Science (2010-11) and OLT AgLTAS (2012-15) projects and led the OLT extension-PATS project (2014-15). With her colleague Associate Professor Tina Acuna, she was awarded the inaugural Joint Fellowship by the Australian Council of Deans of Science (2019).

Alison Kelly

Alison Kelly is an Associate Professor in Microbiology at Kingston University and Course Leader for the undergraduate degree BSc (Hons) Biological Sciences. A Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, she has experience of researching in higher education, investigating academic issues including student engagement, collaboration and educational quality as well as maintaining a strong research interest in her scientific area. 

Associate Professor Nenagh Kemp

Nenagh Kemp is an Associate Professor in the School of Psychological Sciences at the University of Tasmania, Australia. Her research focuses on the acquisition, development and use of spoken and written language, from infancy to adulthood, and she has a particular interest in the written language of digital communication. More generally, she is interested in children’s cognitive development, and in the ways that digital technology can be harnessed to enhance undergraduate learning. Nenagh Kemp is currently Co-Editor-in-Chief editor for the Journal of Research in Reading and a member of the editorial board for Scientific Studies of Reading. She teaches Lifespan Developmental Psychology and Psychology of Language.

Trixie Kemp

Trixie Kemp is a PhD Candidate with RMIT University and a Health Information Manager with over 25 years’ experience working within hospital and community health settings.  Trixie is an advocate for continuous learning and currently researching the contribution health information management makes to patient safety. Trixie’s areas of expertise and interest include health information management, health informatics, eHealth, information governance, and patient safety.

Umar Raza Khan

Umar Raza Khan is master mariner and is working as an associate lecturer in the department of Maritime Operation and Coastal seafaring at Australian Maritime College. Umar has worked in international and Australian shipping industry. More than five years, he is teaching in Australian Maritime College. Apart from Master Mariner study, Umar has done Bachelor of Business Maritime and Logistic Management. Working in the shipping industry for more than two decades, Umar realised that there is a lack of critical thinking in the seafarers. So, as an educator, he focused his research on teaching pedagogy which can create critical thinking and research habits in the seafarers. His personal pursuits include book reading and gardening.

Dr. Eunice Kimunai

Eunice Kimunai, PhD, MPH, RN has close to 20 years of work experience as a nurse and a public health professional. Dr. Kimunai serves in various capacities in her current position as a Healthcare Subject Matter Expert at the Research and Development Directorate of the Defense Health Agency/Department of Defense. In this role, she supports the advancement of collaborative, innovative medical research and development to improve military community health and save lives on and off the battlefield. Dr. Kimunai has completed research work pertaining to HIV/AIDS, tobacco use/cigarette smoking, refugee health, maternal and child health, and other chronic conditions such as diabetes and congestive heart failure, which has been published in both domestic and international peer-reviewed journals within the fields of nursing and public health. She has presented her research work in many scientific conferences – both locally and internationally. In addition to her research work, she has extensive experience working and teaching global health issues in both the United States and in Africa.

Dr Omona Kizito

Dr Omona Kizito is a Medical Doctor and Lecturer in the Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS) of Uganda Martyrs University, Kampala. He holds a PhD in Mgt [Healthcare Mgt], Master of Science in Health Services Mgt (MSc. HSM), Master of Science in Monitoring and Evaluation (MSc. M & E), Post Graduate Diploma in Project Planning and Mgt (PGD PPM), Post Graduate Certificate in Project Monitoring and Evaluation (PGC M & E), and Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBChB) degree from Gulu University. He is currently engaged in teaching Public Health and Health Services Management at graduate and post-graduate levels, research supervision in the said areas and levels as well as community engagement. His major research areas are: teaching and learning in higher education institutions, clinical research, public health research and maternal and child health.

Mr Ssuka Jonathan Kizito

Mr Ssuka Jonathan Kizito is a practicing social worker and a public health practitioner, currently working with VODA-Uganda (a civil society organization) as project officer. He serves as a National Trainer on adolescent health under the Ministry of Health. He is also the Head of Department, Health and Environmental Sciences, at Institute of Social Work and Community Development, Mengo, and a lecturer at Team University in the Department of Humanities. For more than ten years, he taught in several secondary schools as a licensed teacher. Ssuka holds a Master Degree in Public Health – Health promotion (MPH-HP) of Uganda Martyrs University, a Bachelor degree in Social Work and Social Administration (BSWASA) from Muteesa I Royal University and a Diploma in Social Development of Institute of Social Work and Community Development.

Maxwell Graham Knight

Since 1982, Mr Max Knight has been a K-12 teacher, school administrator, education and training manager, and education adviser. Max was a teacher and school principal in the Tasmanian state school system for ten years before moving overseas to Papua New Guinea, China and Saudi Arabia to take up a variety of teaching, administration and curriculum design roles. Since repatriating to Tasmania in 2005, Max has managed education & training at the state's Risdon Prison, taught English to migrants and refugees and, since 2015, has been the Education Adviser for Recruit Training Services at the Tasmania Police Academy. He has particular interests in adult learning theories and teaching strategies, and in how feedback from adult students to teachers and instructors can best be shaped and harnessed to facilitate the continuous improvement of teaching. He holds a Master of Education, Graduate Diploma in Educational Administration, and Graduate Diploma in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL).

Matthew Knox

Mr Matthew Knox is a researcher of social sciences at the University of Tasmania, developing his knowledge through research in fields of behavioural, organizational and social psychology, as well as sociology and anthropology. Matthew is looking to consolidate his growing list of publications into his project on wellbeing during COVID-19. In a world fuelled by constructed images of the self, Matthew looks to investigate the impact authentic relationships have on the wellbeing of those suffering from the consequences of emotional labour. In doing so he looks to understand how to improve the world through understanding the people in it.

Dr Jessica Kong 

Dr Jessica Kong obtained her PhD in Media and Communications at the London School of Economics (LSE). Her research explores the communicative power of sound in social movements. Besides this, Dr Kong is passionate in Higher Education. She holds the position of Study Adviser at LSE LIFE, offering one-to-one academic and pastoral support to undergraduate and master’s students. Aside from general academic support, Dr Kong is an experienced teacher within the Social Science discipline. She was involved in teaching courses such as Social Psychology, Global Politics of Protest and Change, Mediated Activism and Dissertation Study Skills in Communication. Outside the academic setting, Dr Kong is an active pianist, who delivers concerts in care homes, hospitals, and a variety of community settings in London.  

Afroditi-Maria Koulaxi

Afroditi-Maria Koulaxi is an ESRC PhD Researcher in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She holds an MSc in Media and Communications (Governance) from LSE and a BA in Politics and International Relations from the University of Kent. Her doctoral thesis explores the role of mediation in embodied encounters with Others for the construction of Greek citizen identity in the context of crisis. She is an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and an Associate Study Adviser at LSE LIFE. She is currently a Research Assistant for the LSE Mobile Citizenship, States of Exception and (non)Border Regimes in post-Covid19 Cyprus project and has worked for the LSE Resilient Communities, Resilient Cities? Digital Cities of Refuge and the Migration and the Media projects. 

Dr. James Kwan

James is currently an Assistant Professor with Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and an adjunct lecturer at Nanyang Business School, NTU, where he teaches accounting and finance related modules at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. His research interest includes students’ approaches to learning, blended learning and application of positive psychology at workplace and in higher education.

 He holds a Bachelor of Accountancy degree from NTU, four master degrees in business administration, investment and finance, digital education and business research, and a PhD in Accounting and Finance. He is a Fellow Chartered Accountant of Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants, a Fellow CPA of CPA Australia, and an ASEAN Chartered Professional Accountant. 

Dr Kyriaki Koukouraki

Dr Kyriaki Koukouraki is currently teaching English for Academic Purposes at King’s College London. She was awarded a PhD from the Johannes-Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany for Intercultural Relations. Prior to moving to the UK she taught Translation (Greek, German and English), Socio-linguistics and Pragmatics at two universities in Greece. Her research interests include interdisciplinary approaches to language teaching and teacher training, internationalisation (including aspects of students transitioning to a new country), intercultural communication and global citizenship. Dr Koukouraki’s teaching philosophy is based on creating safe spaces for students to develop to their full potential, with major emphasis on fostering critical thinking and mutual respect for diversity.

Dr. Chang-Chi Lai

Chang-Chi Lai, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Sports and Health Sciences at  University of Taipei. Her research interests include sports science, cardiology, health management and health aging.

Dr. Sin-Manw (Sophia) Lam

Sophia is currently Senior Lecturer in the Department of Chinese Language Studies at The Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK). She received her Master degree from the University of Edinburgh and completed her Ph.D. in University College London, Institute of Education. Prior to joining EdUHK, Sophia worked as a secondary school teacher for ten years and had been an examiner for the Hong Kong Examination and Assessment Authority. Her research revolves around Second Language Acquisition (SLA), language teacher education and research methods. In particular, she is interested in language learning motivation and pedagogies to promote students’ motivation in learning first and second language.

Kenny Leck

Kenny Leck is the founder and co-owner of BooksActually, a bookstore based in Tiong Bahru. He also manages Math Paper Press, the publishing wing of BooksActually, which publishes a wide variety of literature, poetry, and other writings from Singapore.

Chris Lee

Chris Lee is a graphic designer and educator based in Lenapehoking (Brooklyn, NY), where he is an Assistant Professor at the Pratt Institute in the Undergraduate Communications Design Department. He is a graduate of OCADU (Tkaronto) and the Sandberg Instituut (Amsterdam), and has worked for The Walrus Magazine, Metahaven and Bruce Mau Design. He was the designer and an editorial board member of the journal Scapegoat: Architecture/Landscape/Political Economy. Chris’ primary research explores graphic design’s entanglement with power and standards through the document. He has contributed projects and writing to Amalgam, Neshan, Decolonising Design, the Journal of Aesthetics & Protest, Graphic, Volume, and Counter Signals and has lectured and given workshops in the USA, Canada, Scotland, Germany, The Netherlands and Croatia. He has exhibited his own research-based design work internationally and as part of the working group Collective Question. He was a Graphic Design Research Fellow of Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam (2017/18), and a participant of the fifth edition of the Summer University of the Bibliotheque Kandinsky at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, and his work is in the permanent collection of SFMOMA.

Dr. HeeSoon Lee

HeeSoon Lee, PhD, MSW, is an Associate Professor in the Social Work Program within the Department of Human Services at Bowling Green State University, USA. Her research interests include stress and coping, quality of life, and emotional eating in ethnically diverse cross-cultural older adults.

Dr Kim Lehman

Dr Kim Lehman is currently the Discipline Leader (Marketing) in the Tasmanian School of Business and Economics at the University of Tasmania. His research interests focus on the arts and cultural sectors. He leads a number of research projects as part of this focus and has been published in the Journal of Business Research, the Journal of Marketing Management, and Annals of Tourism Research. Dr Lehman is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Liverpool Business School, Liverpool John Moores University, UK.

Dr Willmann Liang

Dr Willmann Liang obtained his BSc(Hon) (in Pharmacology and Therapeutics) and PhD (in Cardiovascular Pharmacology) degrees from the University of British Columbia in Canada.  He proceeded to receive a Postgraduate Diploma in Higher Education from the National Institute of Education in Singapore, while teaching pharmacology and other subjects at Nanyang Technological University. 

Dr Liang presently serves as Lecturer at CUHK and is primarily responsible for teaching pharmacology and physiology.  He has also broadened his teaching interests to disciplines such as Drug Design and Development and Health Services Management.    

Since joining CUHK, Dr Liang has developed a variety of pharmacology learning materials to improve the learning experiences of biomedical sciences, medical and pharmacy students.  Over the years, Dr Liang has published and received honours in the areas of pharmacology and biomedical sciences education.  He also holds an adjunct position for teaching a summer pharmacology course at Tunghai University in Taiwan.  He was admitted as a Chartered Biologist (CBiol) in 2014 and a Fellow of the Academy of Pharmacology Educators (FAPE) in 2021. 

Associate Professor Ling Luo

Dr. Ling Luo is an Associate Professor in Modern Languages Department of the City University of New York (BMCC).  She came to New York and became a fellow researcher at the East Asian Institute of Columbia University. Her research interests include comparative cultures, Chinese cultural history and language acquisition using technologies. She has published over 40 research papers, books and book chapters. Her book Modernization of Nanjing City was considered one of the most important books in Chinese urban history and it has been widely cited. The book was collected by many libraries, including Harvard University library, Columbia University Library, Stanford University Library and Congress Library. Dr. Luo is the recipient of a number of research awards, including PSC-CUNY Research Award, the Innovation Language Education Award from Graduate Center of CUNY, the Faculty Development Grant and the Collaborative Pedagogical Research Grant in CUNY.

Dr Justina Longwe

Justina Longwe is a mathematics teacher educator at Machinga Teachers’ Training College, and currently a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Malawi. Her research interest is in pre-service mathematics teacher education with a special focus on the teaching of mathematics in early years of primary school. She recently completed her doctoral studies with the University of Malawi where she explored the area of pre-service mathematics teacher education in relation to how mathematics teacher educators help pre-service primary school teachers to learn to teach mathematics to early years learners. Research interests: Mathematics teacher education for primary school and teaching mathematics in multilingual contexts.

Dr. Mary-Jon Ludy

Mary-Jon Ludy, PhD, RDN, FAND, is an Associate Professor in the Food and Nutrition Program as well as Chair of the Department of Public and Allied Health and at Bowling Green State University, USA. Her research interests include energy balance, body composition, and innovative teaching. 

Dr Leo Chen Huei

Dr Leo joined Singapore University of Technology & Design (SUTD) as a Faculty Fellow under the Singapore Teaching and Academic Research Talent Scheme in 2017. Prior to joining SUTD, Dr Leo was a research fellow in the University of Melbourne (2012-2016), where he did research in biomedical sciences. As a research only academic in the University of Melbourne, he develops his passion in teaching and education through providing research training to postgraduate students. Currently, as a teaching and research faculty in SUTD, Dr Leo together with his colleague, Dr Bina Rai, continue to design and adopt better tools and technology (virtual laboratories and simulations) to enhance students’ learning experience and outcomes in undergraduate courses.

Zoe Leonard

Zoe Leonard worked as a research assistant for the College of Health and Human Sciences while in the process of obtaining a Master’s of Public Administration with a focus on public policy analysis. She is also a graduate of Marshall University with a Bachelor of Science in Exercise Science. She currently works for the YMCA of Central Ohio as a case manager in the Domestic Violence Rapid Rehousing Program located in Columbus, Ohio. 

Jianjun Li

Jianjun Li holds a Bachelor of English Language and Literature from Heilongjiang University (Harbin, China), a Master of Foreign Linguistics and Applied Linguistics from Dalian Maritime University (Dalian, China) and a Master of Research (Applied Linguistics) from Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia).

Jianjun Li is currently a lecturer at Northeast Agricultural University (China). He is an active researcher and he has published several journal articles and books. He also leads several provincial research grants. His research interests include applied linguistics, second language acquisition, and educational psychology.

Qing Li

Having graduated from Hunan University of Science and Technology in China, I became a voluntary Mandarin teacher in Thailand for around ten months, where I was awarded Excellent Voluntary Mandarin Teacher. I then came to the UK to teach Mandarin at secondary schools in Kent and London between 2013 and 2017. Since then I completed a Master degree, with Distinction, in Applied Linguistics and currently studying for a Ph.D. at University College London, Institute of Education in the department of Culture, Communication and Media. My research topic is about British secondary students’ motivation and vision in Mandarin learning.

Dr Lim Chin Guan 

Lim Chin Guan is an adjunct/associate lecturer and trainer in Kaplan Higher Education Singapore, PSB Academy, BCA Academy, Nanyang Polytechnic and SMF Centre for Corporate Training since 1999. He obtained his Master of Engineering (Engineering Technology Management) from the University of South Australia and a Bachelor of Mechanical and Production Engineering from the National University of Singapore. He also is an ACTA-certified corporate trainer. 

Chin Guan has delivered undergraduate and postgraduate modules in the areas of Engineering, Business and Management for Coventry University (UK), University of Newcastle (AUS), RMIT University (AUS), Murdoch University (AUS) the University of South Australia (AUS), and the University of Wollongong (AUS). In his teaching, Chin Guan combines his extensive lecturing experience with his entrepreneurial background and professional industry expertise. Before working as a lecturer, he had been an accomplished engineering professional with years of R&D experience in product/process design and development. 

Chin Guan was awarded a Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) from the University of Northampton (UK) in July 2022. His interest fields are Lean Thinking, Lean Six Sigma, Lean Analytics, Engineering Business Management, Operation Management, and Academic Processes for Higher Education. He won the People Choice's votes for Images of Research Competition 2021.

Juliana Lim

Juliana Lim worked as a public servant with government agencies including the Singapore Arts Centre Company Limited (now Esplanade Company). Her work in 1980/90s was highly integral into developing government policy around the arts and an economy turning increasingly towards creativity as a key part of its workings.

Dr Weiliang Lim

Weiliang Lim is a retired IT business owner who found his second wind in academia. He is currently an associate lecturer with Republic Polytechnic (RP) and SIMGE for RMIT. He lectures on IT related subjects in RP and Operations Management in SIMGE for RMIT.

He obtained his Doctor of Education degree from UWA, an MBA from Cranfield University and his Bachelor of Engineering from the National University of Singapore.

His research topic for his doctorate is “Predictors and Correlates of Readiness for Problem-Based Learning in Singapore Polytechnic Courses.” He was awarded the prize for the best piece of research by a transnational or international student in the Doctor of Education.

Dr Lydia Lymperis 

Dr Lydia Lymperis works as an analyst in the area of home affairs and social policy at RAND Europe, Cambridge. Her primary research interests concern education policy and reform, with a particular focus on equitable and effective uses of educational technology for addressing exclusion and supporting disadvantaged learners, inequalities in access to and participation in learning, and cross-sectoral policies for reaching the marginalised. Her PhD thesis explored deep learning in hybrid learning environments in small rural primary schools in Greece which suffer from a lack of teachers and adequate government investment. Prior to starting her PhD at Newcastle University, Lydia worked in educational settings for over ten years as a teacher, teacher trainer, curriculum developer and researcher. She has broad international experience, having held teaching and management roles in the UK, Greece, Spain, Italy, and Australia as well as in sub-Saharan Africa. Lydia is serving as an associate editor of the Journal of Applied Learning & Teaching.

Dr. Thathsara D. Maddumapatabandi

Dr. Thathsara D. Maddumapatabandi received BSc. degree with honours in Chemistry from University of Colombo, Sri Lanka in 2013 and earned PhD in Physical Chemistry from Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of South Carolina, USA in 2019. She is a Senior Lecturer at Sri Lanka Technological Campus (SLTC), Sri Lanka. Her research interests lie in the field of surface science, nanoparticle/material preparation and characterization and catalysis.

Dr Paola A. Magni

Dr Paola A. Magni is a Senior Lecturer in Forensic Science at Murdoch University (Perth, WA) and the Deputy Dean at Murdoch University Singapore. Paola is a forensic biologist with a key focus on the application of natural sciences (entomology, taphonomy and aquatic biology) to crime scene investigation. She has several years of experience as a lecturer, researcher and expert witness in the Court of Law on cases of homicide, suspicious death, animal cruelty/wildlife, food forensic and stored products security. She is the co-author of several books, book chapters and peer reviewed articles focused on her research and case-work.

She is the creator of “SmartInsects – Forensic Entomology”, the smartphone App designed to facilitate the work of law enforcement agencies and pathologists at crime scenes, and “VirtualCSI”, the Virtual Reality training suite for forensic science students and law enforcement. In the last few years, Paola has also undertaken research into the pedagogy behind innovative methods in forensic education, with a special focus in the internationalization of the Forensic Science curricula. Example of this are the successful projects for the New Colombo Mobility Plans and the Endeavour Leadership Program founded by the Australian Government. Deeply interested in science communication and advocate for women in STEM, Paola is the Australian winner of the global science communication competition FameLab, TEDx speaker, WiTWA Role Model and she has been nominated as one of the 100 people who will influence Western Australia in the biggest way in 2020.

Greer Maine

Greer is a Research Assistant with the Centre for Rural Health. She currently works as a Speech Pathologist in private practice. Greer developed a strong interest in Interprofessional practice via her work in multidisciplinary teams in the disability sector and she continues to support recent graduates to develop the skills and knowledge to work collaboratively with other professions.

Dr Casey Peter Mainsbridge

Dr Casey Mainsbridge completed a Bachelor of Human Movement Studies in 1999 and has worked at the University of Tasmania in the School of Education since 2003. His passion for working in higher education has continued to develop, and over the past fifteen years he has taught in diverse education disciplines including health and physical activity, health and physical education pedagogy, community sport and recreation, motor learning, and exercise psychology. Casey completed a Bachelor of Education (In-service) with Honours in 2005, investigating pre-service teachers' and supervisors' perceptions of the quality of supervision in teacher education. In 2016, he completed a Doctor of Philosophy investigating the effect of a workplace intervention to reduce prolonged occupational sitting and increase non-purposeful movement in desk-based employees. Since 2017, Dr Mainsbridge has been the Director of Student Engagement in the School of Education. Casey also has over twenty years’ experience as a health and fitness professional.

Professor Bashar Malkawi

Bashar Malkawi works as Global Professor of Practice in Law at James E. Rogers College of Law, University of Arizona. He holds S.J.D from American University, Washington College of Law, and LLM in International Trade Law from University of Arizona. Prof. Malkawi previously taught at universities in Jordan, UAE, Italy, and United States. Prof. Malkawi is a prolific scholar, whose work covers a variety of subjects. He has written over 70 articles for law reviews and professional publications, which have appeared in such top-tier journals as Journal of World Trade, Harvard Negotiation Law Review, and American Journal of Comparative Law. Prof. Malkawi is also the author of numerous books and book chapters. In addition to law articles and academic books, his op-eds and other writings have appeared in the popular press in the U.S. and the Middle East. In addition to his scholarship, Prof. Malkawi frequently consults for a wide array of international organizations, governments, and multinational law firms.

I believe that as much as possible future professors should be in control and responsible for what they learn. Furthermore, I believe their accepting responsibility for learning does not occur in a vacuum. It also involves those with whom they work. I develop a sense of community in my classes. In the wake of the emergence of new methods for teaching and practice, higher education has entered a time of intense transformation that opens new possibilities for more hands-on, dynamic, and engaging type of teaching. Through a mixture of classroom lectures, case studies, simulations, and group projects, students will be given a competitive edge in the short-term application of relevant knowledge, which has long-term strategic value for their career.

José Luís Manjate

José Luís Manjate (MPH) holds a Bachelor degree in Teaching of Physical Education and Sports and holds a Master in Public Health. He currently works at the Maputo Provincial Directorate of Education as a head of department. He also serves in a leadership position in the Mozambican Football Federation and as Secretary-General of the Physical Education and Sports Association of Mozambique.

Annette Helen Marlow

Annette Marlow is an Associate Professor in the College of Health and Medicine, University of Tasmania, undertaking the role of Director of Professional Experience. Annette has a comprehensive understanding of what it means to be a student in any practice setting and is committed to ensuring that all students within health disciplines are afforded a supported and meaningful professional experience placement.  Annette's particular interest centres around learning and teaching in health care settings, and in particular the provision of support, guidance and mentorship to staff who undertake the role of supervising students in practice settings.

Hélio Rogério Martins

Hélio Rogério Martins (MPH) holds Bachelor and Master degrees in Public Health. Presently he is an Assistant Lecturer of Epidemiology and Public Health at Instituto Superior de Ciências de Saúde, Maputo, Mozambique. His research interests include sexual and reproductive health and training of the human health workforce.

Dr Carey Ann Mather 

Dr Carey Mather is a senior lecturer in the School of Nursing and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She is currently the course coordinator of Honours (Research) where she supports students with academic progression and teaches postgraduate students in health informatics and research subjects. She has been employed in the health sector for over 30 years in various capacities and settings including the acute, palliative, health promotion and community environments. Carey’s learning and teaching research interests include student engagement and eportfolios, lecture capture and discussion boards. She has been involved in national and international projects related to clinical simulation, student understanding of social media, pressure injury and domestic violence. Carey also researches health informatics and its nexus with work integrated learning. This work includes exploring the use of emerging and mobile technology and digital literacy in healthcare environments. 

Ana Paula Xavier Matusse

Ana Paula Xavier Matusse (Med) is an educator with a Master degree in Curricular and Instructional Development, working as a lecturer at Instituto Superior de Ciências de Saúde and   Digital Marketing Consultant. She is currently a PhD candidate in Educational Innovation at Universidade Católica de Moçambique.

Dr Amanda Shuford Mayeaux

Amanda Shuford Mayeaux, Ed.D., NBCT, is an assistant professor at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in Educational Foundations and Leadership. She has worked in the field of education for almost three decades from classroom to leadership positions at various levels. Amanda's research interests include teacher expertise, experiences of rural gifted students and families, reducing organizational barriers to student success, policy construction, and comprehensive training for emerging leaders. She has been a National Board of Professional Teacher Standards certified teacher since 2001. In 2003 she was named a Milken Family Educator and was the Disney Teacher of the Year and Disney Middle School Teacher of the Year in 2006. She is the co-author of several publications, including Expertise in every classroom. Since joining the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, she has worked with aspiring school leaders in the graduate program, as well as sharing her teacher expertise with emerging teacher candidates in the undergraduate program. She enjoys traveling with her family.

Dr Kim McLeod

Dr Kim McLeod is a Lecturer in Sociology in the School of Social Sciences, University of Tasmania, Australia. Kim is known for her expertise in philosophically-informed, multi-disciplinary, and arts-based health research. Much of Kim’s work explores the social change that contributes to health equity and population-level wellbeing. Kim’s approach to understanding health as an ongoing process of change is presented in her single-authored book Wellbeing Machine: How Health Emerges from the Assemblages of Everyday Life (Carolina Academic Press, 2017).

Moyosola (Kemi) Medu

Moyosola (Kemi) Medu received her Ph.D. in international affairs from the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs (NPSIA) at Carleton University in 2019. She is currently a fellow at NPSIA and works as a data analytics professional with a Canadian provincial government. Her research interests include development economics, international economic policy and economics of education.

Sandra Meiras

Sandra is a lecturer in the discipline of Management, HR and Law at Kaplan Business School. She held senior management positions in higher education including Director of Global Engagement at the University of Sydney, Faculty Manager, Faculty of Engineering, University of Technology Sydney and Academic Administrator, Institute for International Studies of the University of Technology, Sydney. She was also a visiting faculty member at the Monterey Institute for International Studies, Monterey, California teaching staff management in international contexts. She served as director in the Australia Latin America Business Council – ALABC, was a member of the NSW Government Multicultural Business Advisory Council, the Council on Australia Latin America Relations (COALAR) Education Action Group and a tertiary mentor with the Smith Family Mentoring Program. She is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. She provides advisory and consultancy services on international education projects on a freelance basis.

Dr Giovanni Merola

Giovanni has extensive research experience. After earning a PhD in Statistics in Canada, he worked for the National Statistical Offices in Italy and the UK. Thereafter he worked as a financial quantitative analyst in London, UK. His academic career includes working in Spain, Vietnam and now in China. He loves to teach and to experiment with innovative learning models for mathematical subjects. Giovanni is particularly interested in models applicable to transnational tertiary education.

Andrew Laurance Jephson McShane

Senior Constable McShane has served in the Australian Army for over 35 years in both full time and part-time roles that have included responsibilities within training and policy development. For the last 16 years, Senior Constable McShane has been a full-time police officer working in frontline positions until taking a position at the Tasmania Police Academy in 2014. Senior Constable McShane is responsible for training recruits and the ongoing development of serving officers. Senior Constable McShane is an advocate of lifelong learning, and he is a qualified tradesman. He holds a Diploma of Engineering, a Diploma of Frontline Management, an Associate Degree in Arts, a Bachelor’s Degree in Social Science and is currently studying a Graduate Certificate of Higher Education.

Arati Mhatre

Arati Mhatre works as Manager, Education Excellence with the Global Indian International School (GIIS) Singapore a K-12 group of schools with 23 campuses in 7 countries. She has worked in the field of education for over a decade and been instrumental in setting up the Education Excellence department at GIIS in 2008.

Arati received her Master’s in Education from Monash University and her Graduate Certificate in International Education (IB) from University of Melbourne, and is an ACTA certified Trainer in Singapore.

A lifelong learner with a passion for education, Arati’s work with organisations in the K-12 and Higher Education fields in Singapore as well as on a global level, have enabled a unique insight into the education management sector with particular emphasis on bringing improvement to teaching and learning processes.

Anna Mihaylov

Anna is currently the Academic Director for the Business and Finance Discipline at Kaplan Business School. She is in charge of managing the economics, finance and statistics faculties and developing the new Master of Business Analytics, a pioneering degree, which integrates data science techniques with business applications.

She has a Master of Applied Finance and a Bachelor in Commerce from the University of Adelaide and has worked in the banking and government sectors in Australia. She has also participated in ARC research grants concerned with real estate finance at the University of Adelaide resulting in a publication and industry reports. Her teaching experiences involve visiting lecturer and session staff appointments at the University of Adelaide, Flinders University, University of South Australia and Bradford College. After completing the TESOL IV certificate Anna also worked in the English Language Centre at the University of Adelaide to gain exposure to helping students develop academic and language skills.  In her time at Kaplan Business School she has been involved in designing and accrediting both the Bachelor of Business (Applied Finance) and Master of Business Analytics programs, and assisted in developing the Threshold Learning Standards for Finance for the Australian Business Deans Council.

As an academic leader in private higher education, she is actively engaged in promoting scholarship through facilitating a Community of Practice involving participants from Kaplan Business School, Kaplan Professional and Dublin Business School. This group showcases the latest developments and literature in the areas of finance, economics, data science, leaning science and student analytics by members of the Kaplan academic community.

She is a driver in connecting her discipline with analytics industry bodies through partnerships with the Institute of Analytics Professionals Australia as well as blockchain and data science companies and practitioners. She also encourages outreach into industry by creating workshops for the Finance Treasury Association in the finance discipline. In economics, she engages in the latest developments through recently interviewing Stephanie Kelton, Chief Economic Advisor to Bernie Sanders, at the Sustainable Prosperity Conference and Economics Society of Australia events. She is a passionate believer in the ongoing collaboration between higher education and industry to create learning experiences for students which are real-world and forward-looking.

Dr. Nobuaki Minato

Dr. Nobuaki Minato is currently a professor at Graduate School of Technology Management, Ritsumeikan University, Japan. He holds MBA degree in aerospace management from Ecole Superieure de Commece de Toulouse and Ph.D. in Systems Engineering from Keio University. He has been involved in space project management at Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and in aircraft marketing at Avion de Transport Reginal in France. He has been received several international prizes; the French Aeronautics and Space Industry Award from Groupement des industries françaises aéronautiques et spatiales (GIFAS), France, in 2006, the Best Paper Award from International Forum on Shipping, Ports and Airports (IFSPA) in 2015 and the Academic Society Award from Japan Association for Management Science (JAMS) in 2016. He was a visiting researcher at National University of Singapore (NUS) from 2019 to 2020. 

Dr Mohamed Fadhil

Dr Mohamed Fadhil is a multi-faceted professional with many years of experience in research, higher education and the professional training industry. He has a Ph.D. in Education from the University of Adelaide and has undertaken research work with the Institute for Adult Learning Singapore and Kaplan Higher Education Singapore. His research interests are: adult education, organisational sensemaking, neuroscience and mental health, appreciative and wellbeing studies, human flourishing and restorative justice in education. He is a passionate educator and teaches qualitative research methods, positive psychology, principles of management and organizational behaviour at Kaplan Higher Education Singapore. At the same time, Mohamed Fadhil is involved in the professional training industry as an adult educator conducting programs in emotional intelligence, digital literacy and workplace communication. In the last 15 years, Mohamed Fadhil has successfully worked with both adults and youths of various nationalities and backgrounds in his teaching and research career.

Pamela Moore

Pamela Moore, has been teaching a variety of TESOL classes for close to thirty years starting with AMES, now AMEP (Australian Migrant Education Service/Program), in the early 1980’s, and then with TAFE (Technical and Further Education). The writer had been trained as a Librarian and Archivist before moving into teaching English and Humanities in secondary schools in Malaysia, Singapore and Australia. In the late 1980’s she became a fulltime teacher with NSW TAFE teaching TESOL, Adult literacy, English, Humanities and Communication. The writer also taught English for Further Study in China with TAFE International in 2007: 150 students, a blackboard and a box of chalk.

Dr Robyn Moore

Dr Robyn Moore is a social researcher at the University of Tasmania, Australia. Robyn’s research focuses on examining the enduring nature of race and gender-based inequalities. She is engaged in a range of research projects examining constructions of Australianness in Australian history textbooks, the experiences of women of colour in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and Medicine (STEMM) and girls in action sports.

Associate Professor Masaki Mori

Masaki Mori is Associate Professor and currently Interim Head of the Department of Comparative Literature and Intercultural Studies and Director of Asian Language Programs at the University of Georgia in the southeastern state of Georgia, the United States of America. He has publications on a number of literary topics, including the epic tradition, Asian-American literature, and modern Japanese writers like Murakami Haruki and Kawabata Yasunari, as well as pedagogic interests in foreign language education. He got his B.A. and M.A. degrees in English from Tohoku University and a Ph.D. degree in Comparative Literature from the Pennsylvania State University.

Renee Morrison 

Renee Morrison is a lecturer in the School of Education at Australian Catholic University. She has previously worked at University of Tasmania, Griffith University and at The University of Southern Queensland in various roles relating to initial teacher education.  For 14 years Renee taught in Australia and internationally as a high school teacher.  

Dr. Salome K. Mshigeni

Salome K. Mshigeni, PhD, MPH, MPA, is an Assistant Professor and the Master Public Health Program Director in the Department of Health Science and Human Ecology at California State University in San Bernardino, California, USA. As a trained Epidemiologist, she has over 10 years’ experience working in Hospital settings and 8 years’ experience of teaching in higher education. Her research interest is in disease prevention, tobacco prevention, and improvement of higher education among diverse groups of individuals.

Hilda Mulrooney

Hilda Mulrooney is an Associate Professor in Nutrition, having previously held dietetic posts within the NHS in public health, primary & secondary care. She has worked in higher education for over 20 years, and has a strong interest in developing co-curricular opportunities for students, which allow them to apply their learning and gain experience while at university. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Sandra Lea Murray

Sandra is an accredited practicing dietitian and has been teaching food, nutrition and public health for 15 years within the School of Health Science. She is undertaking doctoral studies focussing food justice and improve access for vulnerable communities to healthy food. She is also an active member of the university’s sustainability community.   Sandra is committed to authentic learning, through interprofessional learning and providing her students with opportunities for real-world experience whenever opportunities arise throughout her students undergraduate studies.  With the increasing transition to the flexible delivering of content for online learners, Sandra is committed to discovering and implementing innovative ways for students to engage in their curriculum and to create vibrant online communities among their student peers.  

Dr. Maurice Mutisya

Mutisya is an Associate Research Scientist at the African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC).  Mutisya research focuses on access to quality education for marginalized populations including the urban poor, right from early years of development.