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Filiz Polat is a Professor of Inclusive Education at Nazarbayev University, Graduate School of Education (NUGSE), Kazakhstan. Before joining NUGSE in August 2018, she held positions at the University of Manchester (UK); University of Bristol (UK); University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong SAR, China); and, Istanbul Medipol University (Turkey). Filiz started her career as a school psychological counselor in Ankara, Turkey. She received her first postgraduate degree (MSc) from Middle East Technical University (METU), Turkey which followed with degrees received from the University of Manchester (MEd & Ph.D.), Egland. She has been researching and teaching in the field of inclusive education for more than 20 years.
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I'm Professor of Politics at the University of Leeds, in the UK. I specialise on public engagement and parliament. I'm Co-Director of the Centre for Democratic Engagement.
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United Kingdom
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Jyoti RAHAMAN is currently a Project Manager/Project Lead, Education Innovation at the Education Department of the Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF). She leads the research & policy development of projects under the ASEF’s Teaching and Learning Programme. Launched in 1998, the project provides opportunities for collaborative learning and intercultural exchanges among secondary, high and vocational schools educators in 51 ASEM partner countries. Jyoti holds an Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree (EMJMD) on Education Policies for Global Development.
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I am a Chancellor's Fellow at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. I received my PhD from the European University Institute and have previously worked at the University of Pittsburgh, University of Warwick and Duke University. My research explores the process of policymaking in democracies and spans comparative political systems, executives, comparative and international political economy. In my book "Ideologues, Partisans and Loyalists" (Oxford University Press 2016), I investigate how politicians' own ideology and political clout matter for policy. My current projects investigate the relationship between political and economic inequality, the professionalization of politics, policy coordination and energy and health inequalities.
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Physician and researcher with an innate interest in mental health, disability inclusion and health systems.
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I am a Professor of African Philosophy. I teach philosophy, religion and cultural studies at Tansian University, Nigeria. I am a visiting Professor at the University of Jos, the Augustinian Institute and Saint Albert the Great Major Seminary. I am the Global President of the Association for the Promotion of African Studies.
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Australia
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Ph.D. student in social policy and researcher at Brandeis University and Tufts University
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Dr Pathik Pathak (FHEA, FRSA, Ph.D. Warwick) is currently Founding Director of the Social Impact Lab at the University of Southampton.
He is a passionate advocate for innovation in higher education and has pioneered challenge-based education to improve graduate employability and connect universities to social and environmental challenges. He is also a TEDx speaker and a World Economic Forum agenda shaper. He has written over 50 articles for The Guardian, The Conversation, The Times of India and The Hindustan Times.
His research and enterprise portfolio includes work on post-growth urban social innovation and social enterprise for health in low and middle-income countries. His work, in collaboration with many others, has been funded by the ESRC, Innovate UK, The British Council, UKIERI and the NIHR.
As Founding Director of the multi-award-winning Social Impact Lab, he leads the University’s international work on social entrepreneurship and web technologies for impact. In recent years its work has been recognised by the Guardian University Awards, the Ashoka-Cordes Awards, and the Unltd-HEFCE awards.
As a result of his work in higher education, he has been made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 2014 and was awarded the Mahatma Gandhi Pravasi Samann in 2015 for outstanding contributions to education. He was named one of the top 5 digital leaders by the Asians in Tech Award in 2016, was runner-up in the Sociological Review Prize for Outstanding Scholarship in 2016, was named a World Economic Forum agenda shaper in 2017 and was runner-up in the “Best in Education” category at the British Asian Awards in 2018.