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Assistant Professor at Hong Kong Polytechnic University specializing in positive youth development , co-production and multicultural promotion
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Dr. Song is Vice President for Student Affairs, Professor in Health & Mental Health Welfare, Sustainable Development Fellow, and Faculty Director of the Ban Ki-moon Center for International Cooperation at Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea where he is in charge of SDGs education. His research areas include social aspects of health and mental health, sustainability, and transdisciplinary research methods.
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Dr Maxwell Ho is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Education Policy and Leadership at the University. Dr Ho has been invited to hold school leader training programmes for primary and secondary schools in Hong Kong. He was awarded the 2021 Emerald Young Researcher Award, in recognition of his contribution to research and practice, as well as its impact on Hong Kong’s schools.
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Dr. YANG Lan (Joy) is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Curriculum and Instruction athe Education University of Hong Kong. She obtained her Ph. from The University of Hong Kong and her doctoral dissertation on a longitudinal intervention on promoting Chinese students’ academic self-concept and academic achievement was awarded the "Highly Commended Dissertation Award" by the Global SELF Research Network (2013); selection panel was chaired by Prof. Herbert Marsh (Top 1% Highly-Cited Researcher in the Social Sciences and one of the most productive educational psychologists in the world)
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Professor & Director, Center for Hunger-Free Communities - Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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I am a PhD researcher at the Centre of Development Studies, University of Cambridge interested in questions of power and governance. I research humanitarian praxis, meaning-making processes, and politics of assistance and asylum-seeking. More broadly, my interests lie at the intersection of participatory research, social innovation, and inclusive social development.
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Associate Professor in Social Work. My area of interest is gender based violence and a social justice approach to community based organizational practice.
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Liviu Matei is a professor of higher education and public policy, and head of the School of Education, Communication and Society at King's College London. He taught at universities in Europe and the U.S., consulted extensively in higher education policy, and conducted applied policy research projects for international intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, national authorities and universities from Europe and Asia. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the American University of Central Asia, and founder of the Global Observatory on Academic Freedom.
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Weiyu ZHANG is the founder and director of the Civic Tech Lab. She is also an Associate Professor at the Department of Communication and New Media, National University of Singapore. She's also a Principal Investigator at the NUS Centre for Trusted Internet and Community.
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Dr Debbie Ling is a compassion and common humanity researcher, educator and lecturer at Monash University, Australia. She is a leader in the compassion training field and developed the award winning "Compassion Training for Healthcare Workers" short online course. Over three thousand people have completed the course. It is compulsory curriculum in two medical degrees. Debbie collaborated with researchers at RAND Corporation and Stellenbosch University to pilot compassion training on health workers in HIV clinics in South Africa to support staff and improve patient retention.