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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.
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International Development gradute student at Paris School for International Affairs, SciencesPo
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Cansu Ekmekcioglu is a researcher and consultant who is currently pursuing a doctoral degree in information science at University of Toronto. With a background in political science and digital media, her work leverages data responsibility, inclusive policy, and community engagement approaches to improve humanitarian outcomes.
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Dr. Nour El Houda Chaoui is a Professor of Computer Science at Sidi Mohamed Ben Abedellah University (USMBA), in National School of Engineers (ENSAF) – Fez – Morocco. She is Country Director in Morocco of the International Higher Education Teaching and Learning Association-NY-USA (in consultative status with the United Nations). She is a former Professor of Computer Science at Ibn Zohr University in National School of Engineers (ENSA)- Agadir-Morocco. Dr. Chaoui teaches courses in Business Intelligence, Database administration, education and leadership. She is affiliated to the Artificial Intelligence, Data Sciences, and Emerging Systems Laboratory. Her current research interests include machine and deep learning, and big data analytics.
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Dr. Brian Moss is a Lecturer in Criminology. He has over fifteen years' industry experience in policy formulation and research in the areas of socio-economic and policing issues, collaborating with agencies in the British Isles and the EU on these topics. Dr. Moss has lectured at universities in Ireland and the UK on policing and its oversight, crime and technology, terrorism, penology, police pluralisation, and research methods. His research has been published in academic, practitioner and public-facing publications. He has also acted as a reviewer for three peer-review journals.
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UNIVERSITY LECTURER and DIRECTOR of a firm
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Dr Anita Lavorgna is Associate Professor at the University of Bologna (Italy), after spending several years in the UK (University of Southampton). Anita has an international research track record on and demonstrable expertise in interdisciplinary research drawing together criminology, socio-legal studies, and web/computer science. She has worked extensively on cybercrime and serious and organised crime.
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Maria Berghs is an anthropologist with a PhD in sociology and social policy. She works in the field of medical anthropology and sociology, specialising in disability studies. Her research interests include disability, global health (sickle cell), humanitarianism, ethics, gender and West Africa (Sierra Leone).
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Professor in Public Policy
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Dr. M. Evren Tok is Associate Professor and Assistant Dean for Innovation and Community Advancement, Program Coordinator for Islam and Global Affairs Program at College of Islamic Studies, Hamad Bin Khalifa University. He is the co-editor of Policy Making in a Transformative State: The Case of Qatar, published by Palgrave MacMillan, 2016. His recent publications “Global Governance and Muslim Organizations” published by Palgrave MacMillan and Innovating South-South Cooperation by University of Ottawa Press in 2020. He is the director of a QNRF funded cluster (2020-2025) entitled “SDG Education and Global Citizenship in Qatar”. He is the Lead Project Investigator for Qatar National Research Fund Priority Program for 3 years on “Localizing Entrepreneurship Education in Qatar”. He is the founder of the maker space entitled Maker Majlis: Islam in a Global World, which received Qatar Sustainability Award under Best University Initiative in 2020.