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Dr Martina Emke coordinates a pool of experts in technology-enhanced teaching and learning in higher education, which is funded by the Ministry of Culture and Sciences of the federal state of North Rhine-Westfalia in Germany. As an Affiiliated Researcher at the Open University, UK, she has been involved in research projects focusing on online language teaching and language teacher professional development. Since 2008, she has been working in projects for the European Centre for Modern Languages, which seek to help language teachers improve their digital teaching skills.
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As a Lecturer in Data and Digital Literacies at Moray House School of Education and Sport (University of Edinburgh), I teach courses on Digital Literacy and Technologies in the postgraduate teacher education programme. I am also part of the Data Education in Schools project, whose mission is to educate teachers in South East Scotland about data literacy. My research interests include data and digital literacies, formative assessment and feedback, online learning, and adoption of teaching and learning technologies in primary, secondary and higher education contexts.
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After graduating from the University of Dundee in Scotland, Robert took up his first permanent role as a Software Engineer at BAE Systems (Military Aircraft Division), Warton, Lancashire, UK. This involved reverse engineering and programming / coding in multiple high and low-level languages to implement bespoke software for CAD / CAM systems.
He is currently a senior lecturer in Business and Management at the University of Roehampton Business School (Faculty of Business and Law) in London and an associate lecturer in Computing (Faculty of STEM) at The Open University.
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Professor Emeritus at the Sciences Po Law School Paris, former Head of the specialty: “Innovation Law” of the Master Law & Economics.
Doctor honoris causa of the University of Heidelberg. Visiting or associate professor or guest lecturer in around 40 countries.
Consultant to lawyers and companies in different countries, expert consultant to the French and international authorities, WIPO 'arbitrator' for domain names.
Main fields of specialization: Intellectual property / Patents / Trademarks / Copyright / New technologies / Computer law / Internet / Electronic commerce.
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Olivier Boiron is Professor in fluid mechanics at Centrale Marseille, a french public higher education institution specialized in engineering. He is, since 2014, the UNESCO Unitwin 651 chairholder for "Innovation for sustainable development".
As the executive director of the Mediterranean network of engineering schools and faculties (RMEI) he is involved in many programs and activities related to the quality of engineering education, student international mobility, student employability, sustainable development and more recently air quality in urban areas.
Prof Boiron is the head of the international Master's programme in Complex system engineering at Centrale Marseille.
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Holly Mayton currently serves as the American Institute of Physics Science & Technology Policy Fellow in the U.S. Department of State's Office of Agricultural Policy. Holly received her B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Virginia in 2014 and her Ph.D. in Chemical and Environmental Engineering with a Designated Emphasis in Public Policy from the University of California, Riverside in 2018. While at UCR, Holly founded the Science to Policy program, contributed to several California state advisory committees, and worked for the California Council on Science and Technology. Broadly, Holly is passionate about connecting food and water systems science to policy and advocacy outcomes. To that end, she received a Research and Innovation for Agriculture Fellowship to pursue food systems and data-driven policy research in Hanoi, Vietnam as a graduate student. Recently, Holly has served as founding co-Director of the National Science Policy Network and Coordinator for the inaugural Commonwealth of Virginia Engineering and Science Policy Fellowship.
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Rachel Kurian is (retired) International Labour Economist at the Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam. Her research, project and consultancy work deals with migration, human rights, poverty, gender, trade unions and social exclusion in the context of economic restructuring. She has initiated, acquired and led and participated in capacity-building projects in Asia, Africa and Europe, sponsored by key donors including DGIS, FNV, ICFTU, NUFFIC, African Development Bank, Justitia et Pax and the OECD). These projects have resulted in evaluations, professional reports, development of teaching curriculum for Universities and Civil Society Actors, Training of Ambassadors and Diplomats in The Hague. She has collaborated extensively and developed projects with the Municipality of The Hague for the last two decades, undertaken projects with DGIS and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and been a member of the Nationale Adviesraad voor Ontwikkelingssamenwerking. Her recent relevant publications include: “Politics of caste-based exclusion: Poverty Alleviation schemes in rural India (with Deepak Singh), in The Politics of Social Inclusion: Bridging Knowledge and Politics Towards Social Change Gabriele Koehler et al(eds), UNESCO, CROP and Ibidem, (2020:283-311); Academic Editor on Theme Inclusion through Enacted Citizenship in Urban Spaces and ‘Enacting Citizenship and the Right to the City: Towards Inclusion through Deepening Democracy?’ (with Helen Hintjens), ‘Enabling Social Inclusion and Urban Citizenship of Older Adults through eHealth: The iZi Project in the Hague’ (with N. Menke, S. Santokhi and E. Tak). Journal of Social Inclusion, Vol, No.4 (2019).
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I am Director of the Research Institute for Global Education at Coventry University, UK. My interests are in access and achievement of neurodivergent students and those with disabilities in education, higher education and employment.
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I am a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. I have 30 years experience in higher education supporting, developing, researching and tutoring digital learning. I currently teach and research entirely online with postgraduates who are mainly teachers from around the world. These students are scattered across 4 continents. I am an expert in digital skills and online learning with an interest in global teaching practice and global learning competencies.
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Urban planner, practitioner and professor.
Teaches “Transforming the Urban Economy” and “Arts, the Artist and Urban Revitalization” at the NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.
Chair-elect of the International Downtown Association (IDA) and the past co-chair of the NYC BID Association. President of the Times Square Alliance since 2002. Prior to joining the Alliance, he was the Founder and Director of Partnerships for Parks, which works to support New York City’s neighborhood parks and which won an Innovations in Government Award from the JFK School of Government at Harvard for its work to restore the Bronx River. He has also worked at New York City’s Economic Development Corporation, The New York City Charter Revision Commission, and was briefly the Nationals Editor at the Mexico City News, an English language newspaper in Mexico.