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Senior Digital Learning Designer for Durham Centre for Academic Development (DCAD), United Kingdom
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Sandra Abegglen is Researcher at the University of Calgary (Canada).
Her research interests are in digital education, academic literacies, peer mentoring, creative learning and teaching methods, inclusion, visual narratives, identity, and qualitative methods.
She has written about her research and teaching practice in a variety of journals. She has also published three books and several book chapters.
Sandra has a background in education, social science, social work and nursing enabling her to work multi- and inter-disciplinary.
She has been awarded the Team Teaching Award 2020 by the University of Calgary, Canada.
She is a certified practitioner in learning development by the Association for Learning Development in Higher Education (UK); a Higher Education Academy (UK) fellow; a Scientific Committee Member for the International Conference on Mentoring in Teacher education and Professional Training ICM; a Board member for the International Conference on Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology ICEMST; and a Steering Committee member of the Teaching Academy, Taylor Institute for Learning and Teaching, University of Calgary.
Twitter: @sandra_abegglen
Personal Website: https://sandra-abegglen.com/
Website: https://taloncloud.ca
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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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I'm a communication expert with more than 20 years of experience in the UN, INGO, NGOs in Jordan and abroad. Currently, I work for UNOPS operational hub in Amman as communication specialist.
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Edward Venn is Professor of Music at the University of Leeds. Between 2016 and 2019, he served as Director of Student Education for the School of Music and Digital Education Academic Lead for the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures at Leeds. While in this roles, he co-ordinated and embedded a range of student engagement activities within various levels of the university structure, and co- authored publications on student engagement and academic literacies. He is currently a Fellow of the Leeds Institute for Teaching Excellence, researching student belonging and digital pedagogies.
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UN Program Officer at OutRight International
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Senior Lecturer (Academic) in Adult Nursing. Bournemouth University. UK.
Postgraduate Research Student exploring the use of Open Education Resources by Registered Nurses, at Bournemouth University, UK.
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I am an associate Professor of Economics.