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Senior Lecturer and Researcher in Public Policy and Management- innovation, sustainable local and economic development
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I’m a PhD student in Health Services Research at Brown University. My professional aim is to use a mixed methods research approach to improve social conditions by identifying synergies between health care and social services. I'm passionate about amplifying community voices, promoting equity, and advancing health care systems.
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As a PhD student at the University of Stirling, I am studying citizen science and the impact that it can have on the environmental citizenship capabilities of secondary school pupils in the UK. I am interested in improving the quality of environmental education in school and more widely considering our relationship with the natural world.
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Tracey Price is a qualitative researcher based at the University of Stirling, Scotland. Research expertise in policing, prosecution and public health interventions for people who use drugs. Tracey works collaboratively as part of a substance use research team whose work focuses on substance use, homelessness and the impact of structural inequalities. Alongside her research background, Tracey also holds a position where she provides consultancy and evaluation concerning therapeutic approaches to providing care for young people who have experienced relationship breakdown, loss and complex trauma.
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I am a Research Fellow at the University of Stirling (Scotland) and trainee Psychotherapist. A Socio-Cultural Psychologist, I specialise in gender, organisations, mental health, child development and identities. I use a variety of qualitative methods in my research and draw on dialogical theories.
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I work on disaster interventions and humanitarian aid in different countries, and with different types of disasters. I head the Disaster Interventions and Humanitarian Aid programme at the University of Stirling, in Stirling, Scotland, the UK. I am a sociologist and social/community work practitioner and keen to meet up with others sharing these interests in policy, practice and research.
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Enza Lissandrello is an Associate Professor at Aalborg University with a background in urban planning and public policy, human geography and socio-technical transition studies. Her work examines urban and regional planning under contemporary trends of reflexive modernization, participation, deliberation, conflicts and issues of representation. She has taught and published on the roles of the planners and policy actors in planning with sustainable aims and though deliberative forms. She has led various empirical projects on cross-border governance in Italy, France and Switzerland (the Mont-Blanc area), the planning of sustainable transitions in The Netherlands (Amsterdam and Waterdunen) and on the role of planners as catalysts of change in Scandinavian countries (Denmark, Norway and Sweden). She has also engaged in research on gamification as a mediation strategy between citizens and policy managers in several EU cities (Amsterdam, Ghent, Helsinki, Fundao, Palermo, Barcelona) for the transformation of urban mobility values. Her main research interests are on the practice and the theory of planning, urban governance and participation, deliberation and power, performative studies, sustainable transitions, interpretive methods of policy analysis and planning, critical approaches to smart citizenships and urban living labs.
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Edtech specialist
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Mrs. Samatova is a psychologist, gestalt therapist, coach, writer, columnist and full member of the All-Russian Professional Psychotherapeutic League.
Mrs. Samatova co-founded one of the first private shools in Russia. The cycle of her interdisciplinary research "School for Parents" has been repeatedly recognized as the winner of the All-Russian competitions of educational and methodological developments. For her active educational and social activities, she was awarded the title of Honored Educator of the Russian Federation.
Mrs. Samatova's motto: "If a family, then happy!"
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I am a sociologist, writing and teaching in the broad areas of Global Inequality, Neoliberalism's impact on Human Society and Culture, Diaspora and Transnational Issues in North America, Gender and Caste Based Inequalities, and Postcolonial Societies and Cultures. I have more than twelve years of experience in academic research and teaching. Prior to joining academia, I spent five years working as an applied social researcher in different parts of South Asia, namely India and Bangladesh.