Katarina is a Gender Equality Expert at Malmö City Council, Sweden.

Anders is a Gender Equality Expert at Malmö City Council, Sweden.

Chantal Mrimi is an author, public speaker and civil servant, bachelor in Administration Management by Abertay University, and bachelor in Politics, Philosophy and Economics by the Open University, both in Scotland. Chantal’s work experience includes working with statistics in UNHCR in order to manage and deliver on refugee’s needs, and over 400 hours of interpreting work in Swahili and Lingala for Congolese refugees in Glasgow, between 2004 and 2007. Chantal has more than 18 years of experience in developing philanthropic and charity work, and she is the founder of the Rwanda Outreach Project, and of a Sponsorship Program whereby Scottish families sponsor bright children from poor background to go to school. So far, 39 children have been educated at secondary level and 6 graduated. In 2018, she was awarded ‘Scottish Woman of the Year’ for her philanthropic work, with subsequent congratulatory motion at the Scottish Parliament.

Chantal is also a public and motivational speaker, as well as an experienced essayist and poet, and published her autobiography ‘The journey of my life from Rwanda’ in 2007.

I’m Pinky, a women’s life and business coach. I work with women across the UK and globe. I’ll help you create your killer mindset that dismiss your inner critic and puts you on the right track for professional and personal success.

Lynn Shaw is a dance artist, choreographer and mental health and arts advocate who has recently completed her MEd in Learning and Teaching in the Performing Arts (Dance), at The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. During her studies Lynn founded Dancing Along the Borderline which is an organisation that aims is to raise awareness and educate others on Borderline Personality Disorder using dance, film and other art forms as the vehicle. Lynn co-created the documentary “Borderline” which explores her own experiences of BPD through the medium of dance and a series of interviews. The film has toured internationally at film festivals and used as a resource in the NHS to help other with difficulties around the condition.

Camila Cavalcante is a visual artist from the north-east coast of Brazil, currently settled in the UK. With a background in journalism, she has a varied interest in investigating the conceptual, sentimental and social perception of art. Through the use of documentary photography, her work creates a place in which the idea of ‘private’ and ‘public’ overlap and complement each other. Camila holds a Masters degree in Photojournalism from the University of Westminster and was awarded two photography national prizes in her home country. She has taken part in over 30 exhibitions and three art residencies in Brazil, the US, Mexico and the UK. Camila currently works for the London School of Photography.

 Artist and Writer; BA; MSc; Diploma of Museum Studies; Associate of the Museums Association.

Vicki White is best known as the author Victoria Hendry. Shortlisted for prizes including the Society of Women Writers and Journalists’ International Life Writing Prize 2012, Historical Writers’ Association Debut Crown 2014, and Alan Warner’s Scotsman Book of the Year, she is also an artist, art historian and Associate of the Museums Association.

See her publisher Saraband.net

Cassandra Harrison is an Artist and Art Educator living and working in Edinburgh, UK.  She graduated with honours in Fine Art and Art Education and has been working in education and the Creative Industries for nearly 20 years.  Her work features in The Edinburgh Art Book (2019). She has exhibited her work at The Royal Scottish Academy and has had worked commissioned by DECIEM, small businesses and private clients.

Her passion for bringing art making and Art History to the masses is evident in her work in schools – both primary and secondary – as well as in workshops for families and adults. 

“Art is for everyone, not just a select few,” was the inspiration behind her recently launched business Crash Course in Art History Art Parties for Grownups.  Understanding art can be perceived as something unattainable, something that only an educated elite can achieve. “This was a sad realisation as art should be for everyone. We can connect with the stories, the images, the colours, the feelings. It connects us to the past, to the present, to other cultures, to each other, to ourselves”. Cassandra wants to bring art to everybody, no matter our background or education.

Each party is split into two sessions:  Learning and Doing.  During the second half of the session, each person has the opportunity to create their own artwork. It has been proven that creating art gives us time to connect with ourselves, meditate, relieve stress and enhance concentration. 

www.cassandraharrison.co.uk

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Mhairi Bell-Moodie is a Scottish portrait and documentary photographer.  Her work focuses on telling the stories of those who society has marginalised, oppressed or stereotyped, meaning that she is particularly interested in working with women, people of colour, the LGBTQ+ community and others who are often neglected or misrepresented in the media.  Her series Nevertheless, She Persisted gained the attention of national press, was shortlisted for the Royal Photographic Society’s 161st IPE (International Photography Exhibition), included in the RSA (Royal Scottish Academy) Open 2018 and Portrait Salon 2018, as well as being exhibited in both Edinburgh and London as solo shows. 

Francesca is an International Lawyer specializing in international criminal law and human rights. She is also an International Consultant for NGOs in Southeast Asia in the areas of international criminal law, gender, migration, and labour law. She holds a Law Degree and two LLMs in International Law (United Nations 2016, Fordham University School of Law 2018). In 2019, she starts a PhD in International law (Middlesex University London).

In the last two years, she has taken part as a speaker in over 15 conferences and roundtables talking about gender issues and international law in the United States, Asia and Europe.

Ebru Eren is a final year PhD researcher in the School of Education, Trinity College Dublin. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Foreign Language Teaching from Hacettepe University in 2007 and a master’s degree in Women’s Studies from Istanbul University in 2016. She worked as a teacher in various public secondary schools for 10 years in Turkey. Her research interest includes feminist theory, Queer theory, feminist philosophy of science, higher education and critical pedagogy.

Sandra Soler Campo holds a PhD in Music Pedagogy, a bachelor’s degree in Musicology as well as a degree in Music and English pedagogy. She has completed her training as a specialist in the Kodály method of music education in Budapest and earned a master degree in Applied Research in Feminism, Gender and Citizenship studies at the University Jaume I (Castellón). She currently combines her teaching and research work at the University of Barcelona (UB), the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) and the Université Paris 8.

Daniel Patricio is a Lawyer (Bar Association of Madrid)
Doctor in Law.Executive MBA(.IE). and PADE.( IESE).
Has had responsibilities as a Human Resources Director in Multinational Companies and Public Sector (Healthcare)
Specialist in Labor Relations and Human Resources

Senior Professor at ESIC BUSINESS SCHOOL.
Research Projects: Gender equality & Digital workplace

Ishrat Khan is a third-year PhD at International Development and currently working on “Economic Empowerment and Women Sexual Agency: The Shifting Terrain among Middle-Class Muslims in Dhaka”. She received the Commonwealth Scholarship in 2017 to pursue her doctoral research at Sussex.

Before commencing her PhD, Ishrat did her PGD in Gender Studies from the University of Hull, and later joined the Department of Gender Studies in the University of Dhaka from where she graduated first. She also contributed to multiple research related to gender and development funded/supported by Promundo US (Mencare Project), NWO-WOTRO (Dutch Govt funded SRHR research), UNDP, WHO, CMMS (Centre for Men and Masculinities Studies).

Chipo Hungwe is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and the current Executive Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Midlands State University in Gweru, Zimbabwe. She has published on gender struggles in Zimbawe, ageing and migration.

Sigal Oppenhaim- Shachar received her Ph.D. in The Gender studies program from Bar -Ilan University, an M.A. from Bar Ilan University, and from Lesly College, and a B.A. from Tel Aviv University.

The Gender Studies Program; The Sociology and Anthropology Department; School of Education- Bar-Ilan University

School of Education- Ono Academic College.

Her lecture and writing topics centre on three main themes – girlhood studies, leadership, and facilitation of group and team processes. Within the feminist discourse framework, through the intersectionality lens.

Her research interests include myriad experiential and pedagogic expressions of education, mainly but not exclusively, through the Intersectionality lens, were published in Academic Journals in England and the U.S.A, and Israel.

A book She wrote about intervention from a feminist perspective in the life of at-risk girls was published lately in Hebrew, by Mofet institute Tel Aviv- We were counting on you: A second look at an intervention for girls from stigmatized communities. (2019) 

In 2010 She initiated the “Daphna Center” – A professional development and training centre established by the Bar-Ilan University Gender Studies Program and managed the centre in the years 2010-2015.

Dr Maria Célia Mundim is a psychology freelance academic writer and has been involved in researching with female talent since 2011. She held a post-doctoral research position at the Department of Psychology, Pontifical Catholic University of Campinas, Brazil. She is currently collaborating with the research group Psychological Evaluation of Human Potential at the same institution and with the research group Critical Thought at Salamanca University (Spain). She also collaborates with researchers from the University of Minho (Portugal). Her publications entail themes about women, creativity and talent, which can be seen at https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Maria_Mundim2.She is also a founding member of the Brazilian Association of Creativity and Innovation.

Dr. Viktorija Car is Associate Professor at the University of Zagreb, Croatia, at the Faculty of Political Science – Media and Communication Department. She teaches Public Service Mediaand Media Text Research Methods at MA level, and Media Policy and Media Regulation,Visual Cultureand Photojournalismat BA level. She is a Research Fellow of the Social Science Research Center at Mississippi State University, USA.

In the focus of her scientific research are public service media, visual culture and visual media, media narratives, digital activism, media and gender studies, media and human rights, media and minority studies. She was the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Media Studiesjournal (2010-2017; www.mediastudies.fpzg.hr), and a founding Chief-Coordinator of regional conference Media Accountability(2010-2018). She was member of the HRT Program Council (Croatian public service radio-television, 2011-2012). She was a MC memberof the COST Action IS0906: Transforming Audiences, Transforming Societies: „New challenges and methodological innovations in European media audience research“ (2010-2014). She worked as a journalist and a screen-writer for the Croatian Public Service Television Hrvatska televizija(HTV, 1998-2002), at the Education Program; she was general manager of the Croatian Association of Fine Artists (HDLU, 2003-2004).

Her bibliography is available on https://unizg.academia.edu/ViktorijaCar

and on http://bib.irb.hr/lista-radova?autor=277195

Contact: Faculty of Political Science, Lepušićeva 6, 10 000 Zagreb, CROATIA

e-mail: viktorija.car@fpzg.hr

Nehaya is a PhD candidate: Alternative National Education in the Private Bilingual Schools for Palestinian Arab Students Who Are Citizens of the State of Israel

Education faculty:  Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland

Barbara Ravbar is Video Specialist at Telegram Media Group in Zagreb, Croatia. She graduated Journalism (MA) at the Faculty of Political Science of the University of Zagreb, Croatia. Since 2017 she has been working for two commercial media outlets in Croatia – Index.hr and Telegram.hr. During her MA thesis research, she focused on an analysis of media coverage of the Istanbul Convention in the context of reporting on women’s rights. Her main interests are media and gender studies, human rights and minority studies. While studying journalism she participated in The Balkan Bridges project, which gathered young journalists from Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro, Slovenia and Albania in collaboration with colleagues from The Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication from Phoenix, Arizona. Project focused on covering stories about the refugee crisis in the Balkans and refugee issues on the American – Mexican border during the presidential elections in 2016. She was a journalist at the student newspaper Global,student assistant and video journalist at Television Student and radio host at Radio Student’s show Studomatwhich covers student-related issues. She won 2nd prize for a multimedia project about Syrian refugee at the festival On the Record, and Special Rector’s prize for her work in Global. She completed several courses and workshops: Summer school of Information Technologies and the Media, Visual Storytelling workshop, Young Journalists Summer School – Challenges of Independent Community Journalism, different documentary and video workshops.

Anxhela Filaj is a first-year PhD student at the University of Debrecen, Hungary, attending the Doctoral School of Literary and Cultural Studies (Department of British Studies), working on film studies, film adaptations of rape, body studies, and graphic representations of sexual violence. 

Yvette Basson is a lecturer at the Law Faculty of the University of the Western Cape in Cape Town, South Africa. She does research and publishes on disability and related issues. Her doctorate was awarded to her in 2015 and her dissertation focused on the international law obligation to provide social protection and an adequate standard of living to persons with disabilities.

Chay Brown is a PhD Scholar from Alice Springs in Australia’s Northern Territory. She has been researching violence against women for six years.  She completed her Master’s research on the impact of the Northern Territory Emergency Response on violence against women in Alice Springs’ Town Camps. She has now extended that research to look at Indigenous-led projects and interventions designed to prevent violence against women. As part of this research, she recently produced a Northern Territory specific framework of principles of good practice to prevent violence against women, coupled with context-specific indicators to guide program design, delivery, and practice.

Chay has a background in International Development and Education. She has previously worked in safe houses as part of anti-trafficking programs in South East Asia as well as been involved in projects in HIV testing and counselling, micro-finance income-generating projects and teaching colleges. She has previously worked in East Timor, Uganda, U.K., Thailand and China.

Ray Barron-Woolford  is a multi-award-winning social entrepreneur and is a life long community activist, broadcaster, playwright and author of several books including Food Bank Britain about his experience establishing the UK  largest  Independent Food Bank.  A book that changed the way ALL food banks operate today, in the process of raising funds he established the Deptford Heritage Festival. When he came across the name of community activist Kath Duncan, which became a labour of love over 5 years researching this Scots women’s inspired life, leading to his play about Kath’s role in establishing National Council Civil Liberties. #Liberty a London Stage hit in Feb 2019 as part global LGBT history month & Deptford Heritage Festival & his new highly acclaimed biography of Kath Duncan The Last Queen of Scotland, presently optioned by Netflix which argues the case that Kath is the most important UK Civil Rights leader the past 100 years and why we must do more to celebrate the life, struggle & work of working-class heroes, especially Women. Ray continues to campaign to raise awareness of Kath’s importance on the global stage to get her restored as a National treasure, whilst continuing her work as the CEO of the new global Kath Duncan Equality and Civil Rights Network.

Nazia Bashir has a Masters in English literature from Punjab University Lahore, and works as an executive director of the civil society organisation “Hunergah” which aim is to help and support the women of the rural areas of Punjab and their welfare.

Sonali Mohapatra is a theoretical physicist who is currently working to translate applications of quantum theories onboard satellite missions. She is a polymath who is also a feminist, poet, writer, thinker and a disrupter. She is a gender strategist who specialises in connecting seemingly disparate ideas in highly non-intuitive and functional ways to construct effective strategies towards an equal, equitable and feminist world. She is author of the poetry collection, Leaking Ink,  ex-Athena Swan representative at the University of Sussex and the founder of the international queer/feminist digital literary magazine, Carved Voices which she runs along with her co-founder Shantashree Mohanty. As a queer/feminist motivational speaker, Sonali uses a combination of the scientific method along with storytelling, poetry and music to bring a spotlight to the issues close to her heart.

Alejandra Bueno is a member of the cultural association Guerrilla Kulturala and director and creator of the International Feminist Videoart Festival FEM TOUR TRUCK.

This artistic-political festival started in 2016, it’s held every two years and its main objective is the emancipation of the bodies and the subjectivities through artistic practice. The festival searchers for feminist work, searching visual proposals that show what the media don’t, sharing and standardizing the experiences and realities of the body and the most divergent thoughts of the feminist policies, women’s movements and LGBTQI+ collectives.

Each edition of the festival is a possibility for the transformation of society, and that’s why the festival is held in public open spaces, streets, squares or parks, freeing the art from its institutional framework.

The festival travels to different cities in different countries for a month, showing the selected audio-visual proposals, creating synergies with the audience through workshops, performances, and talks that open the possibility to speak about gender through art.

FEM TOUR TRUCK has been in Spain, Portugal, Scotland, France, Colombia, Mexico, U.S.A (Los Angeles) and Ecuador. The festival established a network of artists and cultural agents that share the same struggles and militances worldwide, using art and video-creation as a tool to promote women’s rights and the rights of different gender identities.

Sara Arroja-Schürmann is a PhD student at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. After the completion of a Bachelor degree in Hispanic literature and linguistics and English literature and linguistics, I continued my studies with a Master degree in Spanish literature (specialising in medieval literature and early modern literature). I am currently doing a PhD in Spanish literature focusing on themes such as Gender, Feminism and Otherness in the Spanish golden age period. These themes represent the main focus of my research broadened from medieval to early modern literature. The other (sexual, political, religious or social) and his/her situation embody the core of her research.

Chika Ebubechukwu is a Legal practitioner and a PhD Candidate in Global studies, Economy, Society and Law at the University of Urbino Carlo Bo, Italy. She holds a Master’s degree in Maritime and Commercial Law from the University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom and a Bachelor’s of Law from Igbinedion University, Edo, Nigeria. Her research focuses on the crimes committed at the sea and the exercise of jurisdiction and investigation. She had worked at the Legal Aid Council (Bayelsa, Nigeria) where all legal cases were done pro bono. She is a member of Academy of Law and Migration (Accademia di Diritto e Migrazioni – ADiM), Nigeria bar association and Nigerian Institute of Management.

Avwerosuoghene Hope Golah-Ebue is a PhD Candidate in Global Studies, Economy,Society and Law, at the University of Urbino “Carlo Bo”, Italy. She holds a master’s degree in Comparative Politics and Development Studies from the University of Benin, Nigeria. Her research project is focused on women, violence and cross border mobility. Her research areas are on Women, Gender Based Violence, Migration, Intersectionality and Security. Hope is a member of the University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES).

Jillian Heller is an intersectional feminist from Queens, New York who is passionate about creating and preserving accessible, feminist community spaces. Since moving to the UK, she has been cataloguing at the Feminist Library and researching the ways in which digitisation intersects and interferes with feminist public space in London. She also works front-of-house at the Vagina Museum in London, the world’s first-ever bricks and mortar museum space dedicated to gynaecological anatomy.

Dr. Haseena V.A.  is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, M.E.S Kalladi College, India. Her research focus on Environmental Economics, Gender Economics and Subaltern Studies. She received numerous awards for her work in education and is a member of the Editorial Board of Women and Gender studies, Cochin University of Science and Technology.

Agnieszka Świgost-Kapocsi is a geographer, PhD researcher at the Jagiellonian University (Krakow, Poland). In her research she focuses on gender approach in cities, mostly industrial, especially in the context of local development (women as the agents of change, leadership). Moreover, her research interest dealing with social participation and social dimension of urban revitalization.

Lucy Nicholas (they/them) is Associate professor Gender and Sexuality at Western Sydney University, Australia, specialising in gender and sexual diversities, social and political theory, queer theory, whiteness and feminisms. They have published two books, Queer Post-Gender Ethics in 2014, and The Persistence of Global Masculinisms (co-authored) in 2018. 

Recent publications:

‘Whiteness, Heteropaternalism, and the Gendered Politics of Settler Colonial Populist Backlash Culture in Australia’

Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society (2019)

‘Queer ethics and fostering positive mindsets toward non-binary gender, genderqueer, and gender ambiguity’

International Journal of Transgenderism (2019)

Saba Munawar has a master in English literature & education professional with extensive experience delivering a quality assistance to needy women with opportunities to enhance their living standards.

Laura Kudo, originally from Brazil, graduated from the Pontifical Catholic University of Sao Paulo, with a degree in English Language and Literature. She then earned an M.A. in Applied Linguistics from Macquarie University (Australia). She has been teaching English at Japanese universities for the past 35 years. She currently works at Muroran Institute of Technology in Hokkaido.

Merve Arslan, graduated from the Department of Philosophy with honor degree at Adnan Menderes University in Turkey, in 2010. After graduation, she worked as a teacher for a while.

Between 2016-2017, she studied her MA project at the University of Sussex on ‘Woman’s Freedom in Simone de Beauvoir and Maurice Merleau-Ponty’ which was supervised by Tanja Staehler. After receiving her MA degree, she started her PhD project in September 2017. Her research focuses on the role of unidentified bodies with regards to gender politics.

Merve is interested in Feminist Philosophy, 20^th century French Philosophy, Body Theories and Phenomenology, Gender Philosophy, Gender and Power Relations, Otherness and its social implications, and Disability. 

As a long-time activist for women’s rights, Hyejung Park  co-founded the Center for Women’s Right Sallim, a direct assistance organisation for women in prostitution, South Korea. Now as a master’s candidate at the women’s studies program of Seoul National University, Hyejung is doing a research on resurgent feminist movement in South Korea. 

Co-founded SWAN: Scottish Women’s Autism Network,in 2012, after completing her PhD research which focussed on the experiences of anxiety for Asperger girls. Catriona’s life-long commitment, as an advocate and organiser, to promoting the rights and needs of women and girls, has underpinned the development of SWAN.

SWAN has grown to run online peer-support forums, regular ‘meet-up’ groups across Scotland, including for ‘Young Swans’ aged 15-17, groundbreaking Learning Eventconferences and offers training and professional support across sectors.

Employed by Scottish Autism to develop the Right Click online resource for autistic women and girls, Scottish Government also funded Catriona’s initiative – to evidence the impact of peer mentoring – through a SWAN/Scottish Autism partnership. Modelled as a co-production and pilot study, the recently completed Under Our Wing programme was designed and led by autistic women.

Catriona was an ‘expert’ and advisor to the highly regarded 3 year National Autism Project and was an advisor to the Independent Review of the Mental Health Act, Scotland, competed Dec 2019.

She contributed to the collection of essays, “Spectrum Women” published by JKP in 2018which was listed by the Independent as their 2019 #1 Best Buy book on autism.

Catriona was named OBE in The Queen’s New Year Honours 2020.

Rachel Thain-Gray has worked in the field of cultural equalities for the past 20 years. Rachel is an AHRC-funded Doctoral Researcher in Feminist Museology at the University of Glasgow. 

She joined Glasgow Women’s Library in 2013 delivering creative, prejudice reduction projects including Mixing The Colours, In Her Shoes and Mainstreaming Sectarianism in the Equalities. She recently co-curated the Decoding Inequality exhibition, which explored the narratives of women’s inequality and cultural ownership. She co-led the sectoral change-making project Equality in Progress, which benchmarked GWL’s grassroots museum practice to address strategic needs in current sectoral approaches and is the co-editor of Equality in Progress: Research from a grassroots museum.

Laura Tomson is Co-Director of Zero Tolerance. Zero Tolerance is a Scottish charity working to end men’s violence against women by promoting gender equality and challenging attitudes which normalise violence and abuse.

Current Zero Tolerance work includes improving media coverage of VAW, gender equality and violence prevention in nurseries, schools and youth work, and increasing public awareness of ‘unseen’ forms of VAW. Laura previously worked for the Young Women’s Movement and the Scottish Government, alongside involvement in grassroots feminist activism.

(For more, please visit www.zerotolerance.org.uk)

Lea is a French – Brazilian filmmaker based in Scotland. While studying in Paris, she produced and directed films in Brazil, Scandinavia and Korea and used them as a way to engage debates around human rights and social issues in universities. Her first short “Until Sunrise” premiered at the International Sport Film Festival in Italy, in 2018. “I don’t want to call it Home” is her second short. She co-directed it with Nisan Yetkin. It was premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2018 and continued its festival career all around the world. Her documentary «Spit it out» was commissioned by BBC Scotland and talks about recovering from sexual trauma through spoken words and performances.

The Spit it Out project: The ‘Spit it Out’ Project is a series of screenings, exhibitions and inspiring talks about sex, consent and healing from trauma. In 2019, we made the documentary ‘Spit it Out’, which tells the story of rapper Bee Asha Singh as she realises her spoken words have the power to inspire her audience to open up about their experiences of sexual assault and mental health. ‘The Spit it Out’ Project will continue the momentum of the film, organising the events in Scotland and the UK; inviting artists who would like to share their work. We are hoping to start a conversation around topics that are too often taboo in our society. We want the next generation to be able to talk about sex, consent and mental health without shame!

Bee Asha Singh grew up between homes with her Punjabi Father and Scottish Mother. She is one third of the hip hop trio The Honey Farm, a Scottish female rap group that promote female confidence and egalitarian views. Bee is an incredible spoken word artist. She tackles social injustice, gender equality and talks about truth, openness and her own personal experiences with trauma. The young poet has done a lot of work related to using creative outlets to heal, working on the BBC documentary, Spit It out. She is also the ambassador of Youth Intercultural Scotland since 2019.

Aimara Reques is the founder of Aconite Productions, an innovative company based in Scotland dedicated to the production of high-quality creative documentaries that bring stories of global significance to the world stage. She has over 25 years of experience in the film industry in the UK and has collaborated with a number of renowned directors and producers from both the UK and abroad. She is a winner of two BAFTA Scotland Awards; a Fox Searchlight Award; an Amnesty International Media Award; and the Golden Star Award from El Gouna Film Festival; and she was nominated for the Grierson Award for Documentary at Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2005. Aimara was the leading producer of Victor Kossakovsky’s AQUARELA which premiered at Venice 2018, is being distributed in the US by Sony Pictures Classic and was shortlisted for the Oscars in 2020 . Other company credits include BRASILA: LIFE AFTER DESIGN by Bart Simpson, 15 IN GAZA by Rana Ayoub and Wesam Mousa and EVERYBODY’S CHILD by Garry Fraser.
Aimara completed basic medical training at the Faculty of Medicine of the ‘Universidad Central De Venezuela’, then went on to obtain a degree in Media and Film Studies at the same University. Aimara is passionate about health issues and the natural world and she studied Homoeopathy at The Scottish College of Homeopathy in Glasgow.

AbdulGafar Fahm is a Lecturer at the Department of Religions, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria. His research interests include Islam, Islamic thought, spirituality, and interactions of Islamic culture and contemporary society. The majority of his work focuses on how Islamic spiritual culture affects various aspects of modern Muslim.

Phd in Law, LLM in Law, Lawyer (Madrid Bar Association), LLM in Gender Studies, Ba in Tourism Management

Amalia Verdu has been teaching on gender and law in Finland at the University of Helsinki and University of Turku. Before becoming a lawyer, she worked in tourism where she experience the “women issues” motivating her to move into gender and law research.  She has been researching on gender, women and law.

Her main research focus on the concept of gender and the legal person. Now,  she is also researching on legal education and how to use sex and gender as triggers to teach critical thinking.

Efi Aharon is a PhD graduate from the ‘gender studies program’ in Bar-Ilan University. She teaches at Beitberl College and at Ankori high school. Instructs graduate students at the Open University

Her doctoral dissertation focused on the main themes typifying works of literary prose written by women who are daughters of immigrant mothers and were born in English-speaking countries from the 1970s to the present day. A discussion on prose written by daughters of immigrant mothers in the West (second-generation immigrants ) is grounded in three fields of theoretical discourse: (a) feminist literary discourse that addresses the characteristics of ‘women’s literature’ and focuses on women’s writing and reading mechanisms; (b) theoretical feminist-literary-psychoanalytical discourse that examines the identity of mothers in the literary and public space, the roles of mothers, and the relationships between mothers and daughters, and (c) discourse on modes of remembrance that discusses the characteristics of memory narratives in literary works.

Today she continues her research on memory narratives in literature works writing by immigration and their children. In addition to that, she focuses on literature works regarding the Israel-Palestinian conflict, especially women’s literature works.

Priyanka Verma is a final year PhD candidate and visiting lecturer at the University of Bedfordshire. Verma’s research interest lies in women’s representation and the women’s agency in Bollywood. This relates several substantive areas of the film industry, including discrimination, gender inequalities, intersectional studies and social cognitive theories. She also holds a master’s degree in Digital Film Productions.

Psychology undergraduate student at the University of Brasilia (UNB) in Brazil. Currently part of the E-Trabalho research group, a group coordinated by Dra Gardenia Abbad that focus on work design, with an emphasis on teleworking. Was also part of the research group Body, Aesthetics and Relationship, a group that studied affective pedagogies under a feminist view of gender relations. Was a volunteer researcher in 2018 in the “CHEGA MAIS” project of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), which sought to identify and improve public health service for teenagers. Interested in the study of gender diversity in the workplace and it’s impact.

Dr K. MANIMEKALAI, Professor and Head, Department Of Women’s Studies, Alagappa University, Karaikudi, Tamil Nadu. She worked as a Vice-Chancellor, Mother Teresa Women University, Kodaikanal, Tamil Nadu, former Registrar and former Dean of Alagappa university. She has 31 years of experience in teaching and research, training and extension programmes. She has produced a number of M.Phil and PhD candidates. She has published more than 55 publications as books, articles, and research reports. Her area of specialization is women empowerment, gender and development and prevention of gender-based violence. She has completed 15 research projects sponsored by National and International agencies. She has been bestowed with several honours and awards such as best Vice-Chancellor award for the year 2012-2013 by the Indian Red Cross Society and best teacher award, best student award, etc. she has presented many research papers in notation and international level and participated in several international programmes/ seminars/conference as chairperson of technical sessions, group leader, invited speaker and delegate.

Raquel Rosa is a psychotherapist and holds a masters degree in Social Psychology from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). Her master’s thesis was about the female workforce in Information Technology’s industries in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. She currently works as researcher collaborator in a researcher group coordinated by Prof. Dr Fernando Gastal from Federal University of Rio de Janeiro which focus on psychosocial studies and worker’s health. She has been studying themes about gender and work, female professionals in a male-dominated environment, gender inequality and Burnout.

Raquel has also a MBA in Managing and Leading People from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Her final project was about Burnout Syndrome in technology’s professionals.

She is interested in Women Studies; Women in the Workforce; Gender, Work and Culture.

International Relations professional with outstanding experience in women and gender studies, social projects, research and global development. Holds a Bachelor on International Relations from the Institute of Technology and Higher Education Campus Querétaro México; and Development Studies from L’école Supérieure de Commerce et Developpement in Lyon France. Currently working for the World Bank Group in the Dominican Republic, implementing a project on sustainability and domestic violence while being part of the operations and external relations departments. Samahara has worked for the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights for the Women’s Rights Rapporteurship in DC; collaborated for the Mexican government in the Women’s Institute of Querétaro and worked as a research assistant for Save the Children in the Dominican Republic in a project on Human Trafficking. 

Suheba Khan is presently working as an Assistant Professor (Contractual) at Advanced Centre for Women’s Studies, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh. India. She is also pursuing her Ph.D. at Advanced Centre for Women’s Studies and currently working on the topic “The Failed Feminism of Contemporary TV Advertisements in India”.

Before commencing her PhD, Suheba did her Post Graduation in Women’s Studies from the Aligarh Muslim University. She was awarded with Gold Medal for getting highest marks at Post Graduate level. In addition, she has qualified UGC-NET JRF (a national level competitive exam of eligibility for assistant professor at university level) in women’s studies.

After four years living in Edinburgh, Ana has recently finished her PhD in History of Art at Edinburgh University. During this time, she has been involved with different art projects related to the promotion of emerging artists, constantly questioning the role of the critic in Art History. Both in Edinburgh and in Spain, her homecountry, she has been involved in different activist groups focused on questions of migration (Migrant’s Pride), feminism (Feminism in Edinburgh) or political ones (CREE, Consejo de Residentes Españoles en el Extranjero).

Isabela Fernandes is a lawyer who, since graduation, works and specializes in gender issues, such as domestic violence and discriminatory legislation. She is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Human Rights and Citizenship at the University of Brasília where she develops, with the support of the Higher Education Personnel Coordination (CAPES), research on the challenges of implementing gender-related educational policies in Brazil.  

Dr. Arshad Khan Bangash is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology, Gender Studies and Education at Bacha Khan University Charsadda, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pakistan. He did his PhD from University of Peshawar under title “Sociological Analysis of Honour Killing in Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) of Pakistan”. In general, his area of research interest includes criminology and gender studies while in particular he is working on sectarian violence, violence against women and denial of female inheritance etc., with special emphasis on tribal society of Pakistan.

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I am a Mexican doctorate candidate at the Faculty of Law, University of Turku. I am working on an interdisciplinary research on femi(ni)cide in the European context. I obtained my Master’s degree in the Erasmus Mundus Master’s Program in Gender and Women’s Studies (GEMMA) at the University of Granada and the University of Utrecht. I completed my Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy at the Autonomous Metropolitan University in Mexico City.  

Miss Mantana Kweansungnern was born in Thailand. I successfully completed two degrees: Bachelor of Nursing Science and Master of Art in Social Psychology. At present I am a Ph.D. candidate in Development Education at Srinakharinwirot University. I work as a registered nurse at Phramongkutklao Hospital. My main interests are the women’s studies and neuroscience nursing.  

This is Eman Albalushi. I am from Sultanate of Oman. I am an English language lecturer, Ministry of Education. I have a bachelor degree in English language and Literature, SQU. I am interested in e-learning, linguistics and humanities. I have done a number of research on different fields and participated in conferences all around the world as I believe in sharing and exchanging experiences, thoughts and ideas with different cultures from different parts of the world. 

Aisha Umar Muhammad is a research assistant with the Department of European Languages, Federal University Birnin Kebbi, Nigeria. She is also a Ph. D student with the Department of English, University of Ilorin, Nigeria. She Specializes in African women’s studies, Northern Nigerian gender literature and Ecocriticism. 

Gabriela Márquez Rosales is a Chilean student with a BSSC in social work from the University of Chile. She has participated in different projects on feminism, particularly in its relation with social memory in the country where she lives. Also, she has worked for the last three years in gender thematic and currently participates in a research core on women’s indebtedness in Chile. 

I am a Senior Lecturer in the Psychology, Sociology & Education division at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh. My research and teaching interests focus on social inequalities within public education systems. I have extensive professional experience in the field of primary education, both in classroom practice and in senior management, and in 2016 published a study for the Scottish Parliament, ‘Closing the Attainment Gap’, on educational achievement and equity. As a practitioner-researcher, I believe there is an urgent need for teachers to employ education methods that effect justice-oriented social change.

My book Gypsy and Traveller Girls: Silence, Agency and Power (2019) critically explores and documents the racialised and gendered experiences of Gypsy and Traveller girls in Scotland, within public spaces of school and private spaces of home. As a South Asian and advocate of black feminist thought and methodology, my work also explores research into the multiple identities and experiences of young people and women on the margins from a postcolonial perspective.

Dr. Michal Hisherik is a lecturer in sociology and gender studies at the department of education, Beit Berl College, Israel. Her PhD dissertation for the Program for Gender Studies at Bar-Ilan University deals with violence toward women in the Ethiopian community in Israel. Her areas of specialization are the sociology of the family, violence against women, intervention programs and public policy to prevent violence among women.

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Iti Tyagi is a Certified Organizational Behaviour Strategist and award winning Leadership Mentor. She is currently designated as Software Designer for ICT Healthcare (Netherlands). Apart from her job, she pursues freelance research on various agendas such as Women Disability, Gender Bias, Pay Gaps etc. She is also actively involved in Social Media Strategy and Art awareness, and actively guides on various social platforms.

Victoria Kiasyo Isika is a PhD Sociology student at the University of Nottingham, United Kingdom. Her doctoral research focuses on women’s responses to heterosexual intimate partner violence (IPV) in Kenya. Prior to her PhD, she designed and managed large-scale qualitative and quantitative studies on gend​er-based violence and women’s empowerment in East and Central Africa. She has worked with leading organizations in this field including Innovations for Poverty Action, Busara Center for Behavioral Economics, the World Bank and Women for Women International. She currently serves as a member of the board of directors of Inua Kike (Women’s Rising) and on the advisory panel of Well Told Story. She holds an MA in Conflict, Security and Development from the University of Bradford, United Kingdom..

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Dr Muhammad Adil is an assistant Professor and Head of Department of Management Sciences, Bacha Khan University, Charsadda, Pakistan.

He is a member of Advanced Studies and Research Board (ASRB) at Bacha Khan University Charsadda, Pakistan and convener of Graduate Study Committee at this university.

Dr Adil is a researcher reviewer of Emerald Insight (Emerald Piblishing Limited), who organised and attended different workshops and conferences.

He got his PhD from Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan, Pakistan, and and MBA from Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK.

My name is Ifafoye Olajumoke Morayo, I hold a Bachelor’s Degree in Art History and International Studies, I have done several certification programmes in the humanitarian field.