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

Dr Skye Saunders is an Associate Professor in the School of Law at the University of New England. Skye also does work as  Special Counsel on Sex Discrimination matters, is an Honorary Associate Professor at the Australian National University College of Law and is the Vice President of the YWCA Canberra. Skye pioneered the first research in Australia on sexual harassment in rural workplaces which is contained in her book ‘Whispers from the Bush- The Workplace Sexual Harassment of Australian Rural Women.’ In 2017 the Victorian Women’s Trust produced a short documentary film called ‘Grace Under Fire’ which is based on Skye’s research on workplace sexual harassment in rural Australia. In both 2018 and 2019, Skye was a delegate to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW62 and CSW63) in New York with the YWCA Australia. Skye was also recently awarded the Chancellor’s Distinguished Young Alumni Award (University of Canberra). She is currently researching for her new book project, ‘Defying Gravity- Rising Above Sex Discrimination in the Workplace’. In her work, Skye strives to ignite the inherent empathy and perception in both men and women as a central part of her mission to disrupt sex discrimination in the workplace.

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 labor 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.

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.

Shecontributed 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.