Associate Professor Department of Psychiatry, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa Marco Solmi, MD, psychiatrist, PhD, is Associate Professor and Director of Research, Department of Psychiatry, University of Ottawa, Canada, Medical Director of On Track First Episode Psychosis program and of the Eating Disorders program, The Ottawa Hospital, Scientist, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, Charité University Medicine Berlin, visiting academic at University of Southampton, School of psychology and King's College, IoPPN, Psychosis Department, UK, and affiliate at the Stanford University METRIC center. He is Chair of ECNP Physical And meNtal Health (PAN-Health) Thematic Working Group (TWG), and member of the others European and Canadian psychiatric associations. He is interested in meta-research and epidemiology, to study prevention/early interventions, psychopharmacology, and physical health in those with mental disorders. He authored over 420 publications in leading medical journals, is among top 0.1% Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers in Psychiatry and Psychology since 2021, and his work has been cited over 30,000 times.
Assistant Professor, Educational Technology & Design, University of Saskatchewan In 2013, Dr. Koole completed her PhD in E-Research and Technology-Enhanced Learning at Lancaster University UK. Her thesis is entitled “Identity Positioning of Doctoral Students in Networked Learning Environments”. She also holds a Masters of Education in Distance Education (MEd) through the Centre for Distance Education at Athabasca University. Her focus was on mobile learning. Dr. Koole has a BA in Modern Languages and has studied French, Spanish, German, Blackfoot, Cree, Latin, Mandarin, ancient Mayan hieroglyphics, and linguistics. Her interests in languages led her to teaching. She has taught English as a Second Language (ESL), English for Academic Purposes (EAP) and university-level writing at the University of Lethbridge, Athabasca University, private schools in Canada, and a private school in Spain. While teaching at the University of Lethbridge, Dr. Koole became interested in designing online educational resources. She completed a college diploma in Multimedia Production with training in web development, audio, video, animation, 3D animation, marketing, and business. Dr. Koole has worked in online and distance education for over 15 years. Through the years, she has been involved in teaching, instructional design, multimedia programming, content management, e-portfolios, and social software. She has designed interactive, online learning activities for various learning purposes and platforms—including print, web, and mobile devices. Areas of interest; Mobile learning Makerspaces Technology-enhanced learning Socio-materialism/new materialism Social constructionism Language revitalization
Lecturer, School of Product Design, University of Canterbury Mark Rickerby is founder of Fictiveworks. a design and technology lab working in the domains of interactive storytelling, creative collaboration, simulation and symbolic AI. He has more than 20 years experience delivering digital products, publishing projects, games and internal systems for high-growth startups, entrepreneurs, small businesses and government organisations in Wellington, Auckland, Berlin, Sydney and Christchurch.
StreeetSnap Research Associate, Swansea University I am currently working on the StreetSnap Project as Research Associate. This Project was funded by a SMART Partnership between Swansea University, Welsh Government and Bridgend County Borough Council. I work in the Department of Criminology within the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Swansea University. My qualifications are: BSc Social Science, MSc Social Science Research Methods, PhD Social Science - ‘Class, motherhood and mature studentship – (re-)constructing and (re)-negotiating subjectivity’. In addition to hate crime/hate visuals my research interests also centre around subjectivity, class, gender and marginalised communities. I am particularly interested in psychosocial and participatory perspectives in research.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of English, Dalhousie University Madison Trusolino is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of English at Dalhousie University. She holds a PhD from the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto. Madison researches the intersections of precarity, sexuality, and gender, with a specific emphasis on work and workers in the arts and culture industries. Her research can be found in Feminist Media Studies, The International Journal of Cultural Policy, and Communication and the Public.
Senior Lecturer in Law, Nottingham Trent University Megan is a Senior Lecturer at Nottingham Law School. She is a module leader and deputy course leader within the postgraduate portfolio. She teaches Civil Litigation and Skills on the LLM Legal Practice Course as well as on specialist practitioner courses providing experiential learning for litigation procedure and skills. Megan also works on the development of new courses that will be launched over the next year. Megan qualified as a Solicitor in September 2008. She specialised in Commercial Litigation and Professional Negligence and is now continuing to practice as a Solicitor as part of NLS Legal.
