Speakers
ALAN DAVEY CBE
BBC
Alan Davey CBE is Controller, BBC Radio 3, BBC Proms and BBC Orchestras and Choirs. He is BBC Sponsor for the East Bank project and Social Mobility Champion for the BBC. From 2008–2014, he was Chief Executive Officer at Arts Council England following an extensive Civil Service career, including Head of Arts Division and Director of Arts and Culture at the DCMS, secretary of the Royal Commission on Long Term Care, and Head of European Business at the Medicines Control Agency. In the 2015 New Year Honours, he was awarded a CBE for services to the Arts.
ALISTAIR SPALDING CBE
Sadler's Wells
Alistair Spalding has been Artistic Director and Chief Executive of Sadler’s Wells since 2004. Under his tenure, Sadler’s Wells has become a world-leading dance house that offers an ambitious programme of dance in all its forms and presents first-class UK and international artists and companies. The theatre welcomes audiences of over 500,000 in London and attracts touring audiences of over 130,000 each year.
DR ALLAN KILNER-JOHNSON
University of Surrey
Allan Kilner-Johnson is Associate Dean (Doctoral College) and Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Surrey, where his research focuses on modernism and contemplative studies. He is the author of Alan Hollinghurst and the Vitality of Influence (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), Masculine Identity in Modernist Literature (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), and the forthcoming The Sacred Life of Modernist Literature (Bloomsbury, 2021). In addition, he is an accredited mindfulness meditation teacher registered on the UK Mindfulness Teachers Register and a psychosynthesis coach.
AMANDA HOLIDAY
Techne Student (University of Brighton)
Artist and poet Amanda Holiday is Techne AHRC doctoral student in Poetry, Race and Art at the University of Brighton. Her chapbook 'The Art Poems' was published in April 2018 as part of New Generation African Poets (Tano). She completed the Creative Writing (Poetry MA) at UEA in 2019 and her writing has appeared in journals including Prairie Schooner (US), South Bank Poetry Magazine, Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal, and Frieze.
In 2020, she founded the UK's first crowdfunded poetry press Black Sunflowers Poetry Press and their first five poetry chapbooks were published earlier this year.
DR ANA CRISTINA SUZINA
Loughborough University London
Ana Cristina Suzina is specialist in communication for social change with expertise in sustainability, social organisations, and corporate social responsibility. Her research
deals with ways social movements, NGOs and community associations using communications as a dissemination tool have incorporated digital resources. She has volunteered with Brazilian and Latin American organisations to train young communicators motivated to promote causes, by organising seminars, producing manuals, and planning campaigns.
ANDREA COOPER
Andrea has worked with global corporations, government departments, charities and social enterprises demonstrating practical ways to improve people’s lives using design principles and practice. Formerly Chief Design Officer at the Design Council, for more than two decades she has been a champion for public involvement in designing better public services.
PROF. ANDREW CHITTY
Loughborough University London
Andrew trained in neuroscience where he got interested in the human visual system. This led him to film school, and then into the world of broadcasting, specifically Granada’s educational department and then BBC Science. He spent a few years trying to work out how the ‘new digital thing was going to work’ alongside Television – producing CD ROMs and building the BBC’s first website. He left to set up Illumina Digital, which became one of the UK’s leading digital content producers. He has worked with heritage institutions, government departments, educational providers and broadcasters developing their presence in the digital world. He has worked in government, on the Digital Britain Report, as a non-Executive at the communications and media regulator OFCOM.
ANGELA CHAN
StoryFutures
Angela is currently a doctoral researcher with StoryFutures, a VR and immersive lab within Royal Holloway and part of the government’s creative clustering programme. Angela has worked in the UK television industry for twenty years as a documentary maker, commissioning editor and senior manager. Most recently she was C4’s Head of Creative Diversity. Prior to this she worked at the BBC leading their external supply strategy. Angela’s research focuses on creative clustering and diversity in the value chain. It explores the business models and behaviours that drive inclusive growth in the digital and immersive sector and assesses the role of universities as catalysts. She holds an Executive MBA in the Creative Industries from Ashridge Business School, a degree in Social Anthropology from Cambridge & a Masters in Fine Art Photography.
ANITA GURUMURTHY
IT for Change
Anita Gurumurthy is a founding member and executive director of IT for Change (ITfC) where she leads research on emerging issues in the digital context such as the platform economy, data and AI governance, democracy in the digital age and feminist frameworks on digital justice. She also directs ITfC’s field resource centre that works with grassroots rural communities on ‘technology for social change’ models. Anita actively engages in national and international advocacy on digital rights and contributes regularly to academic and media spaces.
ANNA MILLHOUSE
University of the Arts London
Anna leads on partnership development between London College of Fashion and east London creative and cultural organisations, generating project opportunities that bring together local audiences, creative practitioners, researchers and students. She is part of the LCF Showcasing Group, working on a new framework and strategy for the deployment of the College’s multiple future showcasing spaces at the East Bank site, and sits on the East Bank Creative Content Group. Anna leads on the Public and Community Engagement Knowledge Exchange workstream for LCF, with a focus on the College’s placemaking agenda at it prepares for the move to Stratford in 2023.
DR ANTONIA LIGUORI
Loughborough University London
Antonia Liguori is a Senior Lecturer in Applied Storytelling at School of Design and Creative Arts, Loughborough University. Her academic background is in History and Computer Science. Over the past 15 years, she has been involved in a variety of international research projects to develop tools and methods to foster innovation in education; to explore the role of storytelling in today’s digital world; to investigate and trial ways of using digital storytelling as a participatory methodology for inter-disciplinary research. Her research focuses on three main strands: applied storytelling on environmental issues; digital storytelling in (cultural/heritage) education; storytelling and wellbeing.
BEN COLE
Loughborough University London
Ben is a skilled and passionate innovation professional with 20yrs experience of developing new ideas, programmes and activities in the education and charitable sector. An experienced practitioner in sustainable problem solving, business acceleration, organisation development and personal and professional growth. Ben is a mentor of start-ups and a founding member of the Community Interest Company that powers the Global Disability Innovation Hub. He heads up Loughborough University London’s Future Space team and manages the external partners for Techne. He can also help you learn how to say the word Loughborough (luf-bra).
DR BURÇE ÇELIK
Loughborough University London
Burçe Çelik is a senior lecturer at Loughborough University London, in the Institute for Media and Creative Industries. Her research interests include de-westernizing and decolonizing communications history, communications history in the non-West, politics of communications, women and media, authoritarianism and populism, the Ottoman Empire, Turkey and the Middle East. She has recently finished a book manuscript, titled, Communications in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey: A Critical History, which is contracted by University of Illinois Press.
CATHERINE INCE
V&A East
Catherine Ince FRIBA is Chief Curator of V&A East and leads the curatorial planning for its two new sites: a museum designed by O’Donnell & Tuomey; and a public Collection and Research Centre designed by Diller, Scofidio + Renfro. Her past exhibitions include The World of Charles and Ray Eames (2015), Bauhaus: Art as Life (2012), and Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion (2011). Catherine is a trustee of The Architecture Foundation and Chair of the Advisory Board of Kington University’s Stanley Picker Gallery and Dorich House Museum. She writes and lectures regularly on design, architecture and exhibition histories.
DR CATHERINE POPE
PhD Progress
Since completing her PhD in 2014, Catherine has coached and trained more than 3,500 PhD students across 12 universities. She has run many writing retreats and also developed training for PhD supervisors. Having facilitated over 350 workshops, Catherine now needs a rest. Rather than scampering around the country, she's sharing her experience through PhD Progress. The courses and content are based on Catherine's workshops, which have consistently received enthusiastic and positive feedback.
DR DANAH ABDULLA
University of the Arts London
Danah Abdulla is a designer, educator and researcher interested in new narratives and practices in design that push the disciplinary boundaries and definitions of the discipline. She is Programme Director of Graphic Design at Camberwell, Chelsea and Wimbledon Colleges of Arts (University of the Arts London). Danah is a founding member of the Decolonising Design research group. She earned her PhD from the Design department at Goldsmiths, University of London. Danah's research is focused on decolonising design, design education, design cultures, the politics of design, publishing, and social design. www.dabdulla.com
DANIEL ONYANGO
Hope Raisers Initiative
Daniel Onyango is the founder of Hope Raisers Initiative a community youth-led organization based in Nairobi, Kenya. Daniel has continued to support collaborative, development and art projects highlighting the importance of arts and cultural expression as a tool to inspire change, with the overall objective to strengthen and encourage youth involvement in their community. Daniel has a great experience working with marginalised youth and children in his community and brings in knowledge on a strategic level.
DR EMILIANO TRERÉ
Cardiff University
Dr. Emiliano Treré is Senior Lecturer in Media Ecologies and Social Transformation in the School of Journalism, Media and Culture at Cardiff University, UK. He is a widely cited author in digital activism, social movement and critical data studies with a special focus on the Global South. Treré has published more than 70 publications in 5 languages in peer-reviewed publications. He is one of the co-directors of the Data Justice Lab and the co-founder of the ‘Big Data from the South’ Initiative. His book Hybrid Media Activism (Routledge, 2019) won the Outstanding Book Award of the ICA Interest Group ‘Activism, Communication and Social Justice’.
PROF. FRANK LYONS
Screen and Media Innovation Lab
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GRAHAM HITCHEN
Loughborough University London
Graham Hitchen is Senior Enterprise Fellow at Loughborough University London, and Head of Strategy and Policy for Audience of the Future and the Creative Industries Clusters programme. He brings a wealth of experience in cultural and creative industries policy and delivery – nationally and regionally. He was Corporate Policy Director for Arts Council England, before setting up Creative London with the Mayor’s office in 2004 – responsible for £10m of investment annually, including establishing Film London and the London Design Festival. He has been running a successful consultancy business since 2007, advising government agencies, cities and universities on Creative Industries and innovation.
DR JOANA P. R. NEVES
Writer and Curator (Techne Alumni)
Joana is an independent writer and curator based in London. She is the Artistic Director of Drawing Now art fair and the co-founder of Worlding, an artist residency and project space in London. She is one of the founding members of @DrawingTV, supported by the Mahler LeWitt residency. As a curator, she organizes exhibitions internationally, such as The Lynx Knows no Boundaries, Fondation Ricard, Paris, in 2017, and Mr. X. The Man Who Lived 500 Years at Galeria Alberta Pane, Venice, in 2019, and, as a co-curator, the ongoing touring exhibition BLANK, a retrospective of Irma Blank’s work. In 2020, she obtained her PhD in Art History at Kingston University in 2020, Following the Indexical Line, Etienne-Jules Marey, Douglas Huebler, Sol LeWitt. Her next research project explores drawing, abstraction and technology from a feminist perspective.
JOCELYN BAILEY
University of the Arts London
Jocelyn is a Post-Doctoral researcher with the Social Design Institute at the University of the Arts London. Her PhD research looked at the phenomenon of design being deployed by and for the public sector, using ideas from Foucault and associated social and cultural theorists to develop a critical account. Previous to joining the SDI, Jocelyn worked for consultancies Uscreates and BOP Consulting, and ran the All Party Parliamentary Design Group and Design Commission at think tank Policy Connect from 2008-2013. She has a degree in Architecture from the University of Cambridge, and a Masters in History of Art from Birkbeck College, University of London. She lives in Dorset with her partner and her dog, where she also works part-time for a slow fashion business.
DR JULIA GOGA-COOKE
Loughborough University London
Julia is an academic, journalist, design thinker and entrepreneur. She started in academia, with a Ph.D in Linguistics, and moved to journalism, working for the BBC for 16 years as a broadcaster, producer, editor and senior leader. After a gap year of study in Design Thinking Innovation and Entrepreneurship at CSM and London Business School, she co-founded and managed the Future of Work Research Consortium, and the Academy of Design Thinking. Julia has worked with more than 100 companies across a wide range of industries. She is adjunct lecturer at Loughborough University London, Central Saint Martins and UpGrad Duke University.
JULIEN CLIN
Kingston University (Techne Student)
Julien Clin is a first-year PhD student at Kingston University, where he works on the poetics of Home in contemporary London writing. He previously worked in broadcast journalism working as a producer and forgein correspondent. Alongside his doctoral research, Julien also engages with Place and Urbanism as part of the PlaceLabs Collective (www.placelabs.co.uk) and through his own creative writing. Julien co-organises the Technecast.
JUSTIN SACKS
Lancaster University
Justin Sacks is a PhD candidate in Design at Lancaster University. His research develops a theory and practice of ‘commonized design’: an approach to addressing collective action problems based on the commons and commoning literature. Justin’s research draws on design research to address both how communities imagine a world built on commons/commoning as well as engage in social practices that actualise this alternative economic imaginary. Justin holds degrees in Architecture from Yale and Economic History from LSE and previously worked for 20 years in the sustainable development field.
DR LAST MOYO
American University, Nigeria
Moyo’s research interests are in digital media, media and civic engagement, comparative journalism and global media structures, political economy, decoloniality, and development communication. He has published extensively in international peer-reviewed journals like Journalism Studies, Telematic and Informatics, International Communication Gazette, and Journal of International Communication, among several others. His book, The Decolonial Turn in Media Studies in Africa and the Global South (Palgrave, 2020) received outstanding reviews from top scholars in the United Kingdom, USA, Norway, and Africa that acknowledged it as one of the leading seminal texts on decolonization the discipline.
DR LINJE MANYOZO
RMIT University
Linje Manyozo is a student of the human condition, whose communication for development scholarship and practice involves working with people to undermine the discourses and structures of inequality, as a means to co-design sustainable development interventions. Currently, Dr Linje Manyozo teaches in RMIT’s College of Design and Social Context. Beyond an extensive portfolio of development practice, Linje is the former Director of the MSc Programme in Media, Communication and Development at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He has published three books: Communicating Development With Communities; Media, Communication and Development and People’s Radio.
LIZ WILKINSON
The Careers Group
Liz Wilkinson is the Techne Careers Consultant and Senior Careers Consultant at The Careers Group, with specialisms in postgraduate and academic careers and digital employability. Formerly Director of Careers and Employability at Royal Holloway for 15 years, Liz has 30 years’ experience in employability, recruitment and HE. She has worked in 8 universities including UCL, Goldsmiths and Queen Mary, and when Deputy Director of Careers at King’s College London, she set up the targeted careers support for PhD students. Liz has delivered consultancy to Cambridge University, EdHec Lille and BI Norway.
BARONESS LOLA YOUNG OF HORNSEY
After working as actor in theatre and television, Lola entered academia and became professor of Cultural Studies, a writer, cultural critic, public speaker and broadcaster. After a stint as Head of Culture at the GLA, Lola was appointed a member of the House of Lords. Lola has sat on the Boards of several national organisations including the South Bank Centre, the Royal National Theatre, Somerset House Cultural Hub, The National Archives, and a Commissioner at Historic England. Lola founded and co-chairs All Party Parliamentary Groups on Ethics and Sustainability in Fashion, and Sport, Modern Slavery and Human Rights. A non-executive director of Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, Lola is Chancellor of the University of Nottingham and campaigns for ethical, sustainable and inclusive practices in fashion and other sectors.
DR MARIA BOGDAN
Dr. Maria Bogdan is a social scientist and a media theorist. Her main research interest is related to media representation and racism. She wrote her PhD Thesis about media representation of the Roma in Hungary, titled: ‘The Visible Stranger’ at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest. She worked as a researcher at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, at Central European University and recently at the Antigypsyism Research Center of Heidelberg University where she was the first Romani Rose Postdoctoral Researcher Fellow in 2019-2020. She is a Fulbright Alumna and has done part of her PhD research at Columbia University, New York. She is one of the founding editors of Critical Romani Studies journal.
DR MAURIZIO TELI
Aalborg University
Maurizio Teli is Associate Professor of Techno-Anthropology and Participation at the Department of Planning, Aalborg University, Denmark. He works at the intersection of participatory design, the analysis of socio-economic inequalities, and critical theories. He investigates how to co-design technologies contributing to commoning practices in society, with a particular focus on collaborations with grassroots initiatives.
NEIL PYMER
Aardman
Neil Pymer is a director working in film, animation & interactive - primarily in the wonderfully diverse and innovative interactive department at Aardman. He specialises in projects that are difficult to achieve, that educate, bring about change and have strong narratives at their heart. Neil has recently worked on animated music video for Jamie Cullum’s song Age of Anxiety, What’s Up With Everyone - a set of films looking to increase mental health awareness in young people, BBC iReporter which teaches young adults to navigate the murky
waters of fake news and StorySign an interactive experience that teaches deaf children to learn how to read which recently won White, Wooden & Graphite D&AD awards, four Gold Cannes Lions and a BAFTA nomination.
DR PANDORA SYPEREK
Loughborough University London
Pandora Syperek is Research Associate on the AHRC-funded project Counter-Framing Design at Loughborough University London. Her research interests are in the overlap of art and science, gender, the nonhuman, ecology and display. She is co-editor of a special issue of the Journal of Curatorial Studies on ‘Curating the Sea’. From 2016-2017 she was postdoctoral fellow at the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, and she holds a PhD in the History of Art from University College London. She has recently been awarded a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship for her project on the Bethnal Green Museum’s collection of animal products.
DR PAOLA RICAURTE
Tecnológico de Monterrey
Dr. Paola Ricaurte is Associate Professor in the Department of Media and Digital Culture, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University. With Nick Couldry and Ulises Mejías, co-founded Tierra Común, a network to promote reflection on data colonialism from the global South. She is a member of the <A+> Alliance for Inclusive Algorithms and the Feminist Artificial Intelligence Research Network, F<Ai>R. Her work focuses on the critical study of digital technologies from a decolonial and feminist perspective. She is interested in broadening the discussion about the social dimension of technology, its relationship to the environment, diversity, and the plurality of knowledge(s).
DR PAUL BRICKELL
London Legacy Development Corporation
Paul trained as a molecular biologist and was Professor of Molecular Hematology at the Institute of Child Health, University College London where he established an interdisciplinary childhood cancer research department. Paul changed career in 2002 to contribute to regeneration in his ‘home town’ of east London. Through the Bromley by Bow Centre and Leaside Regeneration he contributed to early visioning of the Lower Lea Valley and delivery of new homes, business workspace and associated infrastructure. The practical involvement of local people was central, creating opportunities to improve skills, get jobs and develop small businesses. Paul joined the London Legacy Development Corporation in 2011 to help promote physical, social and economic regeneration through development of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park Inclusive Innovation District.
PHILIPPA RAPPOPORT
Smithsonian Center for Learning and Digital Access
Philippa Rappoport is the Manager of Community Engagement at the Smithsonian Center for Learning and Digital Access, and in this capacity oversees a range of community digital engagement and professional development projects. She works to create experiences and digital assets for educators, schools, families, and new immigrant English Language learners, including Learning Lab teaching collections and trainings, YouTube videos with curators, educators, and tradition bearers, a handmade family stories book-making website, and online heritage tours. She has a PhD in Slavic Folklore and Linguistics from the University of Virginia, and has taught Russian, French, English as a Second Language, and comparative Slavic/American folklore for over 25 years.
POLLY HEMBER
Royal Holloway University (Techne Student)
Polly Hember is a third-year Techne funded PhD student at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her thesis explores the fictional works of the POOL group, looking at cinema, haptics and affect within modernist literature. She is a co-organiser of the Technecast, the research network Figuring out Feeling and Following the Affective Turn.
DR RAFAEL GROHMANN
Unisinos University
Dr Rafael Grohmann is Assistant Professor in Communication at the Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (Unisinos University), Brazil. Coordinator of DigiLabour Research Lab. Principal Investigator for the Fairwork project in Brazil. Founding Member of Board of Directors for Labor Tech Research Network. Researcher of Histories of Artificial Intelligence, University of Cambridge, through an International Research and Collaboration Award. His research interests include platform cooperativism and worker-owned platforms, work & AI, datafication, workers' organization, platform labor, communication and work. He holds a PhD in Communication from the University of São Paulo.
DR RAPHAEL KABO
Raphael Kabo is interested in the manifestations of utopia, the commons, and precarity in contemporary culture. His thesis, completed in late 2019, explored the representation of utopian spaces as a form of opposition to capitalism in post-2008 literature and poetry. He is a co-founder of the Utopian Acts research network (https://utopia.ac) and the Beyond Gender Research Collective (https://beyondgender.space). Outside of academia, he works on coding utopian online social networks.
DR ROBIN VAN DEN AKKER
Erasmus University College
Robin is founding editor of the research platform 'Notes on Metamodernism', which maps and analyses changes in aesthetics and culture that are symptomatic of the post-postmodern condition. He is co-editor of the edited collection Metamodernism: Historicity, Affect, and Depth (2017) that appeared in the Radical Cultural Studies Series of Rowman & Littlefield International. His work has been translated in numerous languages, including Mandarin, Russian, German, and Spanish, and includes – on the topic – the essay, “Utopia, Sort Of”.
DR SALMAN MALIK
Loughborough University London
Salman Malik is an ex-scientist, an advisory board member and multi-award winning entrepreneur. He is a part-time Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EiR) at Loughborough University London and previously was an Associate Academic at London South Bank University teaching and building programmes to promote entrepreneurial skills amongst students in Higher Education. Following his PhD at University College London (UCL), he solely founded a biotech startup and successfully raised funding to work on the research and development of a process used to cost-effectively develop microparticles (i.e. drug delivery carriers). He was also awarded a prestigious Enterprise Fellowship from The Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) which allowed him to transition as an academic scientist into an entrepreneur and CEO. He has run two businesses in two very different sectors but has experience of taking ideas and commercialising them quickly into revenue-generating businesses. He is passionate about enterprise, start-ups and supporting the next generation of entrepreneurs.
SARAH ELLIS
Royal Shakespeare Company
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DR SHARON PRENDEVILLE
Loughborough University London
Dr Sharon Prendeville is a senior lecturer/associate professor at the Institute for Design Innovation, Loughborough University in London, UK. She is Head of the Institute’s research group, Director of the Design Innovation Management programme and Principal Investigator on the AHRC-funded project entitled ‘Counter-Framing Design: Radical Design Practices for Sustainability and Social Change’. She was recently named one of the Arts and Humanities Design Research Future Stars. She was Chair of Conversations at DRS2018 and has previously held teaching and research posts at the TU Delft, The Netherlands, and the Royal College of Art, London, UK. In 2014, she co-designed and led a global grassroots collective to explore counter-cultural practices, peer-to-peer production and commons governance for sustainability.
SIMON CANE
UCL
Simon leads UCL Culture, a multifaceted department that uses cultural assets in the form of historic and contemporary collections, performance spaces, public art and knowhow to engage and connect UCL research with the world. Whilst his background is rooted in material culture and its preservation he is equally interested in the power of knowledge and culture, their production, their sharing and their impact. He says of UCL Culture ‘We believe in the power of open and that creativity is at the heart of learning and knowledge. He Chairs the East Bank Partners Strategic Objectives Board and has been working on the UCL East Project for nearly seven years.
PROF. THOMAS TUFTE
Loughborough University London
Thomas is an internationally leading scholar in the field of communication for social change. Professor Tufte's expertise and experience lie in critically exploring the interrelations between media texts/flows/genres, communicative practices and processes of citizen engagement and social change. His long-standing research interests have evolved around two key areas: qualitative audience studies and communication for social change research, often times combining the two. Thomas has led 7 international research projects in the field (between 1992-2017), having sat on numerous editorial boards, and worked in about 30 countries worldwide. He has collaborated with a broad range of organisations in international development cooperation, such as World Bank, UNICEF, UNESCO, USAID and many more.
TORANGE KHONSARI
Public Works
Torange Khonsari is Co-Founder and Director of the art and architecture practice Public Works since 2004, an inter-disciplinary practice working on the threshold of participatory and performative art, architecture, anthropology and politics. Her projects directly impact public space, working with local organisations, communities, government bodies and stakeholders. Torange has currently written and is course leader of Design for Cultural Commons Masters at The Cass (London Metropolitan University). She has taught at international universities such as UMA school of architecture in Sweden, unit leader at Royal College of Art – London as well as a visiting professor at Barbican and Guildhall school of Music and Drama. Torange recently delivered a TEDx talk on Harnessing the power of Civic Commons. publicworksgroup.net
PROF. USHA RAMAN
Hyderabad University
Usha Raman is a Professor in Communication at Hyderabad University. She is Vice President of the International Media and Communication Research. Her research interests include cultural studies of science, health communication, feminist media studies, and the social and cultural impact of digital media. She has also worked on a range of consulting projects on health promotion and behaviour change communication for the Indian Institute of Public Health (Hyderabad), UNICEF (India) and The George Institute for Global Health (India) and MIT.
TONY SUMNER
Durham University
Tony Sumner is a PhD student in the School of Education at Durham University, and co-founder of the Patient Voices Programme (www.patientvoices.org.uk). As a mature student, his research is situated within his lived, professional and educational context. His work in digital storytelling within health and social care won two international awards and lead to his research into the possibility of a “dimensionality of storytelling” that might facilitate the development, categorisation, assessment and utilisation of stories. Tony has a BSc in Physics from Imperial College, London and a PgDip in Astronomy and Astronautics from the University of Hertfordshire.
DR WILL STRONGE
Autonomy (Techne Alumni)
Will Stronge is co-director of Autonomy, an independent think tank focusing on issues relating to the future of work. He is the co-author, with Helen Hester, of the forthcoming book – Post-Work: what it is, why it matters and how we get there (Bloomsbury, 2022). He holds a PhD in politics and philosophy from the University of Brighton.
DR SEAN CUNNINGHAM
The National Archives
Sean Cunningham has worked at The National Archives since the 1990s where he is currently the Head of the Medieval Records team. Sean has extensive experience of research into late medieval and early Tudor England, and has published widely on Britain at the turn of the sixteenth century, late medieval society in northern England, and the records of government. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and co-convenor of the Late Medieval Seminar at London University’s Institute of Historical Research.
ANGELA CHAN
Independent Curator, Researcher and Artist
Angela Chan is a 'creative climate change communicator', working independently as a curator, researcher and artist. Her research reconfigures power in relation to the inequity of climate change, from colonial histories to minoritised experiences, by self-archiving through participatory conversations, rethinking geographies and speculative fiction. Her current commissions with FACT/Jerwood Arts, Estuary 2021 and Sonic Acts span climate framings, water scarcity and conflict. Angela produces curatorial projects as Worm: art + ecology, collaborating with artists, activists and youth groups. She holds a postgraduate in Climate Change (KCL), and co-founded the London Chinese Science Fiction Group and co-directs the London Science Fiction Research Community.
Website: angelaytchan.com
Twitter: @angelaytchan