Naydene de Lange

Naydene de Lange is Emeritus Professor in the Faculty of Education at the Nelson Mandela University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa.听 Her research focuses on using participatory visual methodologies in addressing gender-based violence and HIV&AIDS issues and integrating gender and HIV&AIDS into Higher Education curricula. Her Educational Psychology background and interest in Inclusive Education provides a frame for working towards the inclusion of those who are marginalised - using a 鈥榬esearch as social change鈥� framework. Besides numerous peer reviewed articles and book chapters, she has co-edited three books,听Putting People in the Picture: Visual Methodologies for Social Change; School-University Partnerships for Educational Change in Rural South Africa; and听The Handbook of Participatory Video. She has also co-authored two books,听Picturing Hope听and听Participatory Visual Methodologies, Social Change, Community and Policy.听She has been primary investigator and co-investigator in several national and international projects and facilitates workshops on participatory visual methodologies and postgraduate supervision,听 and also mentors new generation academics.

Deborah Maia de Lima

I am a Brazilian dancer, researcher, psychologist, and educator. Coordinator and the principal investigator of the Dancing with the Land: 鈥楶ole-to-Pole鈥� Connections Involving Indigenous Dance, Body/Land and Intergeneration in the Americas project. This project explores the relationship between land, body and intergeneration among Indigenous peoples of the Americas, mainly Canada, Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina. I have a Post doctoral in Education working with the prevention of sexual and gender-based violence through dance among young Indigenous women and on knowledge mobilization, both at the Department of Integrated Studies on Education at 9I制作厂免费. I also have a PhD in 脡tudes et pratiques des arts (Universit茅 du Qu茅bec 脿 Montr茅al - Canada) and in Performing Arts (Federal University of Bahia - UFBA- Brazil). My Masters was in Clinical Psychology and Culture ( University of Bras铆lia - UNB鈥� Brazil). Currently, my work focuses on the intergenerational aspects of the relationship between dance/corporeality/land and art-based visual methods as tools to contribute to the Indigenous leadership鈥檚 framework for social change and climate justice. I am a member of the working group on Human Rights and Indigenous, Quilombola and Afro-descendant Protection of the Ministry of Labor of the Government of Brazil and of the Global Directory Who's Who in Dance (Conseil International de la Danse - UNESCO). My artistic background includes : member as a dancer, singer and player in the interdisciplinary Brazilian Dance Group Baiad么; researcher and dancer in the Dance-Theatre group An么nimos da Silva. My research work includes studies on Human Rights, Indigenous land/body connections, community dances as artistic and education tool; contact 鈥� improvisation; dance movement therapy; and Danzaterapia, as resources for education, artistic creation, illness prevention and solutions for injustice against minorities. I have participated in projects and internships and have been taught workshops at the Federal University of Uberlandia and University of Bras铆lia (Brazil) related to creativity for psychiatric patients; care and quality of life; elder well-being, dance improvisation; sociocultural inclusion in public schools; educational and therapeutic effects of cultural dances; body awareness and training for actors and dancers. My artistic practice emphasizes interdisciplinary approaches to embodiment, somatic education, community psychology, immigrant adaptation, Indigenous studies, decolonized approaches, and creativity/innovation in formal and informal educational systems. I have supervised students in interdisciplinary fields at the interface of Education, Arts, and Health for 20 years.

Chris Gilham

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Fatoumata Keita

Fatoumata KEITA is an Assistant Professor of Literature at the English Department of the University of Arts and Human Sciences of Bamako (Universit茅 des Lettres et des Sciences Humaines de Bamako) Mali. She graduated from the University Gaston Berger of Saint-Louis, Senegal where she earned a BA in African Literature (2004), a MA in American literature (2008) and a Doctorate in American literature (2014). Her teaching and research focus on Africana women鈥檚 writings (fiction and autobiographies) and political activism for gender justice. Her research interests encompass gender issues, postcolonial and decolonial thinking, Feminism, epistemic justice, quality assurance in higher education and curriculum development. Her current research analyzes the intersection between women鈥檚 rights, conflicts and religion in Mali today.听

Christina Kwauk听

Christina Kwauk, PhD, is a social scientist with an interdisciplinary focus on education and training for climate action. She is an expert on girls鈥� education in developing countries, 21st century skills and youth empowerment, and the intersections of gender, education, and climate change.

Christina co-edited (with Radhika Iyengar)听Curriculum and Learning for Climate Action: Toward an SDG 4.7 Roadmap for Systems Change听and co-authored (with Gene Sperling and Rebecca Winthrop)听What Works in Girls鈥� Education: Evidence for the World鈥檚 Best Investment. She has published numerous academic articles and听 policy papers, including 鈥淭he new green learning agenda: Approaches to quality education for climate empowerment."

Christina works as an education consultant and is Research Director at Unbounded Associates. She also serves on the Cosmos of Stars for RegenIntel, Girl Rising鈥檚 Advisory Council, the International Jury for the UNESCO Prize for Girls鈥� and Women鈥檚 Education, and is a member of the Climate Change Action Plan Ad Hoc Committee for the Prince George's County Public Schools Board of Education.

Formerly, Christina was a Fellow at the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution, Associate Director of the Monitoring and Evaluation of Climate Communication and Education (MECCE) Project, and Head of Climate and Education at the Education Commission.听

Claudia Lucotti

Claudia Lucotti is Professor of English at the Facultad de Filosof铆a y Letras, Universidad Nacional Aut贸noma de M茅xico (UNAM). Her teaching and research have focussed increasingly on women and gender issues, postcolonial and decolonial literature, and translation studies. She co-coordinates the 鈥淢argaret Atwood, Alanis Obomsawin, Gabrielle Roy鈥� Chair for Canadian Studies at UNAM and is responsible for the project 鈥淢eridiano 105- An e-anthology of women poets from Canada and Mexico鈥�, a project in which she has involved a number of UNAM students interested in establishing cross-cultural dialogues.

Katie MacEntee

Dr. Katie MacEntee is a Research Associate at the University of Guelph and a Senior Researcher and the Centre for Community Based Research. Her research is interdisciplinary and spans the areas of health and education with a focus on the use of participatory visual methodologies to study peer navigation and HIV and AIDS, sexual and reproductive health, gender-based violence, youth homelessness, and access to disability accommodations in experiential education. She has worked internationally and in diverse rural and urban settings with youth and adults to explore these topics. She has a special interest in cellphilm method, which uses mobile technology for video-making in response to a research prompt. The approach leverages everyday media practices for knowledge creation and mobilization. In 2023, she published her second book on the topic:听Cellphilm as a Participatory Visual Method: Mobilizing opportunities for research, teaching and social change.听

Thabo Msibi

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Fikile Nxumalo

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Rukimi Panda

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Cristina Vieira

Cristina C. Vieira holds a degree in Psychology (1991) from the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the University of Coimbra (FPCEUC), Portugal, and a PhD in Educational Sciences, specializing in Educational Psychology (2003), from the same institution. She began her academic career in 1992 at FPCEUC and has been responsible for various curricular units related to quantitative and qualitative scientific research methodology in the curricula of graduation and postgraduation programmes (in Education Sciences, Psychology and Social Work), having more than three decades of teaching experience. Her research interests focus on issues of gender and education across the life cycle, with a particular emphasis on socialisation in contexts such as family and school (broadly defined). She has published several book chapters and articles both in the area of scientific research methodology in education and social sciences, with a focus on qualitative methods, and in the area of education, gender and citizenship, in formal and non-formal contexts.

Lisa Wiebesiek

听Dr Lisa Wiebesiek is the research manager of the Centre for Visual Methodologies for Social Change at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Her work focuses on girlhood, gender and sexuality, comprehensive sexuality education, rurality, and participatory visual methodology. She was a co-editor of the 2021 book Ethical Practice in Participatory Research with Girls: Transnational Approaches published by Berghahn Books in 2021.听

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Taylor Winfield

Taylor Paige Winfield is a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education at 9I制作厂免费 and an incoming Assistant Professor in the School of Sociology at the University of Arizona. Dr. Winfield studies how restrictive state institutions work to transform women鈥檚 behaviour and sense of selves. With a focus on gender, race, and class, she traces how women from diverse backgrounds navigate these efforts and imagine and bring about change in the organizations. Her upcoming book,听Becoming a Soldier, addresses this topic through three years of immersive ethnography and over 100 interviews with new soldiers in the U.S. Army. 听She recently completed an 18-month ethnography and participatory arts-based study in a South African women鈥檚 correctional facility in order to compare across organizations with different purposes and rationales for control, as well as in countries with distinct racial and gendered regimes. As a feminist scholar and community-engaged researcher, Dr. Winfield has over a decade of experience conducting immersive, longitudinal studies in global settings with restricted access.听Her work has been supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, National Science Foundation, and U.S. Fulbright Award.