In 2018 Mark Pierce retired from the Dallas Independent School District after 27 years of service, 23 years of which he served as the Program Manager of Homeless Education Program. He received his BA from Boston College, a Masters in Education Administration from Texas A&M and is currently a Doctoral Candidate at Southern Methodist University.
Brigita Janiūnaitė is a full professor at Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, member of the Research Group in Education, Kaunas University of Technology (Lithuania). She has PhD in Social sciences (Education). Her research is focused on the issues of change management and social innovation; development of innovative culture at individual and organizational level; higher education; curriculum development.
Omaima Mohammed Al Hinai holds a Bachelor’s degree from Sultan Qaboos University in Teaching English as a Second Language, and a Master’s degree from East China Normal University in Educational Management and Policy Making. She works as an English Lecturer in University of Technology and Applied Sciences in Muscat, Oman.
Emmanuel Effiong Johnson is a Nigerian researcher, filmmaker and poet. His background is Media and Communications and he is committed to research that borders on the theme of personal experience. His other areas of focus include education, identity, belonging, film, faith/religion and everyday life. The most significant and reoccurring focus of Emmanuel’s work is the exploration of personal (lived) experience, and how people are affected or/and transformed by events, situations and experiences. He is passionate about creative methods of research, like film, because it furthers expression, of self and ideas, encourages accessibility and engages with people in and out of the academe. Through his research practise, he aims to reach a wide audience of people, both academics and non-academics, while promoting values of self-expression and authenticity about human lived experience.
Evelyn Vera-Flández is a Chilean BIO Fulbright-ANID grantee currently pursuing a PhD in the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education at UCSB with an emphasis in Applied Linguistic. She also teaches Spanish for heritage language students at the Spanish and Portuguese Department at UCSB.
She is working as a lecturer at the University of Tabuk in the KSA. Also, she is a PhD student at the University of Exeter. Her research deals with barriers and opportunities for creative pedagogical practices in gifted classes in primary schools in KSA.
Angela Choi Fung Tam is a Senior Lecturer at the College of Professional and Continuing Education, Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Her research interests lie in feedback literacy, hybrid teaching and learning, medium of instruction, and professional learning community.
WU Jun, Vivian is a Lecturer of the General Education Foundation Programme in the Office of University General Education at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She received her PhD in Physics (University of Pittsburgh) in 2011. She has been involved in various pedagogic development and educational research, including developing micro-module courseware, promoting peer collaborative learning, and carrying out narrative qualitative analysis to understand students’ thinking complexity.
Shaher Rebhi Elayyan is an assistant professor of science education. He has 12 years of academic experience. He has published internationally and with well-known publishers, such as Springer Nature. He has experience with the education systems of Saudi Arabia, Oman and Jordan. He has attended various academic events in Oman, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Italy, the UK and Singapore.