Professor Edward Abbott-Halpin is currently the Principal at the University of the Highlands and Islands, Orkney College, and Professor of Social and Human Rights Informatics at the University.
Simon Lee is Professor of Law at Aston University and Emeritus Professor of Jurisprudence, Queen’s University, Belfast.
Uroosa Mushtaq is a Doctoral Fellow (Cotutelle) at the Centre for Trust Peace and Social Relations, Coventry University, and Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University.
Dr Kirsten Lloyd is a Lecturer in Curatorial Theory and Practice at The University of Edinburgh, where she founded and directs the MSc by Research in Collections and Curating Practices.
Professor Alex Law teaches sociology at Abertay University, Dundee.
Dr Martyn Hudson is an Applied Sociologist of Art and Design and a Critical Theorist whose primary research interests lie in Sound Art, Cultural Landscapes, Classical Origins of Critical Theory and Aesthetics, Socially Engaged Practice with Communities and Design-led methodologies.
Talia Esnard (Ph.D. Sociology) is a senior lecturer and current Head of the Department of Behavioural Sciences, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus in Trinidad and Tobago.
Ali Moussa Iye is a Djiboutian writer and researcher. He holds a PhD in political science from the Institute of Political Science (Grenoble, France).
Dr Bisht has a Ph. D from Diplomatic Studies Division, Jawaharlal Nehru University, where she wrote her thesis on multi-stakeholder negotiations on security and development.
Barbara Groot is a senior researcher who conducted her Ph.D. in ‘Ethics of Participatory Health Research’. She co-founded an eight-year-long collaboration called ‘Centre of Client Experiences’ which was focused on policy change with people in vulnerable situations.
Tineke Abma is a professor for Participation at the Leiden University Medical centre, and Executive-Director of the Leyden Academy on Vitality and Ageing.
Saiyyidah Zaidi is a pioneering and bridge building independent practitioner-researcher and leadership coach investigating the intersection of race, gender, and religion using conversation as a methodology.
Carolina Nvé Díaz San Francisco, born and raised in Spain, completed a Bachelor of Arts in anthropology at the University of East London (United Kingdom) and a Master of Science in medical anthropology at Boston University School of Medicine (Massachusetts, United States).
Dr Fábio A. D. Merladet holds a degree in Social Sciences from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), a Ph.D. in Post-Colonialisms and Global Citizenship from the Centre for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra (CES-UC) and is the coordinator of the Popular University of Social Movements (UPMS).
Alexandre da Trindade is a Brazilian doctoral student at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, working with Professor Susan L. Robertson, and holds a master’s degree in Global Prosperity from University College London (UCL).
Garrett Thomson is the chief executive officer of the Guerrand-Hermès Foundation for Peace, and he teaches philosophy at the College of Wooster, where he holds the Compton Chair.
Kenneth J. Gergen, PhD, is a founding member, President of the Taos Institute Chair of the Board, and the Mustin Professor of Psychology at Swarthmore College. Gergen also serves as an Honorary Professor at the University of Buenos Aires.
Prof Phil Henry is a retired academic specialised in the fields of Buddhist social movements, radicalisation, and security.
Pashaura Singh is a Distinguished Professor and Dr. J.S. Saini Endowed Chair in Sikh and Punjabi Studies at the University of California, Riverside. He teaches courses on Sikhism, the Religions of India, the Historiography of Sikh Hermeneutics, and the Comparative Study of Scriptures at both undergraduate and graduate levels.
Dr Abhijit Mandal has a doctoral degree from the London Business School, UK. He has published academic papers in the disciplines of Management, including Strategic Management and International Business among others.
Dr Ramesh Pattni is a psychologist and a Hindu theologian with a deep interest in presenting the psychological concepts, tools, and techniques of ancient traditions in today’s world for mental well-being.
Prudence Jones, MA (Cantab.), ACIL, FRSA is the Interfaith Liaison Officer of the Pagan Federation (f.1971), the national representative body for Pagan (polytheistic, nature-venerating) faith communities, of which she was President from 1979 to 1991 and 2000-2.
Jeremy Rodell is Dialogue Officer for Humanists UK.
Rabbi Jacqueline Tabick sat on the Interfaith Network for the UK for many years, was a patron of the Jewish Council for Refugees, and is presently President of the World Congress of Faiths.
Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor is an Associate Professor in the Sociology of Islam at the Centre for Trust, Peace, and Social Relations, Coventry University, UK. She is Chair (2020-2023) of the Muslims in Britain Research Network (MBRN) and is a Series Editor of the Review of Social and Scientific Study of Religion.
Jørgen S. Nielsen is Professor Emeritus of Contemporary European Islam, Dept of Theology and Religion, University of Birmingham. Previously he was the Danish National Research Foundation Professor of Islamic Studies, Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen, until June 2013 and remains attached as an Affiliate Professor in the Faculties of Humanities and Theology.
Paul S. Fiddes is a Professor of Systematic Theology at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of the British Academy. He is the Emeritus Principal of Regent's Park College and an Honorary Fellow of St. Peter's College, Oxford.
Dr Martin Whittingham is the Academic Dean of the Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies Oxford, an independent academic centre. He is also an associate member of the Faculty of Theology and Religion at the University of Oxford and a Research Fellow at Regent’s Park College, Oxford.
Michael Taylor is a graduate of Manchester University and Union Theological Seminary New York. He was a local Baptist minister for ten years in the Northeast and the Midlands before becoming Principal of the Northern Baptist College, soon to become an ecumenical centre for theological education and training and lecturer in theology and ethics at Manchester University.
Hiroko Kinoshita is Associate Professor at the International Student Center, Kyushu University.
Julia Plessing is Project Lead for Research at the French-German Forum for the Future, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS).
Anna Hüncke is a Research Associate with a focus on fieldwork and action research at the French-German Forum for the Future.
Nora Ratzmann is Research Associate at the "French-German Forum for the Future", Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS).
Dr Capstick is a Lecturer in TESOL and Applied Linguistics at the University of Reading.
Angela Scollan is a Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood Studies and Education Studies at Middlesex University.
Claudio Baraldi is a professor of Sociology of cultural and communicative processes at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Department of Studies on language and culture.
Federico Farini is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Northampton.
Dr Sebastian Relitz is a research associate at Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena and director of the NGO Corridors – Dialogue through Cooperation.
Vadim Romashov is currently finalising his doctoral research on the everyday co-existence of Ar- Armenians and Azerbaijanis in rural settlements of Georgia.
Dr Élise Féron is a Docent and a senior research fellow at the Tampere Peace Research Institute (Finland).
Dr Marko Lehti is a senior research fellow at and a deputy director of Tampere Peace Research Institute (TAPRI) and an academic director of master's degree programme in Peace, Mediation and Conflict Research (PEACE) both at Tampere University.
Dr Sebastian Stevens is Research Director and Co-Founder of Apollo Health Innovations and contributes to research at the University of Plymouth.
Dr Rachel Manning is a research assistant at the University of Plymouth.
Zoe Latham is a Doctoral Teaching Assistant in Architecture.
Dr Paul Warwick is Director of the University of Plymouth’s Centre of Sustainable Futures.
Professor Robert Brown’s research is grounded in professional and personal experience of operating as the other, having worked on community development projects in Africa, India, and the UK.
Evelyn Henderson-Child holds a Master’s degree in Intercultural Communication from Utrecht University in the Netherlands, with a specialism in the study of multilingual interactions and language policies fostering inclusive multilingualism.
Dr Luisa Conti is since 2006 lecturer on Intercultural Communication at theUniversity of Jena (Germany) and has been visiting lecturer and researcher at various foreign Universities.
Dr Matthew Barber-Rowell is a William Temple Foundation Research Fellow.
Amedeo Varriale is currently a third-year (full-time) Ph.D candidate and Research Assistant at the University of East London, UK.
Professor Winslow received her Ph.D. in History from the University of California, Santa Barbara, an M.A. in History from California State University, Sacramento, and a B.A. in History and Political Science from the University of Rochester. She is the author of The Best Possible Immigrants: International Adoption and the American Family (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017).
Professor Dunn earned her Ph.D. and M.A. in communication arts and sciences from the University of Southern California. Her BA is in speech and communication with an emphasis on social movements from San Francisco State.
Yahya is a Senior Visiting Researcher at CAS with research interests in Black African Diasporas, Islamophobia, Right-wing Populism & Christian-Muslim Relations in West Africa.
David has been ordained for nearly 40 years with all of his ministry spent in urban inner-city parishes. He has served in the West Midlands and North-West of England.
Dr Jenn Lindsay is an award-winning social scientist and documentary filmmaker specializing in social and religious diversity and a professor of Sociology and Communications at John Cabot University in Rome.
Dr Sneha Roy is a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the School of Divinity at the University of Edinburgh.
Aireen Grace Andal is a PhD researcher in philosophy and ethics at Ural Federal University, Russian Federation.
Pedro Roberto Jacobi is a Senior Professor in the postgraduate program of environmental science at the Institute of Energy and Environment of the University of São Paulo (Brazil).
Renata Ferraz de Toledo is a graduate in biological sciences (1997) from Universidade Estadual Paulista and environmental educator (1999) at the School of Public Health of the University of São Paulo.
Bassam Kassoumeh is an independent Syrian researcher focusing on governance, conflict resolution, peacebuilding and state-building.
Canon Dr. Andrew Smith has been involved in faith-based youth work and interfaith dialogue since 1988. He brought these two disciplines together in 2000 by developing a model of youth dialogue that forms the basis for the work of the charity The Feast. Dr. Smith is a regular speaker on interfaith issues both in the UK and overseas.
Eirliani Abdul Rahman is a former diplomat for Singapore who works in the child sex trafficking space with Nobel Peace Laureate Kailash Satyarthi.
Suzanne Goodney Lea, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Crime, Justice, and Security Studies at the University of the District of Columbia, in Washington, DC.
Seamus Montgomery is a DPhil candidate in the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology (ISCA) and the Institute for Science, Innovation, and Society (InSIS) at the University of Oxford.
Anna Vainio is an Anthropologist working in the context of East Asia, with a specific focus on contemporary Japanese society.
Dr Serena Hussain is a Sociologist and Human Geographer. As Associate Professor at the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations, she is the Course Director for the MA in Global Diversity Governance.
Professor Hardy is Chair of Intercultural Relations and was founding Director of the Centre for Trust, Peace, and Social Relations at Coventry University.
Dr Katherine O’Lone is a researcher and public education officer at the Woolf Institute, Cambridge.
David Goldberg is retired from working as an adolescent psychiatrist.
Angela Marcela Olarte Delgado is a researcher at the Centre of Criminal Policy, Universidad Externado de Colombia.
Beth Macy is an organisational development consultant in private practice near Houston, Texas, USA.
Adam Peter Lang is a former London secondary school teacher and school leader. He is now at University College, London, working as a PhD research scholar.
Dr Owen Logan is an Honorary Research Fellow in the University of Aberdeen’s School of Divinity, History, Philosophy, and Art History.
Marcos Sorrentino is a senior lecturer and coordinates the Environmental Education and Politics Laboratory (Oca).
Rafael de Araujo Arosa Monteiro is a PhD student and MSc in Environmental Science (2018) from the University of São Paulo.
Lucía Mesa-Vélez is an MA candidate in Postcolonial Culture and Global Policy at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Oliver Ramsbotham is an Emeritus Professor of Conflict Resolution, University of Bradford
Lisa Gibson holds a JD degree in law from Western Michigan University and is a PhD candidate in international relations at University of Nottingham.
Mike Ogunnusi is a Lecturer and PhD student at De Montfort University, UK, as well as a Peace Educator and Youth Work Practitioner.
Mustafa Demir holds a PhD in International Relations. His research interests include the MENA region, and policies of MENA countries towards minorities.
Richard Race has taught Education Studies (Keele University; St. Mary's University; London Metropolitan University) and (Applied) Social Sciences (Keele University; Liverpool John Moores University; Roehampton University).
Dorit Lemberger is a senior lecturer at the Hermeneutics and Cultural Studies Programme, Bar Ilan University.
Frances Sleap studied Philosophy and Theology at the University of Oxford, graduating with first class honours, before exploring different religions in a master’s degree in the Study of Religions.
Diana Francis is a peace activist and scholar. She is a consultant working on conflict transformation with local activists in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia.
Fatih Isik obtained his BA and MA degrees in English Teacher Education from Bilkent University and has completed his PhD at Leeds Beckett University. Fatih’s areas of interest include moral character education, social and moral development and citizenship.
Preston Evangelou is a doctoral candidate at King’s College, whose research examines how the Winnicottian theory of transitional progression might be analogous to Johannine theology of spiritual development.
Andrew Tinker is a PhD candidate from Duquesne University. He is also the Editorial Assistant of the Journal of Communication and Religion.
Founder of the Globalisation for the Common Good Initiative and co-editor of GCGI Journal
Researcher
Assistant Professor at the University of Georgia in the College Student Affairs Administration program
Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership at California State University
Lecturer in Social Work at the University of Leeds
Lecturer in Social Work at the School of Healthcare, University of Leeds
Associate Professor of Interreligious Studies at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University
Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge’s MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of Gävle, Sweden
Emeritus Professor at La Trobe University
Member of the Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Department at Lancaster University
Assistant Professor of Politics at Ithaca College
Former Director of the Christian Muslim Forum, Julian Bond is currently working in Methodist Publishing.
Dr Charles Wright teaches in the Department of Philosophy at the College of St. Benedict and St. John’s University in Central Minnesota, U.S.A.
Dr. Dvora Lederman Daniely is a researcher and lecturer at David Yellin and Givat Washington Colleges in Israel.
Elli Nagai-Rothe holds an M.A in International Peace and Conflict Resolution.
Pietro de Perini is Ph.D. Candidate at City University, London.
Professor Scherto R. Gill is a researcher, writer, educator, and facilitator who creates a safe space for deep listening and generative dialogue with others towards a better understanding of global challenges.
Professor of Inter-Religious Relations at the University of Derby and Head of Research and Commercial Development in its Faculty of Education, Health and Sciences
Senior Lecturer in English Universite des Antilles et de la Guyane Campus de Troubiran Pole Universitaire Guyanais
Division of Family Practice, Victoria, BC, Canada
British Columbia Schizophrenia Society, Victoria Branch, Victoria, BC, Canada
Department of Psychiatry, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada
Associate Professor in Faculty of Medicine Department of Psychiatry, The University of British Columbia
Chair and Professor of the Department of Communication & Rhetorical Studies and the Henry Koren, C.S.Sp, Endowed Chair for Scholarly Excellence at Duquesne University
Professor of Applied and Professional Ethics, Faculty of Business and Law, Leeds Beckett University
Lecturer in Community and Youth Work at Durham University
Director of the Pathways School of Philosophy, Sheffield UK, and founder member of the International Society for Philosophers
Project Lead for the Beltane Public Engagement Network at The University of Edinburgh
Honorary Fellow of the Institute for the Study of Science, Technology and Innovation at The University of Edinburgh
Fellow of the Academy of Government at The University of Edinburgh
Senior Lecturer in Community Development at the School of Social Science, The University of Queensland
Professor and Chair at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies of the University of North Florida
Professor of Philosophy at the University of Dundee, Scotland
Associate Professor in Leadership & Organizational Development within the Department of Management in the Business School at Université Laval, in Quebec City, Canada.
Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Aquinas Scholars Honors Program at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN
Director of not-for-profit NGO the de Borda Institute
PhD student with the department of Citizenship and Globalisation at Deakin University, Australia
Lecturer in Peace Studies and a member of the International Centre for Participation Studies at the University of Bradford
Deputy director of the Centre for Social Relations at Coventry University
Professor and Director of the Graduate Program in Communication at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
