Speakers
Mr. Richard Cheng is an Assistant Professor at Hong Kong Adventist College, and he is working on his doctorate at the University of Bristol. He has been teaching at the tertiary level for more than 6 years in Hong Kong. His research interests are shadow education in Hong Kong and Task-based Language Teaching.
Ms. Liina Männiksaar has been working as a lecturer in Tallinn Health Care College, in the Chair of Nursing since 2020. She teaches Nursing Process, Nursing Interventios and Clinical Practise. Her areas of interest are Ethics, Learning Process, Feedback and Simulation learning.
Mrs.Florencia Yaque is a secondary and tertiary level teacher in Uruguay and has been working for ten years in public education. She has written articles related to practical activities and experiences. She has got a diploma on Economy another in Education Institutions Management, and a Master’s degree on the same subject.
Mrs. Hatice Kırmacı is a physics teacher in Istanbul /Turkey. She has been working as a physics teacher for 26 years .She has involved many national and international projects (Erasmus+ projects) for 15 years. She is also founder of “Women Science Teachers” social portal. She organized some competitions , scientific fairs, workshops for teachers and students in the Europe.
Dr. Lucia Fraga-Vinas is a hired researcher at University of A Coruña (UDC), a professor at UNED. She is currently a visiting researcher at Universidade do Minho where she is doing a post-doctoral programme as part of the Spanish Government’s Excellence Scholarship “Margarita Salas” she obtained. She is a member of the research group DILEC (UDC) and CIEd (UMinho). Areas of research: TEFL, assessment, rubrics, CEFR, and plurilingualism.
Dr. Adam Haisraeli is the head of the Department of Education at Kibbutzim College of Education and a lecturer in the School of Education at Tel Aviv University. He was a postdoc fellow in Mofet Institute. His fields of research are inequality, ethnicity and class, pedagogical innovation in schools and parent–teacher relations.
Prof. Dr. Noelia Mª Galán-Rodríguez is a professor at the Faculty of Education (Universidade da Coruña, UDC) where she teaches Foreign Language Teaching and Methodologies courses. She is also a member of the research group DILEC (UDC). Her research interests are affective and cognitive factors in FL learning, plurilingualism, intertextuality, transmedia narratives and popular culture.
Dr. Grace Agbede is a postdoctoral fellow affiliated with the Transformation through Arts and Design Research Focus Group at the Durban University of Technology, South Africa. She holds a doctorate and master’s degrees from the Durban University of Technology in 2016 and 2019 respectively where she majored in Language Practice and a BA(Hons) in English from Babcock University. Agbede’s areas of research interests include visual discourse; stylistics; discourse and communication; marketing discourse; and sociocommunication. At present, her research projects include areas of higher education, research management, language and communication with a focus on mass media and society. Her latest publication is on “Research management in higher education institutions: Uncharted challenges and solutions.
Prof Dr. Maria de Fátima Goulão is an assistant professor at Universidade Aberta. She graduated in Educational Psychology from Higher Institute of Applied Psychology in Lisbon, in 1994 She made, also, a Phd in Sciences Education, specialization in Adult Education from the Universidade Aberta, Lisbon, in 2002. She was Vice-President of Scientific Council at Universidade Aberta (Lisbon, Portugal) and Director of the Department of Social Sciences and Politics. She was the coordinator for the Training Course on Service, at Universidade Aberta, for secondary school teachers. She was, also, member of the Coordinating Council of the Department. She is member of the Department of Education and Distance Learning, of the Unit for Research and Development in Education and Training, Distance Learning Lab.
Dr. Eyal Eckhaus is a senior lecturer at the department of economics & business administration, Ariel University. He received his Ph.D. in management from Bar-Ilan University. His main research interests focus on data mining, happiness, and education. He is also a data scientist and developed content analysis software tools for research.
