Ruth Francesca Mogan
Ruth Francesca Mogan is a visual arts teacher based in Singapore, specialising in guiding students aged 4 to 17 through a wide range of fine art mediums. With a diverse foundation in painting, drawing, sculpture, graphic design, and more, she draws on both her formal training in Art Teaching at the Nanyang Academy of Fine […]
Peder Clark
Peder Clark is a historian of drugs and health in modern Britain, currently employed at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. He is currently writing a new cultural and social history of the drug Ecstasy (MDMA or 3,4-methylendioxymethamphetamine), provisionally entitled Pills: Ecstasy in Britain in the Nineties. His research is supported by the Wellcome trust.
Sarah Ward
Sarah Ward is a fiction writer and an education academic who uses creative methods in research. She has published short stories in New Writing Scotland 38 (2020), the middle of a sentence (2020) and Words about Whiteinch (2010). She won the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize for her novel Resurrection, Port Glasgow in 2017 and was […]
Emile Chabal
Emile Chabal is a political and intellectual historian specialising in postwar Europe. He is currently a faculty member at the University of Edinburgh. During this residency at Cove Park, Emile is convening a group of scholars who have collaborated with him on a British Academy-funded project examining race, identity, and political mobilisation in France and […]
Kate Keohane
Dr Kate Keohane is a Fellow in Art History and Wellbeing at St Edmund Hall and The Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford. Her research centres on the interplay between text and image and the ways in which art can offer alternative models for being-in-the-world. Kate is currently working on her first monograph, which […]
Earth Month 2025: Cultures of Action
Danielle Chavrimootoo
Danielle Chavrimootoo is Director of Dorcas Inclusive Education Consultancy supporting organisations in advancing equality, diversity and inclusion. With over twenty years’ experience in a variety of roles both academic and professional services in Further and Higher Education. Danielle’s background is teaching Health and Social Care in Further Education. Danielle moved into higher education and taught […]
Dr Hilary Wason
Dr Hilary Wason is the Head of Curriculum and Academic Development at Kingston University with 30 years of experience in business, education, and research. Her research focuses on curriculum development, the third space in curriculum change, critical thinking, and dialogic education. She holds a Doctorate in Education for her thesis on teaching critical thinking in […]
Janine Mitchell
Janine Mitchell is a final year Doctoral Researcher. She has a Master of Research in Humanities from the University of Stirling. Her practice-led doctoral research project is focused on Central and Southern Africa and the creation of biographical narratives. She received the Scottish Universities Research Collection Associate Scheme Award for the development of the Mackay […]
Bartelijntje Buys
Bartelijntje Buys is a field biologist with the University of Ghent, Belgium. Her research – involving bears, wolves, ground squirrels, birds, chimpanzees, cetaceans, and marine nematodes – explores how ecology, behavioural biology, policy and conservation interact with each other. She believes in the resilience of nature, of which humans play a part. She respects the […]
Shailini Vinod
Piers Blaikie
Piers Blaikie is Emeritus Professor at the School of International Development, University of East Anglia. He has had forty years of teaching and researching in India, Nepal and central Africa, mainly on environmental issues such as forestry, participation in local management and national parks. He was born and has lived in Scotland for 25 years […]