Keynote Speakers
Professor María Nieves TapiaPrograma Nacional Educación Solidaria Ministerio de Educación, Argentina and Founder and Academic Director of Centro Latinoamericano de Aprendizaje y Servicio Solidario (CLAYSS), the Latin American Center for Service-Learning, South America Professor María Nieves Tapia is director of the new Argentina National Service-learning Program, “Educación Solidaria”, assisting more than 5,000 schools and 400 Higher Education institutions doing service projects. She is also Founder and Academic Director of Centro Latinoamericano de Aprendizaje y Servicio Solidario (CLAYSS), the Latin American Center for Service-learning. more>>
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Professor Robert BringleChancellor's Professor of Psychology and Philanthropic Studies and Director of the Center for Service and Learning at Indiana University-Purdue University, USA Professor Bringle (B.A., Hanover College, Psychology and Mathematics; M.S. and Ph.D., University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Social Psychology), an IUPUI faculty member since 1974, has been involved in the development, implementation, and evaluation of numerous educational programs directed at talented undergraduate psychology majors, high school psychology teachers, first-year students, and the introductory psychology course. As a social psychologist, he is widely know for his research on close relationships, including jealousy, love, and attachment. more>>
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Professor Brenda GourleyVice-Chancellor of the Open University, UK Professor Brenda Gourley has been Vice-Chancellor of The Open University since 2002. She shares with The Open University a social justice agenda and a belief in education as a tool to tackle growing inequalities in the global society. |  |
Fergus Finlay, Chief Executive, BarnardosChief Executive of Barnardos, former Senior Adviser to the Irish Labour Party, Ireland Since June 2005 Fergus Finlay has been Chief Executive of Barnardos, Ireland's largest children's charity. For twenty years prior to that he was employed as Senior Adviser to the Labour Party, serving in three Governments and working for the Party in opposition. He was one of the drafters of the Downing Street Declaration and was centrally involved in the election of President Mary Robinson in 1990, together with other political events of the period. more>> |  |
Professer Michael CuthillDirector of the University of Queensland Boilerhouse for Community Engagement Centre, Australia Associate Professor Michael Cuthill has been involved in the broad area of participatory democracy for 13 years. He has worked in government, the private sector and academia, and has held his current appointment at the University of Queensland, as Director of the UQ Boilerhouse Community Engagement Centre, since 2005. Under his direction the centre has now developed and implemented 18 major action research projects primarily relating to issues of engaged governance and social sustainability. These projects actively involve over 100 private, public, community and university sector stakeholders working together to build better communities. more>> |  |
Sr Stanislaus KennedyLife President Focus Ireland, Visionary and Social Innovator, Ireland Sister Stanislaus Kennedy was born in The Dingle Peninsula, Co. Kerry and was educated in the Presentation School Dingle, U.C.D., Dublin and The University of Manchester. She is a Religious Sister of Charity and one of Ireland's best-known social innovators. more>> |  |
Professor Pat DolanUNESCO Chair in Children, Youth and Civic Engagement, NUI Galway, Ireland Professor Pat Dolan is joint founder and Director of the Child and Family Research Centre and the Higher Diploma/Masters Degree in Family Support Studies. For over 20 years he has had an active interest at worker, service manager, academic and research levels in Family Support and community based interventions in helping adolescents. He has completed longitudinal research on adolescents their perceived mental health and social support networks. His additional research interests include Family Support; Reflective Practice and Service Development; and Youth Mentoring Models. |  |
Professor Alan SmithUNESCO Chair in Education for Pluralism, Human Rights and Democracy, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland Professor Alan Smith is holder of the UNESCO Chair in Education at the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland where he is head of a research unit based within the School of Education. He has taught in Northern Ireland and Zimbabwe and was a Senior Research Fellow at the University's Centre for the Study of Conflict. His work has included research on education and the conflict in Northern Ireland, young people's understanding of human rights and the development of social, civic and political education. He has been a British Council visiting research fellow to Nigeria and Indonesia; a consultant for the World Bank in Bosnia and Sri Lanka; and recently completed a report for DFID on ‘Education, Conflict and International Development’. more>> |  |
Mary O'MalleyPoet, Member of Aosdána, Ireland Mary O’Malley is an award-winning poet and member of Aosdána. She lectures on the MA in Drama and the Arts in Education at NUI, Galway and is also the current Writer-in-Residence at NUI, Galway. She is basing her residency around a programme on civic space in Galway which she has called it ‘What goes round comes around’. Through her residency she has facilitated public participation in a series of readings, talks and workshops given by a range of speakers, including a visual artist, a climber/environmentalist specialising in threatened wildernesses and their languages, a philosophy graduate versed in the writings of Gaston Bachelard and a social geographer. more>> |  |
