Learning Inclusion in a Digital Age: Belonging and Finding a Voice with the Disadvantaged
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Professor Stephen Dobson is Dean of Education and the Arts at CQUniversity in Queensland, Australia and Professor II at the Centre of Lifelong Learning, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences. He has published books on Assessing the Viva in Higher Education (2017), Learning Cities. Multimodal Explorations and Placed Pedagogies (2018) and Beyond Assessment – The Hidden World of Language Games and Capital (2023). He is co-founder of the international Centre of Excellence. Educating for the Future.
Associate Professor Svoen holds the position at Centre for Lifelong Learning, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences. She has a background in Informatics and media education, and her academic interests include adult learning, practice-oriented learning, participatory design, and inclusion. Her publications include Let's Talk and Share! Refugees and Migrants Building Social Inclusion and Wellbeing Through Digital Stories (2019), Developing online resources for adult refugees in an increasingly unfriendly Europe: The case for inclusion, self-determination, and cultural responsiveness (2023) and the book Learning Through Professional Work, published in Norwegian(2023).
Professor Agrusti teaches Assessment in Education and Educational Research Methods at LUMSA University. She had led EU projects and is currently a member of an Italian Ministry working group reforming educational assessment in primary schooling. Her research focuses upon literacy and citizenship education. Her journal publications include Supporting the Inclusion of Refugees: Policies, Theories and Actions (2019), Understanding School and Classroom Contexts for Civic and Citizenship Education: The Importance of Teacher Data in the IEA Studies (2021) and Developing online resources for adult refugees in an increasingly unfriendly Europe: The case for inclusion, self-determination, and cultural responsiveness (2023).
Dr Victoria (Pip)Hardy is a Director of Pilgrim Projects Ltd., and the Co-founder of the Patient Voices Programme, founded in 2003. This is one of the longest-running digital storytelling projects in the world and the first to focus on healthcare. Pip is also a Research Fellow with the Institute for Medical Humanities based at Durham University in the UK. Pip was the winner of the BMJ 2010 award for Excellence in Healthcare Education and has published widely including Cultivating Compassion: How Digital Storytelling is Transforming Healthcare (2014), and Digital Storytelling in Higher Education: International Perspectives (2017).
