Anthropologist (PhD) – Feldenkrais practitioner ® – Marathoner
After fifteen years as an architect, he took an independent path for developing experimental projects between art, anthropology, education (in academic and non-academic contexts) inspired by his passion for running marathons. As an anthropologist (PhD 2019) and fully certified Feldenkrais teacher (somatic educational method) he works with vulnerable people in educational as well as in marginal contexts such as prison with experience of people in challenging situations (Parkinsons, depression, addiction, chronic pain, prisoners). He has recently been part of the ESRC-Care in funerals research project as Research Fellow at the University of Aberdeen, board member of Libera Uscita (right to die with dignity-IT) and is Associate Member of SCCJR The Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research. He is an EASE facilitator for delivering end of life courses and he has recently completed (March 2023) training in Leadership in Running Fitness (LiRF) and he is now Jog Scotland leader.

Occupational therapist/lecturer in public health and health promotion at RGU. Honorary member of IFF; extensive experience working in HMP Grampian and Maine State Prison, USA & Maine Hospice Council in the delivery of Humanising Healthcare, https://www.internationalfuturesforum.com/iff-newsletter-jul-2017

Mark is a retired engineer and amateur musician. He has also co-founded three charities: The Speedwell Trust in the 1980s, Woodend Arts in 1994 and Sound festival in 2005. He chaired each of these organisations for a decade or more. https://www.thebarnarts.co.uk   https://sound-scotland.co.uk/about/background
He was the Technical Director for Enterprise Oil plc in the 1990s and a director of Shell U.K. Limited in the early nighties. From 1999 – 2017 he chaired Woodend Arts, a multi-arts centre serving communities in and around Deeside. His interests include music and the arts, education, ecology and communities – particularly exploring what supports and strengthens them.

I was a primary school teacher for many years working particularly through the arts of music dance poetry drama and silence. I later focused on the role of the arts for transformation of children with emotional trauma. Now I love to share my love of the arts and nature with my grandchildren. I am delighted to support this valuable project

Sara worked in a bank for over 10 years and then turned to education opening a nursery in Italy and now teaching Italian in Scotland where she lives.

Silvia is Senior lecturer of Visual Culture at the University of Aberdeen working at the intersection of visual culture, cinema, science and technology studies, and aesthetics. At the University of Aberdeen, she coordinates the undergraduate medical humanities degree and co-direct the George Washington Wilson Centre for Visual Culture. 

Emilia is a Lecturer in Sustainable Design at the University of Dundee and an anthropologist who has developed expertise on a variety of issues around Sustainability, both at the local as well as at the international level. Her journey as a researcher started among the indigenous Quichua peasants of Northern Ecuador, where she has resided for prolonged periods of time between 1991 and 2015.

Born in Alicante, he has worked as an architect with Francis Kéré, studied as an anthropologist with Tim Ingold, and researched at the Department of Architecture and Built Environment at Northumbria University. From there, he has gone into sustainable business and independent research ranging from agriculture and education, through immunology and epidemiology, to design and construction. Bringing together family, business, and academia, he researches for life and lives for research

Deborah is an expedition Kayak Guide for Vikings Cruises. She previously was lecturer at the School of Adventure Studies, University of Highlands and Islands. She is an anthropologist and educator, who has a background in white-water kayaking and guiding people down wild and remote rivers. Her research interests are positioned around education, inclusion dyslexia and modes of thinking.