Category: Delegate
Miss Selina Fletcher
Selina leads the Environment Team and sustainability agenda at Coventry University, defining strategy and opportunities to further embed sustainability across the organisation. Energy and carbon reduction; resource efficiency, supply chain management, travel are all focus areas for the team. Working across key groups and partners Selina brings together wider objectives for sustainability relating to a responsible curriculum, community engagement, research opportunities and student skills.
Dr Liz Breen
Dr Liz Breen is the Director of the Digital Health Enterprise Zone and Reader in Health Service Operations at the University of Bradford. The Digital Health Enterprise Zone hosted the Phase 3 trials of the Novavax Covid-19 vaccine (2020/21) and Covid-19 vaccine booster trial and houses state-of-the-art health facilities, business incubation space, research, and teaching facilities. Liz is Deputy theme lead for the Safe Use of Medicines theme in the Yorkshire and Humber Patient Safety Translational Research Centre and has leading roles in multi-million-pound National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) funded programmes. Liz holds a PhD in Supply Chain Management from the University of Manchester and a MSc in Operations from the same institution, a PG/Dip in Health Service Management and a BSc (Hons) in Sociology. She has held previous academic/research roles at the University of Bradford Faculty of Management, Law and Social Sciences, University of Manchester, and Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust. Liz has published in academic and professional journals focusing on end-to-end healthcare supply chains with a particular emphasis on the pharmaceutical supply chain. She has appeared as a supply chain expert on global media channels and has presented evidence to the UK government on medicines supply issues. More recently, she has undertaken extensive analysis of the UK Covid-19 vaccine supply chain and has commented on this in widespread media coverage. She was commissioned by The Conversation to create a specialist article on supply chain learning from the Covid-19 pandemic. This featured in the PreventionWeb collection with the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction.
Dr Tasnim Atatrah
Dr Tasnim Atatrah, WHO Represnative and Head of WHO Country Office in the Kingdom of Bahrain since June 2021. Dr Atatrah is a Public health Specialist, medical doctor and policy fellow. Have been leading number of interventions over the past 20 years. Worked in 12 countries between Europe , Middle East and North Africa in different capacities; Led emergency operation and health humanitarian response for Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, and Libya; Mobilized resources and led interventions to promote health wellbeing in Palestine, Jordan, and Turkey; Oversee the development of National Health Strategies in line with SDG 2030 in Turkey, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan; Led interventions to strengthen health security combined with health system strengthening; managing sub-regional platform and creating bridges of cooperation in Central Asia, and served as acting WHO representative in Kyrgyzstan (2018), Tajikistan (2019) and Turkmenistan (2021); Leading innovative Programme design and implementation to advance the realization of Universal Health Coverage and Sustainable Development Goals.
Professor Amer Al-Roubaie
Professor Amer Al-Roubaie is currently teaching economics at Ahlia University, Kingdom of Bahrain. He obtained his doctorate in Economics from McGill University in Montreal, Canada. He taught economics at universities in Canada, the United States and Malaysia. His publications include books, research reports and many articles which appeared in a number of international journals.
Mrs Sinead Ouillon
Following five years of delivering a wide range of projects using Coventry City as a test bed/living lab, Sinead Founded FabLab Coventry in 2016, using living lab approaches and methodologies to set up and operate what is essentially a STEAM (Science technology Engineering Arts and Maths) civic engagement programme, resourced by a world renowned social science research Institute (Institute for Peace Security and Social Justice). FabLab Coventry’s unique approach of citizen and social science driven, STEAM civic collaboration is novel in the world, and yet the evidence from our members, evaluation and social impact studies point towards this humble yet unorthodox approach to co-creation of research and university civic engagement, as a resounding success. With a background in circular economy, social research and social innovation, Sinead has built up an extensive range of support, from external stakeholders, local communities and external funding agencies to help in making a difference by testing social innovations capable of responding to a myriad of socio-economic, environmental and physical wellbeing challenges. She specialises in the design, implementation and evaluation of living labs as urban innovation spaces, using a range of participatory methodologies and approaches. She is currently responsible for over £3m of externally funded research and social innovation projects. Her research interests include, the circular economy, citizen social science, integration, social enterprise and innovation, Living labs, urban innovation and community university engagement.
Dr Parvathy A.K.
Dr.A.K.Parvathy is Heading the Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Hindustan Institute of Technology and Science. Dr.A K Parvathy has more than twenty five years of experience in teaching, research and industry. Dr. A K Parvathy has 42 publications in refereed International Journals and presented 32 papers in International conferences. Her research interest is in Renewable Energy Systems, Power System and Advanced Control of Electric Machines. She has completed two research projects funded by Government of India and has one ongoing funded project from Royal Academy of Engineering, UK in collaboration with University of Leeds,UK.
She has visited University of Leeds, UK, University of Bradford, UK, Yildiz Technical University, Turkey, Naresuan University, Thailand for delivering invited lectures and discussing research collaboration. She has guided 5 PhD scholars for completion of PhD. She has convened 15 International seminars, organized four International and National Conferences.