Chris Baldryis Emeritus Professor in the University of Stirling Management School and is a sociologist specialising in the field of work and employment and employment relations. He was editor of the journal New Technology Work and Employment and was called as an expert witness to the Cullen Enquiry into the Ladbroke Grove rail disaster. A recent and ongoing research interest is the relationship between social organisation and the built working environment.
Ruth Cigman is Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy of Education at University College London Institute of Education. She did a Ph.D. on emotion in music at Cambridge University before turning her attention to emotion in other spheres. Published articles include: “Death, misfortune and species inequality”, “Ethical confidence in education”, “Self-esteem and the confidence to fail”, “Enhancing children”, “We need to talk about well-being” and “Education without condescension: philosophy, personhood and cognitive disability.” Her aim throughout has been to articulate robust concepts of emotion and well-being – suitable for education and everyday life – distinguishing them from politically and scientifically motivated corruptions.
Carol Craig is Chief Executive of the Centre for Confidence and Well-Being, a small charitable organisation based in Scotland which she established in 2005. Prior to taking up this post Carol ran her own training and development business specialising in personal and team development. Carol is author of The Scots’ Crisis of Confidence, Creating Confidence: a handbook for professionals working with young people and The Tears that Made the Clyde: Well-being in Glasgow. In 2012 the Centre and Argyll Publishing launched a series of small books called Postcards from Scotland. Carol is the commissioning editor and also wrote number two in the series: The Great Takeover – how materialism, the media and markets now dominate our lives. In the first few years of operation the Centre’s work was particularly centred on Positive Psychology. Now the Centre, under Carol's leadership, has broadened its agenda and is forging new ways to think about confidence and well-being.
Emma Flynn My Yoga journey comes from the truth that it breathed life and space into my exercise routine and my day to day life. My inspiration comes from other amazing teachers across the world who I've been fortunate enough to take presence in their classes. I enjoy the community feel Yoga brings and the healthy lifestyle choices I’ve made due to the knowledge Yoga practise gives me. I have practised around the world as far as Singapore, New York and Sydney. My hopes are to bring mindfulness, free thinking, movement, emotional well being and communication to encourage confident individual children and for families in Edinburgh to feel the yoga love.
Claire Gibbleft school in 2002 with only two clear objectives in mind; to make art and travel. Lucky for her just prior to leaving school she stumbled across Room 13; an autonomous pupil-run art studio operating out of a spare classroom in Caol Primary School. Claire applied to the Managing Director of Room13, eleven-year-old Rebecca MacDougall, and was granted the role of volunteer studio assistant. She embarked on what she anticipated would be an interesting gap year. Since then, Claire has taken an active role in working with young people, artists and educators in many countries to establish student-run and community based art studios, and set up Room13 International as a charity to support the worldwide studio network and safeguard its future development.
JonnaJepsen Since 1994 Jonnahas worked with premature children’s special difficulties and needs, with particular focus on the hidden consequences affecting the mental, emotional, and sense-motor skills. Since 2008 the field has expanded to include all children and youngsters in need for being seen and reached behind the symptoms. Initiator, developer and manager of the intervention project which was documented in “Four Letters Apart”. Author of several books, among these: “Born Too Early” (in English) and the latest one “Reaching the Child behind the Symptoms” (in Danish).
Charlotte Lunde is a Norwegian journalist and MD working in the field of child neurology at Oslo Universityhospital.
She has a special interest in ADHD and overdiagnosis andthinks an interdisciplinary approach is needed to help the increasing amount of children receiving psychotropic drugs.
Catriona Morrison is a former professional triathlete and multiple World and European champion in the sport of duathlon. She has been involved in sport all of her life and is a passionate advocate for the role of sport and physical activity in the development of well-being, life-skills and resilience in young people. She has worked as a community active schools coordinator, is a junior triathlon coach and currently manages “Champions in Schools” which is a sporting role model programme that takes Scotland’s elite athletes into the classroom to inspire, motivate and empower young people.
Colin Morrisonis one of the founders and Co-Director of Children’s Parliament, Scotland’s centre of excellence for children’s participation. Colin’s input draws on CP’s work on facilitating children’s engagement with emerging policy and practice on the theme of wellbeing. His professional background is in teaching, play and adult education. Colin is also a partner in social research company TASC, where he manages the Pupil Inclusion Network Scotland (PINS). He has particular research interests in children and young people’s relationship and sexual health learning and in adult sexual health and wellbeing.
Lesley Riddoch is an award-winning broadcaster, writer and journalist. She writes weekly columns for The Scotsman and the National newspapers and is a regular contributor to The Guardian, BBC Question Time, Any Questions and STV’s Scotland Tonight. She is founder and Director of Nordic Horizons, a policy group that brings Nordic experts into the Scottish Parliament. A long standing advocate of community control, Lesley was a trustee of the Isle of Eigg Trust before its buyout by islanders in 1997.
Lesley presented You and Yours on BBC Radio 4, The Mid night Hour on BBC2 and The People’s Parliament and Powerhouse on Channel 4. She founded the Scottish feminist magazine Harpies and Quines, won two Sony awards for her daily Radio Scotland show and edited The Scotswoman – a 1995 edition of The Scotsman written and edited by its female staff.
Jim Stevenson is Emeritus Professor of Developmental Psychopathology at the University of Southampton. He has conducted a wide range of studies on both social and biological influences on emotional, behavioural and developmental difficulties in young children. In two studies his research team have shown how artificial additives in food increase the levels of hyperactivity in children. He is currently working on a longitudinal study of the mental health of children with permanent childhood hearing impairment. He is a former Senior Editor of the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.
John Stewart is Emeritus Professor of Health History at Glasgow Caledonian University. Among his research and publication interests are the history of social welfare in Britain, the history of welfare policy knowledge transfer between Britain and New Zealand, and the history of child psychiatry. His most recent book is Child Guidance in Britain, 1918-1955: The Dangerous Age of Childhood (London, 2013).
ColwynTrevarthenis Professor (Emeritus) of Child Psychology and Psychobiology at The University of Edinburgh. He has published on brain development, infant communication, and child learning and emotional health. A recent book on "Communicative Musicality", co-edited with Stephen Malloch,reviews how rhythms and expressions in movement motivate communication and give essential support to development and the learning of language and other cultural skills. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and a Vice-President of the British Association for Early Childhood Education.