James Green is head of department for Fine Art Mixed Media at the Faculty of Art and Design at the British University in Egypt and a practicing artist. James has a master’s degree in painting from the Royal College of Art London and was awarded a Ph.D. by Cardiff Metropolitan University.

James had taught higher education art and design internationally, particularly in the UK, South America, and China, and now lives and works in Cairo. His artwork is in many private collections around the world, and his current research areas are how collage can be used to democratise the classroom, how artists have used altered states of consciousness to inform their work, practice-based research led art and design pedagogy.

Gayda AlZohbi is currently an assistant professor at Prince Mohamed Bin Fahd University in Al Khobar, KSA. Gaydaa is a full member at the Renewable Energy Institute since October 2021. Gaydaa completed her PhD in Engineering Sciences and Technology at the Brussels school of Engineering, Université Libre de Bruxelles in Brussels, Belgium.

She joined the department of Aero-Thermo-mechanics of the Brussels school of Engineering in 2015 as a postdoctoral researcher. Her research interests lie in the area of renewable energy (solar and wind energy), energy storage (pumped hydro storage system and compressed air energy storage), hydrogen energy, building integrated photovoltaics (BIPV), energy efficiency and retrofit of building. In 2017, she worked as a research member in the International Energy Agency (IEA), PVPS Task 15-subtask B on the identification, benchmarking, and development of business models of BIPV products in different regions and countries. She worked on many projects on wind energy, PV and CPV, air compressed energy storage and pumped hydro storage system, and on hydrogen generation and storage. She has served on conference technical committee and served as reviewer for many journals.

Having started her career in the life sciences, Helen has dedicated herself to helping knowledge-intensive companies with strategy, organisational transformation, and performance management. With extensive experience across Europe and the U.S. in the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries, her passion lies in supporting individuals and teams to achieve their best outputs.

This journey has inevitably led Helen to encounter digital learning and support tools in its many formats. Helen has recently worked with content developers at Pearsons to create a total learning experience online for global masters’ students.

Helen shares her experience of teaching online globally and how to engage and ensure all students feel included in the digital world we operate within. Helen likes to involve her audiences, therefore please be ready for an interactive session of sharing and discussion. 

A passionate teacher since 1999, she has worked in all educational sectors and has been a teacher educator since 2009. Her research focuses around the challenges of implementing more inclusive learning design, the use of threshold concepts in learning design and the effective design of assessment briefs. She is the author of an innovative book: Rossi, V. (2023) "Inclusive Learning Design in Higher Education. London: Routledge" and of its companion website: https://inclusivelearningdesign.com/

She is currently writing a book about the PGCert course, a staff development provision typical in UK university for in-service staff.