Jenny Gil Sousa holds a PhD in Cultural Studies from the University of Aveiro, a master’s degree in Art and Education from the Aberta University, and a degree in Socio-Educational Animation with a specialization in Local Development from the Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra. She is a professor at the School of Education and Social Sciences of the Polytechnic University of Leiria, an integrated researcher at CICS. NOVA. IPLeiria and a collaborating researcher at CI&DEI and the Centre for Languages, Literatures and Cultures. She has written several articles and book chapters, particularly on community development, non-formal education, social intervention, education and accessibility, aging, leisure, culture, sociocultural and artistic animation, and cultural studies.
Dr. Feng graduated from Sun Yat-sen University’s School of Public Health in June 2025, majoring in Social Medicine and Health Services Management. Currently, I am a postdoctoral researcher at the School of Public Health, Sun Yat-sen University. My research focuses on chronic disease management, medical insurance payment reforms, and health policy research. Driven by a commitment to evidence-based healthcare solutions, she aims to contribute to optimizing health systems and policy design in China.
Anna Haste holds a PhD in Health Psychology and Public Health from Newcastle University, UK. She has Chartered membership with the BPS and is a registered Practitioner Psychologist (health) with the HCPC. She is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology (Health) at Teesside University. Her interests are behaviour change interventions and evaluations.
Dr. Ermir Xhindi is an Albanian scholar whose teaching and research activities are focused on Albanian literature and various theoretical-literary issues concerning the “reader’s response.” On these research interests, he has produced a number of publications and presentations in scientific activities inside and outside Albania. He is a full-time lecturer since 1994 at the “Eqrem Çabej” University, Gjirokastër, and from 2007 onwards at the Department of Language and Literature at the “Ismail Qemali” University, Vlorë.
Mrs. J.G. Chandani has bachelor of Business Statistics (University of Sri Jayewardenepura), Master of Information Technology (University of Colombo School of Computing), and Master of Social Sciences in Library and Information Science (University of Kelaniya). She is the Senior Assistant Librarian and her research interest is Bibliometrics Studies, Digital literacy, Digital preservation, Misinformation and trust, Knowledge management.
Pablo Salvary Gassilloud is a 4th year Bachelor student in political and social sciences at Ritsumeikan Asia-Pacific University (Japan).
His research focuses on political repression and international relations in the Asia-Pacific region.
