Alison Steven PhD, BSc(Hons), MSc, PGCRM, RN is Professor of Research in Nursing and Health Professions education at Northumbria University UK, and visiting professor at the University of Genoa Italy. She has over 20 years’ experience in Nursing and Health professions research.

Her work concerns the enhancement of safety and quality in professional practice through a focus on 3 areas of research: health professions education and learning; staff health and wellbeing; the embedding of skills, knowledge and innovations in practice.

Prof Steven developed the notion of ‘Emotional safety for learning’ from a series of research studies and first used this term in a 2014 paper based on a UK wide patient safety learning study. Since then she has further elaborated the concept of ‘Emotional safety for learning’ through national and international studies, papers and a co-authored book chapter in the 2019 ‘Routledge international handbook of Nurse Education’.

Prof Steven has led or been involved in over 30 funded projects, including leading the 5 country  ‘Sharing learning from practice to improve patient safety’ project (SLIPPS) funded by the European union. She has published widely and undertaken research across a spectrum of settings, and in 2014 was awarded the British Medical Association Joan Dawkins research award. She supervises a range of doctorates and is Secretary for the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing European region workforce committee.

Faculty of Sciences of Education, University ,,Stefan cel Mare” of Suceava, Romania. Currently, she is also a postdoctoral fellow at Centre of Research in Psychology of Alexandru Ioan Cuza, University of Iași, Romania. Her research interests are focused on developing social-emotional abilities, and how Positive Psychology can be applied to educational contexts. Additionally, she is interested in studying intrapersonal and interpersonal effects of emotions and emotional processes on intimate partners' dynamics, the cross-cultural study of emotions and romantic relationships, resilience and personal growth. She teaches Couple and Family Psychology, Resilience Psychology, Work Psychology and Educational Psychology. She published 20 papers in English, in the form of journal articles. She has worked in 4 different European research labs, being able to conduct research projects in international teams.

Emerging researcher and leader in the field of oncology nursing, whose academic journey culminated in the recent achievement of a Ph.D. Their passion for advancing knowledge and making impactful contributions to oncology nursing has driven their career from the outset. Their doctoral research entitled ‘Biographical Compromise When Living with a Chronic Condition and Caring for Someone with Cancer: A Grounded Theory Analysis’ addressed how informal carers manage their chronic conditions whilst caring for a family member or friend with cancer. Dr Daren Chircop is a lecturer at the Faculty of Health Sciences of the University of Malta and harbours an interest in the use of technology in Education. Dr Daren Chircop is also a haematology nurse at Sir Anthony Mamo Oncology Centre in Malta. 

Dominique Correia de Oliveira is a senior lecturer at HESAV, Haute Ecole de Santé du Canton de Vaud, Lausanne, Switzerland, and quality auditor for Palliative.CH.

He has a degree in Nursing from ESEVC,Escola Superior de Enfermagem de Viana de Castelo.  with a specialization in Clinical Nutrition from FCNAUP, Faculdade das Ciencias de Nutriçao da Universidade do Porto. Specialist in Maternal and Obstetrical Health holds a Master in Management of Health Institutions by the Geneva Haute Ecole de Commerce. The object of his Master thesis was the analysis of a project for the implementation of a computerized care record within a home care service and the understanding of its organizational, operational and managerial impacts. By his managerial experience in the socio-health sector, he will be able to contribute to understanding and identifying the organizational and operational challenges of digital transformation within the teams of teachers and collaborators of different schools and universities.

Actually, his research interest is about the use of new technologies in the area of Health and the Pedagogy. He is member of the scientific committee of Gamification Serious Games Symposium, Neuchâtel, Switzerland (https//.gsgs.ch) and member of Swiss Association for Nursing Science, scientific society of andragogy and care: Digital Nursing Science.

Professor Correia has the experience of Clinical Simulation, Simulated Patients and was the author of the research project to develop a Serious Game software prototype to support the simulation of a case of urgency: Serious Games for Emergency Rescue -SG4ER, and PRITS -Patients’ Rights Innovative Teach Strategy.

Gianluca Catania started his academic career at the University of Genoa (Italy) in 2014, and ever since, in addition to all his teaching commitments, he has conducted many research studies and projects in the field of healthcare quality and safety, and palliative and cancer nursing care, with a history of over 90 publications in peer reviewed journals. In particular, he started conducting research in direct connection with the RN4CAST International Consortium in 2015 and has since then conducted several funded national research projects on topics specifically related to nurse staffing, nurse-patient ratios, skill-mix and missed care. In relation to these topics, he has built and maintained long-standing contacts and collaborated with renown international experts in this field. Especially in the last 5 years, Gianluca Catania has focused his work on exploring the association between essential missed nursing care, nurse staffing ratios, patient safety, and nurses’ job satisfaction. Gianluca Catania is a Fulbright Scholar and Associate Professor at the Department of Health Sciences at the University of Genoa and Senior Fellow at the Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research at the School of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania (USA).

Vice-Dean of Research in Education. PhD in Educational Psychology, MA in Social Psychology, MSc in Education and Psychology.

Currently, He is Associate Professor of Research Methods and Assessment in Education. He researches the assessment of emotional intelligence and its relationship with well-being and life outcomes, as well as He studies the evaluation of emotional education programs across the lifespan. He has published over 30 journal articles and taught more than 60 invited lectures, including universities in the USA, United Kingdom, Ecuador, Dominican Republic, Portugal, and Brazil. He is a fellow of the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences (ISSID) and of the International Society of Research on Emotion (ISRE) and is an Associate Editor of the British Journal of Educational Psychology. He works at the Faculty of Education at the National University of Distance Education (UNED) in Madrid, Spain, where he is Founder and Director of EDUEMO Lab (Emotional Education Laboratory). He is co-author of some of the most cited papers in the field of emotional intelligence.

Lisa Gomes, born in Boston, Massachusetts (USA), PhD from the Portuguese Catholic University, Institute of Health Sciences, Porto-Portugal. Has a Master's degree in Education Sciences and a Bachelor's degree in Nursing. She is a specialist in Rehabilitation Nursing and also has a degree has a Nursing Specialist. She is a Professor at University of Minho since 2005. Coordinator of the Mobility and Internationalization Commission (Erasmus Academic Coordinator) at the School of Nursing of the University of Minho and Member of the Postgraduate Course in Rehabilitation Nursing Committee. Develops her research at the Nursing Research Center (CIEnf) of the Nursing School of the University of Minho and the Research Unit in Health Sciences: Nursing UICISA:E Coimbra/ University of Minho. In the area of internationalization, she has taught in more than 10 countries and in 2019 was Visiting Scholar at the Center for Nursing Research at Pennsylvania State University, USA. 

Areas of interest: chronic disease; health literacy; health promotion; cardiac rehabilitation; emotional competence; digital environments in nursing education.

I am a mother, grandmother, researcher and teacher. I always assumed that my value as professor, would be measured, not by the knowledge I expressed..., but by the flights, and by the wingspan of my students. I tried to respect all those who crossed paths with me in life... but to my students, consciously or not, I dedicated my joy, tenderness and energy of instigation, motivation, obligation to reflect on things. Now that I realize that my life is lengthening and renewing itself, I realize that because I love my job so much - the daily routines, the students, going about in the classrooms - I feel that, after all, I've always been very active and dedicated, but in fact, I almost never worked... I lived times and spaces of incredible pleasure and breathing life.

Dr. Sullivan earned her BSN (1975), MS (1992), and DNP (2013) from JHSON.  Prior to beginning her work at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, Dr. Sullivan had a wide variety of nursing experiences that included ED/trauma/critical care of both adult and pediatric patients, nursing management, a nurse educator role working with new graduate nurses, and a clinical nurse specialist role focusing on care coordination and readmission reduction. In her current role as the Director of Immersive Learning, she is responsible for the integration of simulation into the pre-licensure program, enhancing student learning and meeting program and course objectives. She is also responsible for the overall management of the simulation center. Additionally, she teaches medical/surgical nursing in the pre-licensure program. Dr. Sullivan's research focuses on the use of simulation in nursing education; both in academia and practice. In practice, the focus is on improving the nursing response in the first few minutes of a cardiac arrest using rapid cycle deliberate practice simulation. She was a member of the 2015 NLN Simulation Leader cohort and worked with the American Heart Association on a project exploring the best simulation strategies for maintaining CPR competencies. Dr. Sullivan publishes and presents locally, nationally, and internationally on simulation and resuscitation training. 

Dr Roderick Bugeja is a resident academic at the Department of Nursing, University of Malta and has been a lecturer since 2002. Graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Nursing in 1999, ENBA (Sexual & Reproductive Health) (University of Sheffield, UK) in 2001; Post Graduate Diploma in Nutrition & Dietetics (University of Malta) in 2001, Masters in Health Promotion & Public Health in 2002, MPhil in Research Methodologies (University of Southampton, UK) in 2004 and attained his doctorate (PhD) in Health Education in 2010. Roderick worked as a Sexual & Reproductive Health Adviser, Health Promotion Specialist in Sexual & Reproductive Health and Research & Development Officer in Primary Care, before embarking on a full-time academic role in 2008. He lectures about Sexuality, Sexual & Reproductive Health; Health Promotion & Primary Care; Research Methodologies and Conceptual Frameworks; Academic Searching, Reading and Writing; and Evidence Appraisal & Synthesis. He also conducts freelance Sexuality & Relationships Education Programmes consultancy. Outside working hours, Roderick is a cellist, a pianist, and a dad of two boys.

Doctoral Student at the International School of Doctorate, National University of Distance Education, Biomedical Sciences and Public Health Program, Spain. Master in Psychospiritual Accompaniment, Universidad Alberto Hurtado; Master in Education, Universidad Bolivariana; Master in Human Resources Management, Escuela de Negocios EOI, Spain. Nurse and Bachelor's Degree in Nursing, Universidad de Antofagasta.
With 22 years of professional experience, worked 11 years in Primary Care, of which 10 years, served as director of different Health Centers. Since 2012, has been dedicated to academia in different institutions of higher education. Has been developing the research line, "risk and protective factors of suicidal ideation in nursing students". Has measured suicidal risk and its relationship with emotional intelligence, spirituality, burnout, academic engagement, among other associated factors.
Is currently Assistant Professor and Secretary of Outreach of the Department of Nursing belonging to the Faculty of Health Sciences of the Universidad de Antofagasta, is also a member of the Ethics and Scientific Research Committee of the same University. Has published fifteen scientific articles in Scopus and other indexed journals related to his line of research.

Susana de Noronha is an anthropologist with a PhD in Sociology, currently Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies (CES), University of Coimbra, Portugal. She is the co-coordinator of CES Ethics in Research Discussion Group and a member of the Editorial Board of the CES Collection Book Series (U.Coimbra Press IUC). Additionally, she holds the position of Ambassador for Portugal in the Association for the Study of Death and Society (UK). She has received several awards and distinctions, including: Women in Science 2023, by Ciência Viva, honouring Portuguese scientists who have excelled in different fields of investigation; Distinguished by an international jury with the 2007 CES Award for Young Portuguese-speaking Social Scientists; Winner of the 2003 Bernardino Machado Award for Anthropology by the University of Coimbra. She has authored the following research monographs: A Tinta, a Mariposa e a Metástase: a arte como experiência, conhecimento e ação sobre o cancro de mama (2009, Afrontamento); Objetos Feitos de Cancro: mulheres, cultura material e doença nas estórias da arte (2015, Almedina); Cancro Sobre Papel: estórias de oito mulheres portuguesas entre palavra falada, arte e ciência escrita (2019, Almedina). She is also a published poet/lyricist and author of scientific illustrations, having coined a new methodology - creative ethnographic drawing.