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Meet our Lightkeepers &
Beacon Bearers!

Our holistic team is made up of global educators, multi-lingual researchers, equality specialists, translators, and health and wellbeing professionals.

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Lightkeepers

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Leila Neshat Mokadem

CEO

Curricula Innovation - Health Equity - Global Citizenship

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Leila is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy with extensive experience as a programme director, departmental EDI lead, institutional equality champion, global citizenship educator and external examiner.

She has clinical experience as a specialist hospital pharmacist, GP practice-based prescribing advisor, and community pharmacist. Her current transdisciplinary doctoral research is on health equity, ethnicity, and public involvement in health research. 

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Dr Clare Depasquale

Director for research

and collaborative practice

Interprofessional Education - Experiential Learning

 

Clare is an experienced researcher and educator with expertise in interprofessional education and experiential learning. She also has extensive practice and leadership experience as a pharmacist in Malta.

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Our Beacon Bearers 

Suzanne Law 
Digital Learning and Experience Lead
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Hossa Skandary-Macpherson
International Relations &  Women's Education Consultant
Scotland-Afghanistan





Marie Bowers
STEM Educator, Researcher
Gypsy Roma Traveller communities






Blessing S Bulaun
Youth Mentor and Researcher
Nigeria - Scotland

Dr Zahra Neshat     
Global Health Strategy
Geneva, Switzerland




 
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Gbemileke Majekodunmi
Health Communication for Community Engagement  Lead 
 
 
 
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Dr Joanna Shim
Mixed Methods and Patient and Public Engagement Health Researcher



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Dr Betty Dube
Pharmacist, Certified Diabetic Educator and Public Involvement Health Researcher
Scotland-Tanzania-Canada-South Africa

Susanne Machin-Autenrieth
Academic Social Worker and Anti-racist Practice Expert

Pooja Rai
Award Winning Children's Author 
Secondary School Teacher
Scotland-Singapore

Saadia Khalid
Pharmacist & Life Long Learning Educator
England
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