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University of Glasgow
Gilmourhill Campus
Glasgow, Glasgow City, G1 8QQ
United Kingdom

Alejandro Serrano Saunders

Alejandro is a mental health advocate and associate researcher of clinical psychology at the University of Glasgow. He believes in the power of open communication and mental health literacy, which come together to help us learn the language of mental health. Through this, he has founded I Speak Mental Health, a startup dedicated to support anyone experiencing mental health challenges with supportive and educational resources backed by research.

Ana Isabel Bacallado

Ana Isabel Bacallado is a fourth-year Psychology and Business student at Glasgow University. She has been through many things in her life, from having to migrate to a different country with her family to starting a small business at the age of 11! Her story is brought together with a simple sentence: “If you can visualise it, you can make it happen”.

Dr Alena Kostyk

Imagine a world where we can shape the future exactly into what we want it to be. According to Dr Alena Kostyk, a lecturer in Marketing at the University of Glasgow, we already have the tools to do so, we’re just not using them.

Dr Ciara McGrath

Dr Ciara McGrath is a Research Associate in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Strathclyde. In her research she investigates the use of constellations of small satellites for responsive Earth observation. Her talk will bust myths about satellites, show us how one day you can make your own and take us into the stars!

Dr Felix Economakis

Felix Economakis is a psychologist and the most prolific practitioner in the treatment of ARFID in the world today. He had demonstrated that breakthroughs with ARFID and other eating disorders are possible even with just one session using a protocol he has developed over 15 years.

Dr Kate Lister

Dr Kate Lister is a lecturer at Leeds Trinity University, a historian, writer, and blogger. She is the author of ‘A Curious History of Sex’, and in 2017, Kate won the Sexual Freedom Award, Publicist of the Year.

Marios Philiastides

Marios Philiastides is a Full Professor at the Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology at the University of Glasgow. His research group uses multi¬modal brain imaging to understand the neurobiologi¬cal principles underlying human decision making and learning in both healthy and clinical populations.

Prof Jaime Toney

Prof Jaime Toney is a Professor in Environmental and Climate Science at the University of Glasgow who uses organic geochemistry as a tool to understand how the Earth system responds to climate change. Her grounding talk will be told from the perspective of the Earth and will explore the future we are all facing due to the changing climate.

Russel Wardrop

Russell Wardrop is a short, broad Glaswegian who founded Kissing With Confidence two decades ago, a consultancy that creates rainmakers in businesses across the world. An inspirational speaker, he developed the Confidence Formula after years working professionals on their public speaking skills and reflecting on their personal journey and transformation.

Sophia Smith

Knowledge is power but not knowing is... creativity? Sophia Smith is a second-year English Lit student at the University of Glasgow with a passion for all kinds of art. She claims that Maris from the hit TV show Frasier should never be seen. To find out what that means and why it’s important, join us for her talk!