Soumaya Belhadj
Tunis El Manar University – Tunisia
Areas of Focus: Neuropsychology; Personality; Socio-emotional functioning; Migration
IW topic: Mental health and Migration
Language/ Format: English / in person
Dr. Soumaya Belhadj obtained a Doctorate in Psychology and Educational Sciences, Speciality "Neuropsychology" from the University of Liège, Belgium in 2012. She is a lecturer and researcher at the Higher Institute of Human Sciences of Tunis El Manar University since 2015. She has been the coordinator of the professional Master's degree in Clinical Neuropsychology and Cognitive Psychopathology from 2016 to 2024.
Hector Viquez Gomez
Sin Fronteras IAP – Mexico
Areas of Focus: Migration in Mexico
IW topic: The Social Worker's Intervention in the Migration Context: Experiences from Civil Society in Mexico
Language / Format: Spanish (with translation to DE/EN) / in person
Héctor Miguel Víquez Gómez holds a degree in Health Promotion from the Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México. He was responsible for the Day Center at Sin Fronteras I.A.P. from 2019 to 2021, led the Social Work department from 2021 to 2024, and currently serves as the Deputy Coordinator of Psychosocial Support in the same organization.
Viktorija Grezeniene
Valakampiu Social Support Facility - Lithuania
Areas of Focus: Social services for people with intellectual / psychosocial disability
IW topic: " Lecture and discussion about social services for people with intellectual / psychosocial disability
Language/Format: English/in person
Dr. Hedaya Hina is an assistant professor at the School of Nursing at the German Jordanian University in Amman. She has over 4 years of experience in teaching in Jordanian universities at schools of nursing. She also has clinical experience in the hospital setting, including in an adult Intensive care unit (ICU) and an oncology ICU. Additionally, she has worked in a research and evidence-based practice unit at the hospital.
Johanna Hefel
University of AS Vorarlberg - Austria
Areas of Focus: History and professionalisation of social work; loss, death and dying over a lifespan; Social work and health, autoethnography
IW topic: Autoethnography in Social Work: Potential and Limitation & Autoethnography: Becoming and Being a Part of the Academic World
Language/Format: English & German/in person
Prof. Dr. Johanna Hefel is a qualified social worker and a professor of Social Work at the University of Applied Sciences Vorarlberg in Austria (FHV). She coordinated the Master programme in Clinical social work from 2012 to 2019. She is a co-founder and president of the Austrian Academic Association of Social Work and member of various national and international associations including the European Social Work Research Association, the International Federation of Social Workers & the European Centre for Clinical Social Work.
Panagiotis Katsaroupas
To Ergastiri - Greece
Areas of Focus: Social psychology, special education, applied psychology in children and adolescents
IW topic: "To Ergastiri- 47 years focusing on the social inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities and strengthening their rights”
Language/ Format: English/in person
Lilian Masule
University of Namibia (UNAM) - Namibia
IW topic: TBD
Language/ Format: English/ Online (Hybrid)
Dr. Lilian Masule has 30 years of training and experience in the general nursing science profession, health service delivery, and occupational practice at senior and middle management levels in public hospitals and academic institutions, as well as 8 years as a lecturer at UNAM. She has successfully undergone academic and specialized professional courses in the fields of Cardiac Intensive Care, Critical care Nursing, Intensive and Trauma Care, HIV Management, and Health Professional Education. She is responsible for overall coordination of clinical practice of all nursing students. She is a Lead Nurse trainer in the Covid-19 Oxygen Therapy and Ventilation Case Management and trained over 110 nurses all over the 13 regions of Namibia from 2021-2022. She completed her PhD and passed the VIVA VOCE examination that was conducted on the 31st of October 2024.
Elize Prins
LifeLine/ ChildLine – Namibia
Areas of Focus: Human rights & the law, child protection, violence against women and children, male engagement, positive parenting
IW topic: How Lifeline/Childline contributes to Child Protection in Namibia
Language/ Format: English/ In person
Elize Prins is educated on various topics, including Human Rights and the Law, Urban Crime and Violence Prevention, Child Protection, and Gender & The Media. She is a practitioner at LifeLine/ChildLine, an internationally recognized resilience, wellbeing, and vicarious organisation focusing on mental health, capacity building supporting the Namibian Government to tackle child Protection, social and mental health issues.
Júlia Vajda
Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) – Hungary
Areas of Focus: The Shoah: How it determined the lives of survivors and their descendants, how they cope with it and how witnesses insert the Shoah into their life stories, how they remember it and talk about it.
IW topic: "I am angry with her, you see, even though she is already dead" - The Holocaust as told by an eyewitness
Language/Format: English & German/ In person
Dr. Júlia Vajda (habil, Ph.D.) is a Hungarian sociologist and psychologist. She studied mathematics, sociology and psychology at ELTE University in Budapest, and was trained there in psychoanalysis. She teaches at the Faculty of Social Sciences at ELTE University and at the University of Jewish Studies in Budapest. In her research projects she uses qualitative methods, mostly narrative interviews, the method of which she learnt from Gabriele Rosenthal.
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