KEYNOTE SPEAKERS ****************************************************************************************** * ****************************************************************************************** Prof. Michal Molcho, Dept. of Children's Studies, NUI Galway is a world-renowned expert in founded the Department of Children's Studies at NUI Galway in line with the UN Convention department in Europe with a child-centred, multidisciplinary perspective. With her sociolo with NMRs, she is an excellent co-supervisor of the ENCOUNTER. [ URL "https://encounter.me Prof. Kay Tisdall is Professor of Childhood Policy at the University of Edinburgh. She is …nts [ URL "https://www.ed.ac.uk/education/rke/our-research/children-young-people/childhoo School of Education and Sport. Her policy, academic and teaching work is centred around ch collaborative research with children, young people and adults on such as areas as children for young children, young people’s mental health, and children’s participation and activis teams in countries ranging from Brazil, Canada, Eswatini, India, Palestine, and South Afri Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, the European Commission, Global She has co-authored a new advanced textbook, Critical Childhood Studies: Global Perspectiv Professor Marek Tesar is Head of School of Learning Development and Professional Practice, of Education and Social Work, University of Auckland. He is also the director of Centre fo is focused on early childhood education in both New Zealand as well as in cross-country co educational policy, philosophy, pedagogy, methodology and curriculum, and draws on his bac as a leader of two leading learned societies in his fields; he chairs the Steering Committ (RECE), and is elected President of Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia (PESA). work with a practical focus on the everyday lives of children and their childhoods in Aote 200 peer-reviewed publications, and his scholarly work has received many prestigious natio educational book series with renowned publishers, is Editor of 6 academic journals, and si Marek led a team of international and local experts in Indonesia to establish a research c care and parenting, that serves the South-East Asia region (SEAMEO). While his research is experience and knowledge of educational systems more generally. Since 2018, Marek has been to deliver a curriculum framework, and teaching and parenting programmes in China. In 2020 to provide expertise on future research and development initiatives and programmes, and en Southeast Asia. Doctor Lenka Vochocová is a lecturer and researcher at the Department of Media Studies, Fa where she graduated in journalism and media studies. Her research interests cover the fiel studies and public sphere theories. She currently studies political participation in the s aspects of online deliberation, polarisation of the online public sphere and discursive ex been a member of the Gender expert chamber of the Czech Republic since 2015. She regularly research teams of both domestic (Czech Science Foundation) and international projects (COS Lenka is also member of the PolCoRe group: www.polcore.cz [ URL "http://www.polcore.cz/"]