Alette Willis
Alette Willis is a part-time lecturer in Counselling and Psychotherapy at the University of Edinburgh. She is past organiser of the SPS graduate training workshop on reflexivity in social research and currently runs a workshop on arts-based research practices. An oral storyteller and fiction author, her academic research focuses on how people use narratives to create sense out of their experiences and make everyday ethical decisions. She is currently Storyteller in Residence to the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland and has helped researchers from the sciences and social sciences to enrich their practices and communication strategies with story. For more information
John Harries
John is a teaching fellow in Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh. Originally from Canada, he arrived in Edinburgh in 1991 and has since made a home here. He has much experience doing ethnographic research in a variety of setting and situations. He has also taught ethnographic research methods to students of all levels. His own research interests are focussed on the politics and processes by which people remember past events and how this relates to contemporary articulations of identity, particularly in Newfoundland, Canada. For more information
Lorena Georgiadou
Lorena is Lecturer in Counselling and Psychotherapy, University of Edinburgh. She comes from Greece, has lived in Italy briefly (but long enough to fall in love with it), and has found a second home in Scotland since 2008. She is interested in intercultural/interlinguistic counselling, research and pedagogical practices, multicultural counsellor education and international student/staff experience in HEIs.
Johanna Holtan
Johanna is part of the Institute for Academic Development, University of Edinburgh and has spent the past 10 years working on development projects in Scotland, America, Jamaica, and the country Georgia leading in various capacities from project design and fundraising to volunteer management and communications. She has pioneered a number of new initiatives such CycleHack, TEDx University of Edinburgh and TEDx Portobello, Edinburgh University’s Gather Festival, the award-winning international education project EUSA Global.
Third Space wouldn’t be possible without the support and guidance from the following people:
- Areti Manataki, Informatics
- Siobhan Magee, Social Anthropology
- Dave McNaughton, www.davidmcnaughton.net
- Institute for Academic Development, University of Edinburgh
- International Office, University of Edinburgh
You can contact us at johanna.holtan at ed.ac.uk with any queries.