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Agnieszka Pedrak
Trinity College Dublin
Dr Agnieszka Pedrak holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics from Trinity College Dublin. With a BA (Hons) in English Studies, specialising in translation and interpreting, a BA and an MA in Polish Studies focused on linguistics and communication, and a postgraduate diploma in Education, she has a solid background in language education. Her research examines heritage language maintenance and pedagogy in migration contexts, particularly exploring how participation in complementary schooling can influence identity negotiation and the transmission of heritage language and culture. Since 2016, she has been dedicated to teaching languages in Ireland, actively designing and implementing initiatives promoting bilingualism both locally and online, with a specific focus on approaches that support language teaching and learning in diverse environments.
Amy Connery
Trinity College Dublin
Dr. Amy Connery is an Assistant Professor in Speech and Language Pathology in the Department of Clinical Speech and Language Studies
at Trinity College Dublin. She has over ten years of clinical experience working in paediatric primary care and disability settings.
Her current research interests include effective stuttering interventions for both children and adults, PPI (Public and Patient Involvement), multi-stakeholder co-design of interventions, and evidence-based practice. She has published her work in several international
journals,
and
frequently
presents her work at national and international conferences.
Dr. Amy Connery is an Assistant Professor in Speech and Language Pathology in the Department of Clinical Speech and Language Studies
at Trinity College Dublin. She has over ten years of clinical experience working in paediatric primary care and disability settings.
Her current research interests include effective stuttering interventions for both children and adults, PPI (Public and Patient Involvement), multi-stakeholder co-design of interventions, and evidence-based practice. She has published her work in several international
journals,
and
frequently
presents her work at national and international conferences.
Ana Molina
Asociación Artística-Sociocultural Mestiza (Donostia – San Sebastián)
President and co-founder (2008) of the Mestiza Artistic and Socio-Cultural Association. Founder of the Txikikids Corner programme, which promotes a love of reading, culture, art, nature and multilingualism in early childhood. Coordinator and main promoter of the Bookstart Euskadi programme, and the Mestiza Association's representative on the EURead European consortium for the promotion of reading.
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Presidenta y cofundadora (2008) de la Asociación Artística y Sociocultural Mestiza. Fundadora del programa Txikikids Corner, que fomenta el amor por la lectura, la cultura, el arte, la naturaleza y el multilingüismo en la primera infancia. Coordinadora y principal impulsora del programa Bookstart Euskadi, y representante de la Asociación Mestiza en el consorcio europeo EURead para la promoción de la lectura.
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Mestiza Elkarte Artistiko-Soziokulturalaren presidentea eta sortzailekidea (2008). Txikikids Corner programaren sortzailea; programa horren bidez, irakurzaletasuna, kultura, artea, natura eta eleaniztasuna sustatzen dira haurtzaro goiztiarrean. Bookstart Euskadi programaren koordinatzailea eta sustatzaile nagusia, eta Mestiza Elkartearen ordezkaria EURead irakurzaletasuna bultzatzeko Europako kontsortzioan.
Andrea Khalfaoui-Larrañaga
University of the Basque Country
Andrea Khalfaoui Larrañaga (PhD in Education) is a Lecturer at the Faculty of Education of the University of the Basque Country. She was a visiting researcher at the Moray House School of Education and Sport, University of Edinburgh (2021–2023), where she collaborated with the Children and Young People Research Hub. Andrea has participated in competitive research projects focused on promoting academic achievement and wellbeing among vulnerable students, particularly in early childhood education. She is also a member of the Mestiza Sociocultural Association, which develops multilingual storytelling activities for children aged 0–5, and has recently partnered with EU Read.
Cassie Smith Christmas
University of Galway
Dr. Cassie Smith-Christmas is a Lecturer in Children’s Studies at the University of Galway. Her research interests lie in children’s roles in minority language revitalisation, and publications include a monograph Family Language Policy: Maintaining an Endangered Language in the Home (Palgrave, 2016). Funded fellowships include the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions; the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage; and the Taighde Éireann/Research Ireland, most recently for her project GAELFAM, which looks at multilingual families living in Irish Gaeltacht areas.
Chiel van der Veen
Windesheim University of Applied Sciences
Chiel van der Veen is Professor (Lector) of Urban Care & Education at Windesheim University of Applied Sciences in Almere, the Netherlands, and guest researcher in Educational Sciences at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. His research focuses on how education can support the development, well-being and equal opportunties of all children and young people. In his PhD, he studied the effect of dialogic classroom talk on young children’s language development. Since then, he has expanded his work to include play-based learning, social relationships, and dialogic writing. He currently leads stronger2gether, a six-year national research project investigating social relationships, flourishing, and mental well-being among adolescents in vocational and special education.
Durk Gorter
University of the Basque Country
Durk Gorter, a distinguished scholar in the field of multilingualism, held the position of Ikerbasque research professor at the University of the Basque Country. He led the Donostia Research group on Education And Multilingualism (DREAM), contributing significantly to research on multilingual education, European minority languages, and linguistic landscapes. His contributions include several books such as “The handbook of Linguistic Landscapes and Multilingualism ” (2025), “A Panorama of Linguistic Landscape Studies ” (2024), “The Minority Language as a Second Language ” (2024), and “Pedagogical Translanguaging ” (2021), all co-authored with Jasone Cenoz. The book “Educational Agency and Activism in Linguistic Landscape Studies ” (2024) was co-edited with Edina Krompák.
Déirdre Kirwan
Trinity College Dublin
Déirdre Kirwan taught hearing-impaired learners and was principal of a mainstream school that catered for pupils from more than fifty linguistic and cultural backgrounds. Déirdre holds a PhD (TCD) in language education. Awards: European Ambassador for Languages (Léargas); Chevalier de l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques (French Government). Member: Dept. of Ed. Foreign Languages Advisory Group; NCCA working group on MFLs (primary); ECML panel.
Publications include: Little, D. & D. Kirwan (2019) Engaging with Linguistic Diversity: A Study of Educational Inclusion in an Irish Primary School. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/engaging-with-linguistic-diversity-9781350072039/
Little, D. & D, Kirwan (2024) Revised Edition. Language and Languages in the Primary School: Some guidelines for teachers. PPLI https://ppli.ie/ppli-primary-guidelines/
Jasone Cenoz
University of the Basque Country
Jasone Cenoz is an expert in multilingual education, minority languages, linguistic landscape, and second and third language acquisition. She has been the President of the International Association of Multilingualism and Professor of Education at the University of the Basque Country. She was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University Jaume I in 2024. She has published numerous articles and several books and has presented her research results at numerous international conferences and seminars in different parts of the world. Jasone Cenoz also collaborates with several international research agencies.
Joana Duarte
University of Groningen
Joana Duarte is professor of educational sciences and head of the teacher education departure of the University of Groningen. Her research focuses on multilingualism in education, multiliteracy development, inclusive education en global citizenship.
Joan Kiely
Marino Institute of Education
Joan has recently completed a six-year term as Dean of Education: Curriculum and Childhood at Marino Institute of Education. Joan’s responsibilities included leading the B.Ed. degree and masters’ programmes. The B.Ed. degree through the medium of Irish, (B.OID), the Professional master's in education (PME) programme and the B.Sc. in Early Childhood Education are also situated in the school of curriculum and childhood. Joan now works as a senior lecturer and lectures on Early Childhood Education on the B.Ed. and PME programmes. Joan led the M.ES in Early Childhood Education programme from 2014 until 2022 and taught modules on policy and practice in early childhood and language and literacy in early childhood. She now supports the new programme leader, Dr. Clara Fiorentini, in her role. Joan’s research interests include looking at the voice of the child, play, oral language development, early literacy, and parental involvement in their children’s education.
Maria Dimitropoulou
Trinity College Dublin
I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the LIFELANGS project at Trinity College Dublin. LIFELANGS is a research project that examines shared languages and identities across the island of Ireland. It brings together researchers from Trinity College Dublin and Queen’s University Belfast under the North South Research Programme (NSRP). I completed my PhD at the Centre for Language and Communication Studies at Trinity College Dublin in 2025. My thesis is titled “It’s just nice having something that you kind of belong to”: A qualitative study of Irish-speaking families. I also hold an MPhil in Applied Linguistics from Trinity College Dublin and a BA (Hons) in English Language and Literature from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
Mayra Mascareno Lara
University of Groningen
Dr. Mayra Mascareño Lara is an assistant professor at the department of Educational Sciences, University of Groningen, with a PhD (cum laude) from the same university. Her work strives at understanding learning and educational processes as situated in context and emergent in human interaction. One special area of attention in Mayra’s research is language and literacy development both at home and at school, with emphasis on multilingualism, ethnic and socioeconomic brackgrounds. Mayra's work has a strong theoretical base on sociocultural and bioecological theories, and she has gathered a wide methodological expertise in quantitative and qualitative research methods. She is a core member of the centre of expertise Interactions in the Diverse Classroom.
Myrte Gosen
University of Groningen
Myrte Gosen is assistant professor at the Center for Language and Cognition Groningen of the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. She received her Ph.D. from the same university in 2012. Her dissertation is titled ‘Tracing Learning in Interaction. An Analysis of Shared Reading of Picture Books at Kindergarten’. This PhD research already illustrates her interest in young children’s reading and literacy practices. This interest is for instance also illustrated by her contribution to the handbook ‘Talking with Children. A Handbook on Interaction in Early Childhood Education’ for which she co-authored the chapter ‘Literacy’. With her research on classroom interactions in general and talking about texts in particular, Myrte Gosen is working at the interface between education and communication.
Rocío García Carrión
University of Deusto - Ikerbasque
Rocío García-Carrión is an Ikerbasque Research Professor at the University of Deusto. Her research focuses on school-based interventions informed by the Science of Learning and Development, dialogic practices, and the inclusion of vulnerable groups. She has led and contributed to numerous national and international research projects, including coordinating the Horizon Europe SCIREARLY project, which examined evidence-informed policies and practices to improve academic achievement, wellbeing, and the prevention of early school leaving. She has published extensively in international journals and actively disseminates research to inform educational policy and practice. She currently serves as Secretary General of the World Education Research Association (WERA).
Roel van Steensel
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Roel van Steensel is a professor of Reading Behavior at VU University Amsterdam and a professor of Reading and Education at Erasmus University Rotterdam. His research interests lie in the development of reading proficiency, behavior, and motivation from the
early stages of literacy acquisition to primary, secondary, and higher education. He examines how this development is affected by contextual factors, such as school and the home.
Saioa Landa-Lazkano
Orokieta Herri Eskola, Zarautz
My name is Saioa Landa Lazkano. I was born in Zarautz in 1976. I studied at the University of the Basque Country, where I completed my degree in Teaching, specializing in Special Educational Needs. After working in several different schools, I joined Orokieta Herri Eskola in 2007. Since 2010, I have been a member of the school's leadership team, a role I continue to hold today.
Tialda Hoogeveen
Author
Tialda Hoogeveen (1974) was in 2023, 2024 en 2025 Berneboeke-ambassadeur, ambassadeur van het Friese kinderboek. Ze schrijft in het Fries en in het Nederlands, voor kinderen en volwassenen, fictie, non-fictie en poëzie
www.tialdahoogeveen.nl