Speakers

The European Conference on Arts & Humanities (ECAH) is an interdisciplinary conference held alongside The European Conference on Education (ECE) and The European Conference on Language Learning (ECLL). Keynote, Featured and Spotlight Speakers will provide a variety of perspectives from different academic and professional backgrounds. Registration for either conference will allow participants to attend sessions in both.

This page provides information about presenters. For details of presentations and other programming, please visit the Programme page.

Dorina Cadar

University of Sussex, United Kingdom
Paul Chamberlain

Royal College of Art, United Kingdom
Evangelia Chrysikou

University College London (UCL), United Kingdom
Alfonso J. García-Osuna

Hofstra University, United States
Lee Jerome

Middlesex University, United Kingdom
Allison Littlejohn

University College London (UCL), United Kingdom
James W. McNally

University of Michigan & NACDA Program on Aging, United States

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Previous Speakers

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Dorina Cadar

University of Sussex, United Kingdom

Biography

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Keynote Presentation (2026) | TBA

Paul Chamberlain

Royal College of Art, United Kingdom

Biography

Dr Paul Chamberlain is Professor of Design and Co-Chair of the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design at the Royal College of Art, United Kingdom, a global leader in Inclusive Design founded in 1991. Professor Chamberlain’s research informs the design of the built environment through developing tools and methods to encourage and engender innovation and applied with a focus on health and wellbeing, disability, and ageing. His work explores the multi-sensory aspects of design and the role of artefacts that help define pertinent social questions as much as present solutions. He has led major interdisciplinary projects, won international awards for his designs, and delivered keynote lectures at leading international events. He has over 100 published texts and his work has been exhibited widely, including solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Taiwan, The WAAG Amsterdam and the Venice Architectural Biennale. Paul was recently the principal investigator of a £4m Research England funded project that focused on the 100-year life and the Future Home and was the first visiting international resident scholar of the Neutra Institute, United States. He was a member of the Art & Design, History Theory and Practice panel for the UK Research Excellence Framework 2021, was founder and director of research group Lab4Living, and is founding editor of the Design for Health Journal (Taylor and Francis).

Keynote Presentation (2026) | The 100-Year Life and Our Future Home

Evangelia Chrysikou

University College London (UCL), United Kingdom

Biography

Dr Evangelia Chrysikou, RIBA is Associate Professor within the Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction at University College London, United Kingdom, and Founder/Programme Director of the university’s MSc Healthcare Facilities. A multi-awarded RIBA architect and healthcare planner, Dr Chrysikou has published widely and won several prestigious grants and fellowships from international organisations, including Horizon 2020, UKRI, Wellcome, British Academy, Royal Society of New Zealand, and the Sasakawa Foundation. Her research interests lie at the spectrum of inclusion in relation to design, spanning across the disciplines of built environment, health, digital technologies and the social sciences. Dr Chrysikou is a member of the National Accessibility Authority, Hellenic Republic by invitation from the Greek Prime Minister, and a member of the Urban Land Institute’s (ULI) Life Sciences and Healthcare Council Leadership Committee. She was the coordinator of the Environment Section of the EIPonAHA, EU, and has worked as a consultant for international government bodies such as the Japanese MOFA, Peru Reconstruction Mechanism, and the British Government for projects related to healthcare planning and architecture. She was elected Vice-President of the Urban Public Health section of EUPHA in 2018.

Alfonso J. García-Osuna

Hofstra University, United States

Biography

Alfonso J. García-Osuna has taught at Hofstra University and at City University of NY-Kingsborough for over 35 years. He specialises in mediaeval and early modern literature, receiving his PhD (1989) from the Graduate School of the City University of New York. He has completed postdoctoral work at the University of Valladolid, Spain, has published six books, and is a frequent contributor to specialised journals. Additionally, Dr García-Osuna is the editor of the IAFOR Journal of Arts and Humanities.

Alfonso received primary and secondary education in Las Palmas in the Canary Islands, the place where his family originated and where he grew up. An avid cyclist, he has completed the Road to Santiago, an 867-kilometre route through northern Spain, eight times.

The Forum (2026) | The Role of the Arts & Humanities in Troubling Times: Part 3

Previous Presentations

Keynote Presentation (2024) | Humanities at the Helm: Mobilising Scholars to Confront the Planetary Climate Crisis

Lee Jerome

Middlesex University, United Kingdom

Biography

Professor Lee Jerome has worked in secondary schools as a history and sociology teacher, in the charity sector running citizenship projects, and in universities teaching on a variety of courses from undergraduate to doctoral programmes. His main interests are linked to citizenship education, children's rights education, and the work of teachers. He is editor of the academic journal Education, Citizenship and Social Justice and his books include England’s Citizenship Education Experiment (2012), Children’s Rights Education in Diverse Schools (2021 with Hugh Starkey), Votes at 16 (2025 with Ben Kisby) and Educating for Citizenship (forthcoming). Professor Jerome’s recent projects include leading a group of student researchers to develop proposals for the national curriculum review in England, a 3-year student survey of citizenship education in secondary schools, and an international project to explore student-led approaches to learning about divisive contemporary issues.

Keynote Presentation (2026) | TBA

Allison Littlejohn

University College London (UCL), United Kingdom

Biography

Professor Allison Littlejohn is Pro-Vice Provost for Grand Challenge Data Empowered Societies and Professor of Learning and Technology in the UCL Knowledge Lab at University College London (UCL), United Kingdom. Her research expands our understanding of the socio-technical impacts of digital transformation at work and how it impacts work and learning. Professor Littlejohn was previously Director of the UCL Knowledge Lab, University College London (2020 -2025); Dean (Learning & Teaching) at the University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (2019-20); Academic Director for Digital Innovation at the Open University, United Kingdom (2015-2019); and Professor and Director of the Caledonian Academy at Glasgow Caledonian University, United Kingdom (2006-2015). She holds the Ruth Wong Visiting Professorship at the National Institute of Education, Singapore.

Keynote Presentation (2026) | Don’t Let AI Change What it Means to Teach

James W. McNally

University of Michigan & NACDA Program on Aging, United States

Biography

Dr James W. McNally is the Emeritus Research Scientist for the NACDA Program on Aging, located in the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan, United States. He was trained initially in forensic anthropology at the University of Maryland and then in formal demography at Georgetown University. As part of this PhD work, Dr McNally was awarded the first minor degree in social gerontology from the Population Studies and Training Center at Brown University, followed by a two-year postdoctoral appointment examining policy applications of health data at Syracuse University’s Center for Policy Research. After teaching at Brown University as an Assistant Research Professor, Dr McNally directed the NACDA Program on Aging from 1998 to 2025, building an internationally recognised collection of seminal studies on the aging lifecourse, health, retirement, and international aspects of ageing. In addition to lifecourse research, he has spent much of his career addressing mechanisms to maintain and strengthen family support networks, focusing on the needs of frail or cognitively impaired elders, presenting on these issues in the United States and internationally. Dr McNally serves on the International Academic Board of IAFOR.

Special Address (2026) | EGen2026 Special Address

Previous Presentations

Special Seminar Session (2024) | An Introduction to the IAFOR Undergraduate Research Symposium (IURS)