Monica Magadi is Professor of Social Research and Population Health at the University of Hull. She focuses on international empirical research in the area of social science and health. She has published extensively on reproductive health in sub-Saharan Africa, including maternal/child health, HIV/AIDS, and adolescent sexual and reproductive health. With a background in statistics and demography, she has an inclination towards quantitative research methods, including multilevel modelling. However, she has experience in qualitative social research as well, and has implemented a number of reproductive health research projects utilizing mixed methods.
Petra Rust is trained in Nutritional Sciences. She has long teaching and research experiences. She is teaching basics on nutritional sciences, dietetics and nutrition throughout the lifecycle. Her expertise includes monitoring of nutrition and health status (co-author of the Austrian Nutrition Reports); nutrition information and communication (CHANCE - Community Health Management to Enhance Behaviour guideline; NUTGECS – a nutrition guide for early childhood active stakeholders). She has coordinated several national projects and has participated in numerous international projects. She leads the task force group of the Austrian national action plan on nutrition which focuses on communal feeding, is board member of the Austrian Society of Nutrition and member of the scientific advisory board of Fonds Gesundes Österreich (FGÖ).
Mojca Gabrijelčič Blenkuš is a medical doctor and a specialist in public health. She also has a PhD in social sciences. Her fields of interest and expertise are nutrition, physical activity, and in last few years, aging and frailty. Today, she is mostly involved in policy and programme development, and in research projects. Her main academic interest is in public policies; she holds assistant professorship at the Faculty of Health Sciences where she teaches health promotion theory and health in all policies. She is Senior Advisor at National Public Health Institute in Slovenia (NIJZ) and since 2018 president of the EuroHealthNet.
Eva Selenko (Featured Workshop) is a Senior Lecturer at the Work and Organisation Academic group of the School of Business and Economics/ Loghborough University. She holds an MSc in Social and Organisational Psychology from the University of Groningen, NL, a doctorate in Psychology from the University of Graz and has recently gained Habilitation at the University of Linz (both: Austria). Eva’s research interests centre on precarious employment situations and how these affect well-being, performance and non-work related behaviour. In her research she aims to apply psychological theories to the understanding of employment related issues. Eva is a member of several national and international bodies (e.g. SIOP, EAWOP, the German DGPS, CIPD…) and also acts as associate editor for Applied Psychology: An International Review (ABS list ranked 3).