Assistant Dean for Research and Graduate Studies for the College of Education at the United Arab Emirates University.
Dr. Rhoda Myra Garces-Bacsal is the Assistant Dean for Research and Graduate Studies for the College of Education at the United Arab Emirates University.
Associate Professor and Associate Head in the Department of Early Childhood Education at the Education University of Hong Kong.
Dr. Alfredo Bautista is Associate Professor and Associate Head in the Department of Early Childhood Education at EdUHK. His research focuses on teaching practices and teacher professional development. Before joining EdUHK, he worked in Spain, Canada, United States, and Singapore. Alfredo currently serves as Associate Editor for ‘Journal for the Study of Education and Development’, ‘Psychology, Society, and Education’, and ‘Publicaciones’. He collaborates as Editorial Board Member with other three journals and has acted as external Reviewer for 22 journals.
Assistant Professor and Associate Head of Department of Early Childhood Education, The Education University of Hong Kong
Dr. Jin Sun is Assistant Professor and Associate Head of Department of Early Childhood Education, The Education University of Hong Kong. Her research focuses on early child development and education particularly on how family and school contexts influence children’s developmental outcomes in early years. She has also been investigating factors that contribute to social-economic gradients in early development.
Professor (Special Needs Education) with the Faculty of Educational Sciences
at the University of Helsinki,
Since early 2000 Pirjo Aunio has done research about development and learning of mathematical skills, learning difficulties in mathematics, assessment of mathematical performance and development, and mathematical and related cognitive skills interventions. She has done a unique work in developing evidence-based assessment and intervention tools to be used by teachers with funding from Ministry of Education and Culture. She has published more than 60 peer-review articles and books related to her research area. Pirjo Aunio works as a professor (Special Education, 2013->) in University of Helsinki. At the moment she has also a visiting professor (Early Childhood Education) position in University of Johannesburg (South Africa). She is in a member of editorial board for three international scientific journal and regular reviewer for international scientific journals and research grant foundations. She is currently leading research project “The developmental dynamics and interaction between motor and early numeracy skills within 3- 6 year old children” with funding from Finnish Cultural Foundation and Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture (National Sports Council), 2019-2022.