Colleen Willard-Holt Author

Marcin Gierczyk is a Doctor of Social Sciences in Pedagogy and Associate Professor at the Institute of Pedagogy of the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland. He is a Crisis Intervention specialist focusing on domestic violence and child protection.. He is also an associate member of the McGill Centre for Research on Children and Families (CRCF) in Canada and an Honorary Research Fellow at the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues, School of Education, the University of Birmingham (UK).

Ewa Wojtyna is Psychiatrist, psychologist, supervisor and cognitive-behavioural psychotherapist, and Head of the Psychiatry Department at the Institute of Medical Sciences at the University of Opole.

Colleen Willard-Holt has spent 30+ years as a researcher, professor, and consultant in the field of twice-exceptionalities. She holds degrees in both education of persons with disabilities and cognitive gifts.

Ewa Bielska is an associate professor at the Institute of Pedagogy, University of Silesia. Her research focuses on the issues of interdisciplinary perspectives of trauma studies and their application in educational research, as well as the issues of resistance theories.

Dagmara Dobosz holds a doctorate in Social Science. She works at the Pedagogy Institute of the University of Silesia in Katowice (Poland). She is the author of several dozen scientific publications. Her research interests revolve around the issues of gender, human sexuality, the sexualization of culture and the well-being of children and adolescents.

Magdalenda Belza-Gajdzica is a special educator and academic teacher at the University of Silesia. She researches the experiences of students with disabilities in higher education and promotes Universal Design. She co-develops national and international projects on special education and works as an expert for the Institute of Educational Research.

Agnieszka Gromkowska-Melosik serves on the Committee of Educational Sciences, Polish Academy of Science. She is a chair of the Department of Multicultural Education and Research on Social Inequalities at the Faculty of Educational Studies at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and the Editor-in-Chief of the international Journal of Gender and Power. She is an author of 11 books, editor and co-editor of 13 books, and has written about 80 articles on sociology of education, contemporary problems of youth, multicultural society.