For the last 18 years Chetz has worked in the Institute of Educational Technology at the Open University (OU) UK in roles relating to access to higher education for disabled students. The focus of her professional practice is making distance and online learning accessible. In recent years she has led a team with two related functions: conducting technical accessibility testing of OU websites and software; and supporting Faculties in making their learning and teaching accessible and inclusive, through the Securing Greater Accessibility initiative.

Two recent projects Chetz has been involved with are, firstly, the Ed-ICT international network which explored the role that ICTs play in the experience of students with disabilities in higher education. Secondly, the Inclusive STEM Practices project which explored how inclusive processes and academic practices can be embedded within institutions, to enable equality of opportunity for students with disabilities studying STEM disciplines.

Prior to working at the OU, Chetz completed her PhD at the University of Hertfordshire, supervised by Prof Helen Petrie: her thesis examined access to the Internet for visually impaired people.

Publications: http://oro.open.ac.uk/view/person/cc933.html

Paula Ranne is the Deputy Director of the Secretariat of the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ENQA). She is responsible for several statutory and planning duties of the association, as well as for coordinating ENQA’s involvement in projects on various themes, such as the HAQAA Initiative concerning harmonisation of quality assurance and accreditation in Africa. She worked for ENQA in Helsinki, Finland, in 2008-2011 and joined the association again in 2014, following its relocation to Brussels, Belgium. Before rejoining ENQA, Ms. Ranne worked in Finland in positions relating to higher education and science policies in all academic fields. She holds a master’s degree in social sciences.

Elinor Olaussen is senior advisor at Universell, which is the National coordinator for inclusion, universal design and accessibility in Higher Education. Olaussen has background from organizational psychology, pedagogy, coaching and organizational management. She participated in the coordinator team in an Erasmus+ project about universal design for learning, and has written a Best Practice Guideline for universal design for teaching and learning, and worked to develop and share sustainable systems for individual adaptation and universal design among universities and university colleges in Norway. She has years of experience in arranging workshop for staff in HE, and has recent years participated as a guest lecturer for educational programs for new academic staff.

Sirpa Moitus is Counsellor of Evaluation at the Finnish Education Evaluation Centre FINEEC. She has over 20 years of experience in higher education evaluations. She has acted as Project Manager in numerous institutional quality audits, thematic and programme evaluations. She has also actively contributed to the development of FINEEC’s enhancement-led approach. She is currently working in a UNESCO IIEP project on Planning for Flexible Learning Pathways in Higher Education.

Helen Petrie is part of the TINEL Project team. She is Professor of Human-Computer Interaction in the Department of Computer Science at the University of York and has degrees in both psychology and computer science. She has over 20 years of internationally-recognized research on new technologies for people with disabilities and older people to improve their quality of life and well-being. She is particularly interested in inclusive education in universities and is Equality Champion for the Department of Computer Science, as well as chair of the department’s Equality and Diversity Committee, and a member of the university’s Women’s Forum.

Merja Saarela is a Principal Lecturer and Research Group Leader in Multisensory and Assistive Technology (MATEC), in Research Unit HAMK Smart, at Häme University of Applied Sciences (HAMK).

She is the project manager of the TINEL project. Currently her research focuses on accessibility in higher education, user-centered wellbeing, information multimodality and assistive technology, interaction on game and learning platforms. She is interest in social-neurocognitive learning difficulties, especially learning challenges caused by developmental disabilities, dementia, sensory deficits. She has over 20 years of experience in higher education teaching, research and administration. She has also experience in higher education evaluations.​

Håkan Eftring is part of the TINEL Project team. He is Director of Studies at the Department of Design Sciences and a teacher and researcher at the Certec division of Rehabilitation Engineering and Design at Lund University, Sweden.

Håkan has a PhD in Rehabilitation Engineering and is doing research in Universal Design, especially how individual preferences could be catered for in general hospital and school software systems, to increase inclusion.

At Lund University, he collaborates with the Accessibility Officers for students with disabilities and the Division for Higher Education Development. Together, they arrange seminars in Universal Design for Learning for directors of studies and teachers. Håkan teaches industrial design and engineering students in Universal design, Cognitive ergonomics and Rehabilitation engineering.