Key Speakers

Professor Liz Grant

Liz is Assistant Principal Global Health, Professor of Global Health and Development and Director of the Global Health Academy, one of five Global Academies that span the whole of the University.

Liz has led a number of online teaching initiatives, co-directing the Partnership online Masters in Family Medicine, and the MSc Global eHealth. She also directs the Certificate in Global Health Challenges, one of the three certificates which forms part of the MSc in Global Challenges, a training programme delivered through a collaboration between the University's Global Academies. Liz’s research and practice focuses on the value base required for delivery of the Sustainable Development Goals, strengthening and integrating palliative care in low income country health systems, and the intersection of faith and health particular in relation to Planetary Health.

Liz is a Board Director for the Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH), and serves on the Boards of the World Federation of Academic Institutes of Global Health, the Editorial Council of the Journal for Global Health and the Advisory Executive for the Scottish Government Global Health Collaborative. Previously Liz was the Senior Health Advisor for the International Development Division of the Scottish Government. Liz worked as a Community Health Advisor in Kenya for a number of years.

Dr Stacey Hunter

Dr Stacey Hunter is a design curator and the founder of Local Heroes - a curatorial agency connecting audiences with exceptional Scottish design. In August 2016 Local Heroes presented a major exhibition of newly commissioned Scottish design souvenirs at Edinburgh Airport. A key part of Scotland’s Year of Innovation, Architecture and Design, Local Heroes presented contemporary design to a global audience spanning 120 different locations and three continents. With over 15 years experience of creative production in the design and architecture sector in Scotland and abroad, Hunter's expertise lies in developing programmes to promote design locally and internationally through exhibitions, events, symposia and cultural projects. She was recently recognised by the V&A Museum of Design Dundee who named her one of their Design Champions in August 2017. Hunter’s doctoral thesis in architecture is the first major review of Scotland's emergent New Urbanism (University of Edinburgh, 2015). Stacey’s recent articles on design and craft are on her website at staceyhunter.co.uk.