Dr. Rogelio Roberto Marcial Vázquez holds a PhD in Social Science from the College of Jalisco, Mexico. He has been a lecturer and researcher at the College of Jalisco since 1993, heading a research project on youth culture in the metropolitan area of Guadalajara (Jalisco, Mexico). He is a lecturer on the postgraduate programmes of the College of Jalisco, as well as on the degree and postgraduate programmes of the University of Guadalajara.
He was the Coordinator of the PhD Programme in Social Science and the Academic Director of the College of Jalisco. Some of his most noteworthy publications are: Desde la esquina se domina (Controlling from the corner), Jóvenes y presencia colectiva (Young people and collective presence), La banda rifa (The Rifa gang) and Andamos como andamos porque somos como somos: culturas juveniles en Guadalajara (We're in the state we're in because of the way we are: youth culture in Guadalajara).
He is a member of the National System of Researchers (Level 2), of the Ibero-American Youth Research Council and of the Jalisco Network of Youth Researchers. He is also a Member of the Scientific Committee of the Research Unit for Epidemiology and Youth Healthcare Services of the Mexican Social Security Institute.
Worked as a researcher in the department of social welfare studies at Ghent University until the end of 2010 and currently works for Uit De Marge, an umbrella organisation for youth work initiatives working with vulnerable young people in Flanders, Belgium. His focus is on social pedagogy as a perspective on social work and youth and community work. He obtained his PhD with a study on the history of youth work in Flanders and its connections to developments in the other social professions and in other European countries. Filip Coussée specialises in local-level youth participation, social policy planning and regional/European youth work history, practice and policy. He serves as a consultant for government policy on youth at Flemish and local levels. Recent research focused on the history of youth work throughout Europe, the study of youth policy interventions and the way youth policy categorises (and marginalises) young people.
PROFESSOR DR. MIGUEL MELENDRO
Miguel Melendro holds a PhD in Education from the Spanish National University for Distance Education (UNED). He is a contract lecturer (PhD) of the Department of Theory of Education and Social Pedagogy at the Education Faculty of the UNED, Deputy Vice Chancellor for Research Transfer, Coordinator of the Master’s Degree in Educational Intervention in Social Contexts, Director of the Master’s Degree in Socio-Educational Action with Vulnerable Groups: Family, Childhood, Adolescence and Youth, and Director of the Research and Training Institute for Social Sustainability (ISOS Foundation).
He has published widely in the field of pedagogy and social education; socio-educational intervention with children, adolescents and youths with social difficulties; environmental and eco-social education, and education for sustainable development; complex thinking; and the theory of systems applied in the field of education.
He has directed and participated in several research projects on these topics, funded by public and private entities.
He has participated as a lecturer and speaker at over 100 seminars, courses, congresses and conferences, both national and international.
He has worked as a pedagogue and social educator in various public bodies and centres.
He has participated in several international projects related to educational intervention in social contexts and has been a visiting lecturer at the University of Liège (Belgium), the University of Quebec in Montréal (UQAM, Canada), the University of Sonora (Hermosillo, Mexico), the National University of Comahue (Argentina) and the Uninorte and USTA universities (Barranquilla and Bogota, Colombia).

Alan Smith is Head of Youth and Community Work at Leeds Beckett University, England, one of the largest providers of professional education and training for youth and community workers in the United Kingdom. He has been teaching in Higher Education for more than 22 years, and in 2015 was awarded one of 55 prestigious National Teaching Fellowships by the Higher Education Academy. His team currently deliver a range of undergraduate and postgraduate provision, as well as supporting and coordinating a number of trans-European initiatives in support of street work, youth work and related professions.
Alan is currently Vice Chair of the Education and Training Standards committee at the National Youth Agency for England, which oversees professional qualifying courses and their validation, and is Co-Chair of the Joint Education and Training Standards committee for England, Scotland, Wales and All-Ireland. He has been a key member of the Community and Youth Work Training Agencies Group (TAG) - the professional association for lecturers in youth and community work, and served as it's Secretary for many years, and 3 years as Chair of the Association.
Despite the many challenges facing the youth and community work sector in England in recent years, Alan has continued to work with national bodies and Government departments, to try and protect professional youth and community work education and training, having worked with the previous Labour Government policy-makers on the Transforming Youth Work and Children's Workforce agendas. His main area of teaching and research continues to be the history of youth and community work, and the education and training of professional workers with a focus on professional identity. http://www.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/staff/alan-smith/

PROFESSOR DIVINA FRAU
A former student of the Ecole Normale Supérieure and an associate professor of the University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle, Divina Frau-Meigs holds degrees from the Sorbonne University, Stanford University and the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. She has also been awarded Fulbright and Lavoisier scholarships. As a media sociologist, she has specialised in risky behaviours and content, as well as problems regarding the reception and use of information technology. She holds the UNESCO Chair in “evolving in the era of sustainable digital development: structuring uses and learning to control the information culture” and directs ECO, a European educational project focused on creating MOOCs for educational purposes. Through the ANR TRANSLIT research project on the convergence of education and media, she studies youth practices in this area.
Her work on the issues of cultural diversity, learning, education and media regulation, focuses on the impact of media in the process of socialisation of young people. As an invited expert of UNESCO, the European Union, the Council of Europe and governmental bodies in France and abroad, she promotes human rights and ethics within the media environment, and contributes to the development of the recent European recommendations on education in the media, the autonomy of young people in networks, the filtering systems of the information society and human dignity in the mass media environment.
http://www.divina-frau-meigs.fr/