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Caroline Brown
Caroline Brown has a long-standing interest in healthy and sustainable development which runs through her research and teaching practice. For several years Caroline worked at the WHO Healthy Cities Collaborating Centre in Bristol, and is now at The Urban Institute at Heriot-Watt University. Over the last 5 years she has supervised 4 post-graduate researchers undertaking doctoral research on children in the city. Caroline is an academic and chartered town planner.
Ariane de Lannoy
Ariane de Lannoy focus is on child and youth development in the complex context of post-apartheid South Africa. The majority of her work is set in highly urbanised contexts. Her research is guided by questions around the multiple vulnerabilities that shape the lives of young South Africans, their subjective experiences of poverty, inequality and transformation, and the many ways in which they take up agency within that context
Deborah McCracken
Deborah McCracken is a full-time PhD student at Heriot-Watt University, researching associations between urban greenspace and the health and wellbeing of children. She holds a first-class BSc (Hons) in Psychology with Human Health as well as an MSc (Distinction) in Urban and Regional Planning. Her research centres on the relationship between people’s health and wellbeing and the sustainable development of urban environments. Deborah is also the Social Media Editor for Cities & Health.
Tim Gill
Tim Gill is a global advocate for children’s outdoor play and mobility. His book No Fear: Growing up in a risk-averse society was published in 2007. He is a Built Environment Enabler for the UK Design Council, and in 2017 was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to study child-friendly urban planning. He holds degrees from Oxford University and London University, and an honorary doctorate from Edge Hill University. He is a former director of the Children’s Play Council (now Play England). His website is http://www.rethinkingchildhood.com.
Marcus Grant
Marcus Grant background is ecology, landscape architecture and urban design. Working alongside the WHO European Healthy Cities Network for over 20 years, he has supported the WHO with Age-Friendly City guidelines and city evaluation. Recently work includes supporting the WHO and UN-Habitat in linking urban health objectives with the Sustainable Development Goals. As a member of the scientific board of the National Institute for Public Health Research UK, he has been involved in evaluating and funding complex public health interventions.
Hannah Wright
Hannah Wright is an urban planner and knowledge integrator with international expertise in child-friendly planning and design. Hannah cares about integrating early childhood & urban planning practice and research to create safe, green and healthy places that enable children and families to thrive. In her work Hannah has turned research into real interventions for city dwellers. This includes being: lead author of Arup’s Cities Alive: Designing for urban childhoods; an Urban95 advisor; and an urban planner for child-friendly masterplans, mobility strategy and tactical interventions. Hannah studied MPlan Urban Studies and Planning at the University of Sheffield, UK. She lives and works in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Samuel Williams
Samuel Williams is a child-friendly cities design and engagement specialist, currently working as an independent consultant for the Capital of Children in Denmark. This project, which is funded by both the LEGO Foundation and Billund municipality, aims to engage the whole community, young and old, through co-creation. Sam has a background in fine art and landscape architecture. While at Arup he initiated their Designing for Urban Childhoods report.
