Daniela DeBono
Senior Lecturer, University of Malta

Daniela DeBono is a Resident Academic at the University of Malta. She is also an Affiliate of the Malmö Institute for the Studies of Migration, Welfare and Diversity (MIM). Previously she was Associate Professor in International Migration and Ethnic Relations at the Department of Global Political Studies, Malmö University. She held a Marie Curie COFAS Research Fellowship at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute and was a Research Fellow at MIM. She was awarded a doctorate from the University of Sussex, where she was based at the Sussex Centre for Migration Research; and the Associate Professorship from Malmö University. She has conducted long-term ethnographic research on irregularised migration across the Mediterranean, border control and management in Malta, Lampedusa and Western Sicily. She also undertook an ethnographic study on deportation from Sweden. In relation to these projects, she has published on irregularised migration in the Mediterranean, hospitality and humanitarianism in the immigration field, on return and deportation from the EU, on citizenship and on children's rights.

Daniela is the country expert for Malta at the Global Citizenship Observatory, European University Institute and has authored a series of reports on citizenship law and policy, naturalisation and access to electoral rights.

Stefan Priebe
Professor of Social & Community Psychiatry, Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom

Stefan Priebe graduated in Psychology and Medicine, and qualified as Neurologist, Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist. He was Head of the Department of Social Psychiatry at the Free University Berlin, and since 1997 has been Professor for Social and Community Psychiatry at Queen Mary, University of London (QMUL). He is also Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Mental Health Service Development and the NIHR Global Health Research Group for Developing Psycho-Social Interventions.

He heads a research group in East London which runs several programmes focusing on understanding and utilising social interactions to reduce mental distress. In this research both quantitative and qualitative methods have been extensively used.  

William L. (Bill) Randall 
Professor of Gerontology, St. Thomas University (STU) in Fredericton, Canada

William (Bill) Randall is Professor of Gerontology at St. Thomas University, New Brunswick, Canada. A graduate of Harvard University, Princeton Theological Seminary, and the University of Toronto, he has helped to pioneer a unique approach to the study of aging known as Narrative Gerontology. Principal co-organizer of three international conferences called Narrative Matters (in 2002, 2004, and 2010), and co-editor of the online journal, Narrative Works, he is author or co-author of over 60 publications, including the books: The Stories We Are (University of Toronto Press, 1995/2014), Reading Our Lives (Oxford University Press, 2008), and The Narrative Complexity of Ordinary Life: Tales from the Coffee Shop (Oxford 2015). Outside of his native Canada, he has presented on his research to colleagues in the US, the UK, the Netherlands, Sweden, Germany, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, France, The Czech Republic, and Spain. Among his more recent research interests are “narrative resilience” in later life and “narrative care” in promoting emotional well-being among older adults.