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PROGRAM, KEYNOTE SPEAKERS & PROCEEDINGS | |
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS |
Professor Charles Henderson |
Dr. Charles Henderson is a Professor at Western Michigan University (WMU), with a joint appointment between the Physics Department and the WMU Mallinson Institute for Science Education. He is the Director of the Mallinson Institute and co-Founder and co-Director of the WMU Center for Research on Instructional Change in Postsecondary Education (CRICPE). His research program focuses on understanding and promoting instructional change in higher education, with an emphasis on improving undergraduate STEM instruction. Dr. Henderson’s work has been supported by over $9M in external grants and has resulted in many publications (see https://sites.google.com/view/chenderson). He is a Fulbright Scholar and a Fellow of the American Physical Society. Dr. Henderson is the senior editor for the journal Physical Review Physics Education Research and has served on two National Academy of Sciences Committees: Undergraduate Physics Education Research and Implementation, and Developing Indicators for Undergraduate STEM Education. |
Professor John Williams |
Dr. John Williams is a Professor of Education and the Director of Graduate Studies in the School of Education at Curtin University in Perth, Western Australia, where he teaches and supervises research students in STEM and technology education. Apart from Australia, he has worked and studied in a number of African and Indian Ocean countries and in New Zealand and the United States. His current research interests include STEM, mentoring beginning teachers, PCK and electronic assessment of performance. He regularly presents at international and national conferences, consults on Technology Education in a number of countries, and is a longstanding member of eight professional associations. He is the editor of the Australasian Journal of Technology Education, advisory editor of the International Journal of Technology and Design Education, series editor of the Springer Contemporary Issues in Technology Education and is on the editorial board of five other professional journals. He has authored or contributed to over 240 publications, and is elected to the International Technology and Engineering Education Association’s Academy of Fellows for prominence in the profession. |
Professor Gillian Roehrig |
Dr. Roehrig is a professor of STEM Education at the University of Minnesota. Her research explores issues of professional development for K-12 science teachers, with a focus on beginning teachers and implementation of integrated STEM learning environments. Her work in integrated STEM explores teachers' conceptions and implementation of STEM, curriculum development, and student learning in small groups during STEM lessons. She has received over $30 million in federal and state grants and published over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters. She is a former board member of the National Association of Research in Science Teaching and former president of the Association for Science Teacher Education. |
Professor Samia Khan |
Dr. Samia Khan is a professor at the University of British Columbia, Canada. She was a public-school science teacher and a recipient for the Canadian Prime Minister's Award for Teaching Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Technology. Dr. Khan completed her doctorate from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, US before joining the University of British Columbia in Canada. She has since worked to understand how to improve STEM education and science teacher education using model-based teaching. Dr. Khan has also published on case study methodology and cross-case analysis and does research on educational technologies. She has taught in e-learning environments for over 15 years. Dr. Khan has been an editorial board member for major science education journals and led international research collaborations in Rwanda, Scotland, and Southeast Asian countries. Her work has been continuously funded by Canadian, American, and UK funding agencies. Khan was formerly a Chair of Education and Associate Dean of Research in the UK and regularly provided briefings to the government on STEM education. |
Professor Lilia Halim |
Lilia Halim is a professor in Science Education at the Faculty of Education, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. Her research interest and work revolves around promoting scientific literacy through three main research thrusts; a. Investigating and developing science teachers pedagogical content knowledge (PCK), b. propagating pedagogical model for promoting innovative thinking in science and now known as STEM education and c. exploring the role of nonformal science learning in the Malaysian context. |
Professor Khajornsak Buaraphan |
Dr. Khajornsak Buaraphan is an Associate Professor of Education at the Institute for Innovative Learning (IL), Mahidol University, Thailand. Dr. Khajornsak’s area of expertise and interest includes: Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK), Technological Pedagogical and Content Knowledge (TPACK), Nature of Science (NOS), teacher education, multigrade teaching, metacognition, scientific argumentation and innovative ways of teaching and learning. He published more than 41 papers in refereed international journals and 21 proceedings. Dr. Khajornsak serves as Editorial Review Board for Journal of Science Teacher Education (JSTE) and reviewers for several international journals e.g. Teaching Education, Asia-Pacific Journal of Educational Research, Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching and Internation Asia-Pacific al Journal of Learning. In 2021, Dr. Khajornsak has been appointed from the Cabinet to be the Executive Board of the Health Systems Research Institute (HSRI), Ministry of Public Health. He also serves the professional organization as the Committee of the Science Education Association of Thailand (SEAT) |
Professor Purim Jarujamrus |
Dr. Jarujamrus is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Ubon Ratchathani University. He’s recognized in Analytical Chemistry for his frontier research achievements which revolve around the development of paper and thread as substrates for low-cost microfluidics& sensors combined with the functional nanocomposites-based methodologies for environmental and food monitoring, diagnosis as well as the context of analytical chemistry education. He has authored more than 50 peer-reviewed journal papers and/patents (h-index: 15). He has also been acting as a reviewer to many high-impact of scientific journals in Analytical Chemistry as well as being invited to give a lecture and talk at many international and national conferences. Besides, he has been a chairman of the academic laboratory competition of the National Chemistry Olympiad in 2018. He has also been recognized with awards including the Young Researcher Award (2015), NorthEastern Science Park (NESP) Innovation award (2018), Ubon Ratchathani’s staff honors and awards event for an excellently recognizable staff (2018), Research for patented award, Faculty of Science, Ubon Ratchathani University 2019 as well as awarded many research grants. |
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