Email : sam.bamkin@gmail.com
Organization : De Montfort University
Role : Lecturer; Thinker
Interests : Development (personal; efficacy; confidence; skills), Critical Thinking, Creative Thinking, Langauge, Social progress, RSA

Organization : feelancer
Role : listener/learner/facilitator
Interests : appreciative inquiry, apps, asset map, careers training and education, citizen engagement, citizen engagement/voice, citizen journalism, citizenship, city space, civic empowerment and deliberative democracy, co-creation, co-design, co-learining, co-working, coaching, collaboration, commons, communities of practice, community development, community mapping, community media, complexity, contemporary art and culture, counselling, creating, data visualisation, design-thinking, development (personal; efficacy; confidence; skills), dancing, education, general innovation around making the environment more accessible for everyone, hackspace, healing arts, interaction design, lifelong learning, life skills, life development, local, mapping, mental health, micro-volunteering, micro enterprise, motivation, neighbourhood, new forms and styles of work, open government, organisational behaviour, participative design., performing arts, personal development, pop up shops, prototyping, service design, social algorithms, social enterprises, social innovation camp, social work, sustainable social innovation and design research. specialising in consumer behaviours online and providing new collaborative environments for both corporations and consumers. following the belief that the more complex the world becomes the more creative we need to be and that for a sustainable future and business environment what is required is the ability to be creative, temporary accommodation, town centres, transparency, visualisation, volunteerism, wellbeing

Email : themagicwillhappen@gmail.com
Organization : Rise Up UK
Role : Founder
Interests : business startups, Benefits Camp, Disability, Social Enterprise, Micro Enterprise, Disabled People User Led Organisation, development (personal; efficacy; confidence; skills), digital inclusion, digital campaigning, designer, FutureGov, digital innovation, disabled people, disability arts, work creation, writing, welfare reform, welfare to work, web development, web technology, web design, web accessibility, visual arts, using ideas and evidence to drive social innovation, social justice, social innvoation, making a difference, internet solutions, interactivism, interactive design, innovation for inclusion, innovation - through the use of technology., information technology, graphic design, government, Mental Health, Invisible Illness, crowdfunding, design thinking, design for social and economic renewal, digital literacy, digital technology, disabled, empowerment, entepreneur, enterprise development, equal opportunities