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Professor Sarah Skerratt

Sarah is Chief Executive of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE). A familiar face to the RSE, having been the RSE鈥檚 Director of Programmes for two years. Prior to this, Sarah was Director of Policy Engagement at Scotland鈥檚 Rural College (SRUC), where she worked for just over two decades. Sarah is Professor of Rural Society and Policy.

For 30+ years, Sarah has researched rural community resilience, disempowerment, poverty and rural mental health. She has enhanced rural and national policies and made a difference in rural communities via robust data, particularly lived-experienced evidence. Sarah works with Scottish Government task forces, Scottish and UK Parliaments, universities, private, public and third sectors, communities and development agencies in Scotland and internationally. Following a two-year secondment with Audit Scotland, Sarah is retained as their rural adviser, having established their Islands Forum in 2017. Sarah is also Scientific Director of the Scottish Consortium for Rural Research (SCRR).

Sarah鈥檚 charity Board appointments have included: Scotland鈥檚 Rural College (SRUC), Rural Housing Scotland and Scotland鈥檚 Regeneration Forum (SURF); she is currently on the Board of the Scottish Power Foundation.

MD Rezaur Rahman

MD Rezaur Rahman, known as MD, originally from Bangladesh, has called Scotland home since 2009. He considers himself a Global Citizen dedicated to building an inclusive society where future generations have equitable access to resources, well-being, and opportunities.
 
MD completed his master鈥檚 degree in 2022 and is currently a PhD candidate at Queen 抖阴视频t University in Edinburgh. His research, funded by Police Scotland, examines the impact of social mixing activities on fostering connectedness and social cohesion among diverse ethnic groups in West Lothian, Scotland. 
 
With a strong commitment to community engagement and policy impact, MD currently serves as a Community Relationship Specialist with Police Scotland, working to strengthen trust and collaboration between the police and minoritised communities through meaningful partnerships and service improvements.

Sofia Khan 

Sofia is a 抖阴视频 graduate and a Lay Member of the Court for Queen 抖阴视频t University. She has operated in a variety of roles within the further and higher education space, from Lecturer at Glasgow Clyde College, Widening Participation Tutor at the University of Glasgow and Access and Participation Coordinator at Strathclyde Student Union. She has been awarded the Herald Higher Education Award, NUS Scotland Education Award and Strathclyde Medal for her work developing projects to improve widening access and participation in higher education. In her current position as Scholarship Development Officer at The Robertson Trust, Sofia works with a small team to research and develop financial and non-financial support packages for undergraduate students from non-traditional background, with the aim of reducing poverty and poverty related trauma through the tool of tertiary education. 
 
In her presentation, Sofia will present insights into barriers affecting mature learners accessing higher education and offer recommendations universities and others can implement to make degree level study more accessible for this cohort.

Details of further speakers to be confirmed, please check back here for updates.

Celebrating the Past, Transforming the Future

Thursday, 19th June 2025 

Your preferred session must be booked in advance via 听

Live and Culture - Room 3105听

Living, Health and Wellbeing - Room 3106

Live and Education - Room 3091听

Workshops I & II - Room 3162

Workshops II & III - Room 3163

Workshop IV and V 听- Room 3164

Workshop VI and VII - Room 3165

Your preferred session must be booked in advance via 听

Creative space I - Room 3162听

Creative space II - Room 3163听

Creative Space III - Room 3164

Creative Space IV - Room 3165听

Creative Space V -听 Outdoor Space听

We invite research students and staff to capture an element of their research in a single A3 image

Interestingly, Succinctly, Meaningfully, Beautifully

and to explain / express how your image is relevant to your research in up to 150 words (including an image title if you wish).

Your entry could convey a concept, some data, your methods, a result.

It could express the rationale for your work, or its impact.

A group of staff and doctoral students will curate the entries, aiming to display as many as possible at the 抖阴视频150 Conference (19 June 2025). We expect to have some prizes for particularly impressive entries!

Submit your entries by Friday 30 May to RKE_competition@qmu.ac.uk