Pernille Holm is a Danish visual artist and educator based in London and Kent. Since obtaining a PhD in Fine Art from Goldsmith College in 2006, she has dedicated a large part of her professional life to teaching art and design. Pernille is a self-confessed art fanatic, and never tires of talking about and looking at art, as well as creating a dialogue with her students. As an artist, Pernille has exhibited widely across Britain and in Europe, working with a variety of media, including drawing, printmaking, photography, video, and installation.

Darko Kokic is a multimedia practitioner and graphic design lecturer at Arden University, and takes great pride in sharing his knowledge and experience to a worldwide student audience. With over ten years of in-class lecturing experience, Darko has developed and taught several unique courses in a variety of creative fields. He also has more than a decade of practical expertise in the areas of visual communications design, advertising, motion graphics, animation, and digital video.

Holly Stokes is a lecturer in psychology at Arden University. Her research interests lie within developmental and educational psychology. She is particularly interested in how we can use play to facilitate both development and learning, and the barriers which prevent both teachers and parents from implementing play within the school and home. Her other main area of interest is in the lived experiences of those with developmental disorders, specifically Autism Spectrum Disorder.

Kieron Rooney is a lecturer at Arden University with a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a master’s in health psychology. He has a broad set of interests, but his real passion lies in mindfulness, stress and anxiety, and neuroscience. How can we better navigate to what is 'right' versus what is 'easy', and what stands in our way when we try to? Those are the questions that drive his interest in psychology from an academic and personal perspective, and form the basis of his research.

Charmaine Ricki-Lawrence is an associate lecturer with Arden University, and previously taught psychology for 21 years within a variety of educational settings. More recently, her teaching has focused on developmental psychology. Charmaine’s research interests centre on pedagogy, mental health, and well-being. As an early stage researcher, her work has specifically entailed investigations into the perceptions of self-harm in adolescents and the implementation of the special educational needs and disabilities code of practice in schools and colleges.

Dr. Sue Pattison is an academic supervisor for BSc and MSc research projects. Sue has a background in teaching and researching internationally, with an interest in the mental health and well-being of children and young people. She has worked with several governments and education departments including Wales, Northern Ireland, Turkey, Kenya, Hong Kong and the Gambia, and her research was instrumental in getting a counsellor into every school in Wales and Northern Ireland.

Emily Blakemore is the psychology experimental officer at Arden University. Her role is vast but includes being the editor of the school newsletter and managing the Arden Psychology Twitter page among other various engagement projects. Emily graduated with a BSc in Psychology with Criminology but has found that her interests lie firmly within the health aspect of psychology which motivated her to undertake an MSc in Health Psychology.