2024 keynote speakers announced

The UK Knowledge Mobilisation Forum welcomes Dr Marc Geddes and Stephanie Barnes as our keynote speakers for the 2024 Forum in Dundee.

Our practice keynote speaker will be Stephanie Barnes. Stephanie is a KM specialist from Berlin with strong international expertise in designing knowledge management strategies and frameworks, delivering knowledge management initiatives, and providing essential knowledge management toolkits. Whilst she began her career quite seriously, focusing initially on accounting, then information technology, and then knowledge management, she more recently discovered painting and fell in love, realising that she could bring art and creativity into her consulting practice, spreading the playfulness and insights that came with it to those she worked with. She eventually named what she does Radical Knowledge Management, because it goes back to the roots of how we learn: playfully, and creatively. She now focuses on helping humans in an AI mad world.

Our research keynote speaker will be Dr Marc Geddes, Senior Lecturer in Politics at the School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh, and Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Parliamentary Research, Berlin. His research interests include how people’s interpretations and everyday lives affect wider political outcomes. In 2024, Marc will begin a major new project to re-think parliaments as ‘knowledge institutions’. This new, five-year project – called Studying Parliaments and the Role of Knowledge (SPARK) – was selected as an ERC Starting Grant (which will be funded by the UKRI Horizon Guarantee).