Dill Hurwitz is an HCPC-registered balance physiotherapist with more than 17 years of experience working both in the NHS and privately, Dill has focused her career on improving the lives of patients suffering from loss of balance, dizziness disorders and reduced mobility. Using customised balance rehabilitation exercises tailored to her clients’ individual needs, Dill strives to empower people to develop better body awareness, increase confidence, and take back control of their lives.
She runs the Edinburgh Balance Clinic and is a skilled and empathic physiotherapist who understands the complex nature of multiple pathologies and the anxiety associated with loss of balance and vestibular impairment.
Marissa Lingen is a freelance writer who lives in the Minneapolis suburbs with her family. She is the author of over two hundred works of short science fiction and fantasy and has no intention of stopping any time soon. Her interests include community connection in SFF, particularly including people of all ages and abilities in portrayals of worlds that illuminate our own changing climate needs. She also likes to make nerds laugh. Her debut novella, A Dubious Clamor, is coming soon from Horned Lark Press.
Anindya Raychaudhuri is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of St Andrews. After a diagnosis of Ménière’s Disease in 2019, he became interested in the cultural history of dizziness and vertigo. His other research interests include critical theory and Marxism, postcolonial studies, memory studies and oral history.
Daniel Stolfi is an HCPC-registered dramatherapist, the artistic director of The Awesome Puppet Company, and an anthropologist. He is the programme lead for the Dramatherapy MA Programme at Brunel University of London and a lecturer on their Art Psychotherapy MA Programme. Daniel has a specialist interest in the therapeutic uses of puppetry and how our understanding and experience of suffering and healing are informed by and reproduce social and cultural value. He is active in education, training, research, and publishing in these fields, and has presented and performed his work extensively both nationally and internationally.
A leading South Asian Arts organisation based in Edinburgh, Theiya Arts aims to foster a vibrant, inclusive arts community that thrives on diversity and representation, making South Asian Arts an integral part of the Scottish dance ecosystem. They offer a comprehensive programme of dance education, as well as a mentoring and support programme for South Asian Arts Practitioners. They also have a well-established community programme that brings South Asian Arts, South Asian Arts-inspired sensory movement sessions, and wellbeing activities to targeted demographics. They work with participants of various ages, abilities, and backgrounds, in particular children and young people with chronic or life-limiting illness, people with additional support needs, older people, and carers.
