Sophie Gordon is a Principal Communications Strategist at FrameWorks UK – collaborating with charities and other mission-driven organisations to communicate about social issues in ways that shift hearts and minds. Sophie’s recent work includes helping organisations to reframe housing, health and criminal justice. 

FrameWorks UK is the sister organisation of the FrameWorks Institute in the US. Their research shows how people understand social issues. And they use this knowledge to develop and test strategic communications to help organisations create change.  

Before joining FrameWorks in early 2022, Sophie was the Creative Director and lead writer for the UK’s largest child protection charity, the NSPCC. 

Paul Doherty is a community activisit, anti-poverty campaigner and founder of the Community Solidarity Hub in Belfast and the charity, Foodstock. In 2023, Paul was elected to Belfast City Council and soon after made Belfast a ‘Right to Food’ city which recognises that access to food should be a basic human right for all. Paul continues to lead on this campaign in the north of Ireland and has worked to bring other council areas on-board including Derry and more recently, Newry, Mourne and Down. 

Dr Elena Vaughan is a Research Fellow in the Health Promotion Research Centre in the University of Galway. Her PhD research investigated HIV-related stigma in Ireland, specifically exploring the relationship between media driven discourses of HIV and the embodied and enacted stigma experiences of people living with HIV in Ireland. Besides HIV stigma, her other research interests include rights-based approaches to health, and social and structural determinants of health, including dietary health. She has led out on a diverse portfolio of projects spanning topics such as food environments, LGBTI+ youth health, food poverty and digital marketing of food to children and young people.