About

Professor Scherto R. Gill is Director of Global Humanity for Peace Institute, University of Wales Trinity St David. She is also Senior Fellow at the Guerrand-Hermes Foundation, an international peace think-tank based in the Southeast of England; Life Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts (FRSA), and a laureate of the 2022 Luxembourg Peace Award. She is Visiting Fellow and Associate Lecturer at the University of Sussex.

Scherto directs the UNESCO Collective Healing Initiative; and she chairs the G20 Interfaith Forum‘s Education Working Group.  

As a Researcher, Scherto’s interests centre on understanding peace, ecology of well-being and human flourishing as holistic and dynamic processes. Through research and project work, she has been actively exploring ways to advance educational innovation, collective healing, peacebuilding, and social transformation.

As a Writer, Scherto contributes to topics including human-centred education, positive peace, collective healing, deep dialogue, ecology of well-being, narrative pedagogy, dialogic and collaborative approach to global governance.

As an Educator, Scherto teaches on both Masters’ and Doctoral programmes and offers a wide range of seminars and lectures on topics around human-centred education, positive peace, collective healing, global well-being, and dialogic and relational approach to educational and programme evaluation.

As a Facilitator, Scherto creates safe space for deep listening and generative dialogue with others towards better understanding of global challenges.

Scherto is a board member of Spirit of Humanity Forum, and Rising Global Peace Forum.