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As a researcher, I have focused my work on social and economic development issues, including poverty reduction and inequality, social protection, and food security. and nutrition I completed my doctoral studies in Politics at the University of York, examining the political economy of Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs in Mexico. My work experience includes serving as a researcher and policy analyst for the Ministry of Social Development of Mexico, the Latin American Center for Rural Development (RIMISP), and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
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I am a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Politics and International Studies at Loughborough University’s School of Social Sciences and Humanities. Prior to taking up my current position, I was a Marie Curie Research Fellow at Utrecht University’s School of Governance, and I also held a 3-year Assistant Professorship in the Department of Political Science at Aarhus University in affiliation with the UNIWEL (Universalism and the Welfare State) research project. My PhD (2014) is from McGill University’s Department of Political Science.
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Kumar Das is the IGC Programme Policy Manager for IGC Bihar.
He holds a B.A. (H) in Sociology from the Presidency College, Calcutta, an MA in Development Studies from Institute of Development Studies (IDS), University of Sussex and MSc in Social Policy from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Prior to joining the IGC, Kumar worked as Senior Technical Consultant for UNICEF India Country Office, focusing on Evaluation, Research, and Policy.
His postgraduate research focused on health service delivery in India, involving a policy analysis of India’s Menstrual Hygiene Scheme to examine the role of policy networks, policy actors and politics of framing.
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Sharon is the Executive Director at LEAD. She has over 18 years of experience in research and international development, with over seven of those spent in the field of digital financial services and financial inclusion. She is passionate about finding effective solutions to promote enterprise growth and development, and realising the untapped potential of micro and small businesses. She has significant expertise in leveraging co-creation, collaborative processes, as well using the power of data from the ground up to improve socio-economic outcomes for individuals, households and enterprises. She focuses on bringing the right combination of talent, expertise and stakeholders together to ensure that investments and efforts are perfectly aligned with the desired goals.
Sharon has in-depth knowledge in “right fit research methods” and significant experience in the domain of financial capabilities and well-being, and small business and entrepreneurship development. Sharon’s journey at LEAD began in 2008, when she arrived in India with a strong desire to improve society by producing impactful knowledge that can bring positive change. Prior to joining LEAD, Sharon was an economist with Analysis Group in Montreal Canada. She holds a Master’s degree in Economics from the Université du Québec à Montréal as well as an M.A. in Social Research Methods from the London School of Economics.
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Lecturer in Social Policy, Loughborough University. Areas of experience: living standards, child wellbeing, poverty and inequality.
PhD in Social Policy (Oxford).
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Consultant for UNESCO's Inclusive Policy Lab. Assisting in UNESCO's role for a climate migration project, HABITABLE, as lead for inclusive stakeholder engagement. Daniel's primary background is on equitable and inclusive policy for smallholder farmers in East Africa and Southeast Asia, especially in the face of climate change. Prior to UNESCO, Daniel worked with the US Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agriculture Service (USDA FAS) in Tanzania. Here he analyzed the implications of power within climate development projects among smallholder farmers, partnering with World Forestry (ICRAF) and the Food and Agriculture Organization. Daniel also worked in Vietnam and Indonesia with The International Centre for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), analyzing the implementation of climate-smart agriculture. He is also involved in advising his former startup focused on food sovereignty in Kenya. Daniel holds an MSc in Environmental Change and Management and Master of Business Administration from the University of Oxford, following his undergraduate degree in agricultural economics and climate change from Cornell University.
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My research focusses on the governance of exploitative and so-called 'unfree' labour and in particular the various forms of it targeted for eradication by the Sustainable Development Goals. I conduct ethnographic and participatory action research with people defined as victims of trafficking, slavery, child labour and forced labour, and political anthropological research on the institutions that seek to protect them. My research asks why ‘victims’ are so often excluded from the policy process and tries to make sense of the way that policy-making institutions think, work and navigate their political limitations. I frequently collaborate with the international child protection agency, Terre des Hommes, on participatory action research projects with child migrants, child workers, and street-connected children to develop ground-up responses to their circumstances. I also currently lead an ERC Starting Grant that aims to trial both action research and unconditional cash transfers as potential policy responses to indecent or exploitative work in Hyderabad, India. This project partners with the Indian Network for Basic Income and Dr. Sarath Davala, who co-led the famous Indian basic income trial in Madhya Pradesh. Lastly, I founded and am one of the editors of the Beyond Trafficking and Slavery section at openDemocracy (www.opendemocracy.net/beyondslavery), which aims to put radical and grassroots commentary on ‘unfree’ or exploitative work and movement into the public domain. https://researchportal.bath.ac.uk/en/persons/neil-howard
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Dr. Sirvan Karimi has written his doctoral dissertation on Comparative social policy in Canada and Australia. His PhD dissertation is titled; Social Classes, National Settings, and the Welfare State: The Public Pension Systems in Canada and Australia. His research focuses on Canadian politics, public policy, public administration, and public law . In addition to publishing several scholarly articles, he is the sole author of two scholarly books; Beyond the Welfare State: Postwar Social Settlement and Public Pension Policy in Canada and Australia. Toronto: University of Toronto press, 2017 and The Tragedy of Social Democracy. Winnipeg: Frenwood Publishing, 2015,
He is currently working on research papers related to democratic administration, collective bargaining in Higher Education Settings, the interplay of Charter and Federalism , and Liberalism, Charter and Social Rights.
Dr. Karimi has been teaching courses at both graduate and undergraduate levels since 2007. In addition to teaching at York University, he has also taught courses at Brock and Ryerson Universities. He has been teaching courses along all three streams (Public Policy, Public Administration and Public Law) within the School of Public Policy and Administration curriculum. He has also supervised MRPs for several MA students in the Master of Public Policy, Administration and Law (MPPAL) program.
Dr. Karimi has been recognized for his teaching efforts with a variety of teaching nominations and awards, including being nominated for the President's University-Wide Teaching Award for 2013-2014 and receiving the Dean's Teaching Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Faculty of Liberal Arts &Professional Studies for 2015-2016.
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Notification Team, Inclusive Policy Lab