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Lecturer in Sociology and Social Policy
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Gilbert Achcar is Professor of development studies and international relations at the SOAS, University of London. His many books include: The Clash of Barbarisms: The Making of the New World Disorder (2002, 2006); Perilous Power: The Middle East and U.S. Foreign Policy, co-authored with Noam Chomsky (2007, 2008); The Arabs and the Holocaust: The Arab-Israeli War of Narratives (2010); The People Want: A Radical Exploration of the Arab Uprising (2013); and Morbid Symptoms: Relapse in the Arab Uprising (2016).
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Sayaka Sakoda is an Postdoctoral Fellow of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
After obtained Ph.D. (Economics) in 2016, worked at Kyoto University, Doshisha University.
She was also a visiting scholar at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales Paris, France on Feb 2019 which currently is an Associate Researcher.
She works on topics related to income distribution, family economics and health economics.
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Dario Rossignolo is a professor and a researcher. He works regularly for several international organizations, such as the Inter American Development Bank, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), OECD, International Labor Organization, IACT, UNICEF, IDRC, the World Bank, United Nations Development Program and the Commitment to Equity project from Tulane University. He also does research for agencies in Argentina. He holds a PhD in Economics and is currently an Associate Professor of Macroeconomics, Political Economy and of Public Finance at the University of Buenos Aires and of Taxation and Tax Policy at the University of Cordoba. His main research areas are taxation, public sector economics and extra fiscal effects of fiscal policy.
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I work in the Department of Social and Policy Science in the University of Bath (UK). My expertise is in comparative social policy analysis and the political economy of welfare and its governance, both nationally and trans-nationally. I have been conducting research and have published extensively on conceptual and empirical aspects of familistic welfare regimes, especially on the socio-political impact of austerity measures following the sovereign debt crisis in Southern Europe, as well as in East/South East Asia and South America. My current research focuses on how the role of the family as a collective socio-economic actor is institutionalized in the political economy of welfare. I am an Executive Board Member (elected) of the Social Policy Association (UK), Editorial Board Member (elected) of the 'Journal of Social Policy', Scientific Advisory Board Member of the Scientific Review 'Social Cohesion and Development', Scientific Committee Member of the 'Greek Review of Social Research'.
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Head of the Oxford Department of International Development and Professor of the Political Economy of Development at the University of Oxford. Together with Juliana Martínez Franzoni he has worked extensively on universal social policies in the South, with particular attention to Latin America. He is currently working on the determinants and consequences of inequality through the study of the Latin American experience.
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Bingqin Li’s research is on social policy and governance. She has devoted all her academic career to make social policy in China to be more inclusive. Her current projects include governance of age-friendly community, local government motivation in delivering complex social programs, social inclusion and integration, urban governance, and social spending. She has particular expertise on China, and works also on other countries in Asia, and on comparative studies of policies between Asia and the West. Her research has been published in academic journals in urban studies and social policy, such as Urban Studies, Environment & Urbanisation, Social Policy & Administration and Public Administration and Development.
Bingqin Li has played an important role in introducing international social policy research to China, through editing two series of translated series of key texts.
Bingqin has also consulted international organisations, such as the World Bank, European Union, the WHO, UNESCAP, IIED, and the DFID. She has also collaborative research relationship with UNRISD, top Chinese universities and think tanks such as DRC and CASS in China.
She is frequently invited to give talks in universities and give public talks in Europe and Asia.
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Notification Team, Inclusive Policy Lab
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Bereket Tsegay is Senior Researcher and Policy Analyst at the London based not-for-profit research institute the Pastoral and Environmental Network in the Horn of Africa (PENHA). He taught also as a Graduate Teaching Assistant and earned a PhD in Development Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), the University of London working on the issue of Green Economy in Sub-Saharan Africa. His research has focused on policy analysis, natural resource governance, food security, pastoralism, dynamics of institutions in development, climate change resilience and green economy, risk management as well as social protection. Bereket has rich experience in both consultancy and programme management of the EU and UN-supported activities in the Horn of Africa region countries including Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somaliland, South Sudan and Sudan and Uganda.
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Experienced Research and Public Policy Expert with 17 years of experience working on evidence based policy development including; research, interdisciplinary policy analysis, impact assessment, advocacy and international cooperation at national, regional and international levels. Prior joining Qatar Foundation, he worked for UNFPA Regional Office; EU Program on Family and Child Rights and the Egyptian Prime Minister’s Office. His research focuses on the politics of social policies, social justice and interdisciplinary policy analysis from socio-economic perspective in the Arab region, with a particular emphasis on Gulf and Mashreq contexts. His areas of expertise include social protection systems, resilience mechanisms, maternity protection, social inclusion/ exclusion, labour policy transformations, family policies, demography and sustainable development. He also published and coauthored peer-reviewed articles, policy briefs and research reports on issues related to disability protection, social welfare system, housing and family formation/dissolution, work-family balance policies, political economy of international aid, monitoring and evaluation under humanitarian circumstances, among others. He delivered high-quality consultancies, led research, policy and advocacy programs in the aforementioned fields, and participated as a speaker in numerous national, regional and international conferences and expert meetings.
Publications can be found on:
https://researchportal.bath.ac.uk/en/persons/ahmed-aref
Ahmed is affiliated with the Institute for Policy Research, University of Bath, UK and can be reached on:
Email: a.aref@bath.ac.uk