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Mohammad Ferdosi (PhD) has a background in Sociology, Economics and Political Science - the three main disciplines underpinning the study of Political Economy. He researches and writes about labor legislation, welfare policies and socio-economic outcomes in developed countries from a political economy perspective using qualitative and quantitative methods. He has (co-)authored more than 30 research publications and been the co-recipient of nearly 10 research grants. Two of his ongoing projects focus on Canada's Ontario Basic Income Pilot and the socio-economic effects of COVID-19 in Ontario.
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Mugabi K Ivan, I am currently Fulltime Assistant Lecturer at Kabale University, Uganda and occasionally a Supervisor of Maters Students in Oil and Gas Students at Kampala Petroleum Institute. In terms of education background, I have a Master of Philosophy from Cardiff University with the School of Law and Politics, a Human Rights Law from Cardiff University, UK Wales, a master’s International Commercial Law (LLM)- University of Glamorgan, UK, Wales, and Bachelor LLB (Hons) from Uganda Christian University: Mukono, Uganda. I like research and publishing as a means of advancing new knowledge
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An MBA Student at the University of Oxford, with a focus on Marketing and Analytics.
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César Guzmán-Concha is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow at the Institute of Citizenship Studies, University of Geneva, and principal investigator in the project “Mobilizing for Basic Incomes: Social Innovation in Motion” (H2020-MSCA MOBILISE, project no. 839483).
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Intergenerational equity must be foundational for civilization or it will perish. Research Director at Goa Foundation, member of The Future We Need
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Rossella Ciccia is Associate Professor of Social Policy in in the Department of Social Policy and Intervention and a Fellow of Green Templeton College. Her research interests lie in field of comparative social policy with a particular focus on issues relating to social inequalities, gender, care and paid work in Europe and Latin America. She is a member of the international research network Gender Equality Policy in Practice (GEPP), the scientific board of the International Observatory on Social Cohesion and Inclusion and the steering committee of the ECPR Standing Group on Gender and Politics.
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Dr. Castro Baker is an Assistant Professor in the School of Social Policy & Practice at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the Co-PI of the Stockton basic income experiment and the Co-Director of the Center for Guaranteed Income Research at Penn.
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Stacia West is an Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee College of Social Work and the co-Founder and Director of the Center for Guaranteed Income Research at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. West holds a B.A. in Women's Studies and Philosophy and a Masters of Science in Social Work from the University of Tennessee. She holds a Ph.D. in Social Welfare from the University of Kansas. She is the co-PI of the Stockton Economic Empowerment Demonstration, the first modern city-led guaranteed income experiment in the US. Her research focuses on universal basic income, unconditional cash transfers, women’s poverty and wealth inequality, and the affordable housing crisis. Her research portfolio includes numerous grants, state and non-profit evaluation contracts, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Asset Funders Network. Her work has been published in leading social science journals including the Journal of Society for Social Work and Research, Social Science and Medicine, The Journal of Family and Economic Issues, and The Gerontologist, and is regularly featured in major national media outlets.
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Elise Klein is a Senior Lecturer of Public Policy at the Crawford School, Australian National University. She also works with the Australian Basic Income Lab. Her research focuses on development policy with a specific interest in work, redistribution, decoloniality and care.
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I am a health economist interested in multi-disciplinary research on equity, ageing, health and social policy. My work focuses on discrimination and inequity in access to health and long-term care, with particular attention to long-term care, dementia care and the intersection of inequalities and disadvantage accumulation over the life course.