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Professor in the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds (UK), specializing in Disability Policy. Scientific Director of the European Commission's Academic Network of European Disability experts (ANED) (2008-2019). Head of the School of Sociology and Social Policy (2011-2014), and Pro-dean for Research in the Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (2004-2007). Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.
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Researcher at the Inclusive Growth Analysis Unit, University of Manchester
Interested in social and economic inequalities, labour market disadvantage, in-work progression, low wage labour markets
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PhD Candidate at the University of Edinburgh on Politics and International Relations. His research project focuses on Mexico's foreign policy. He has a bachelor degree in International Relations at Tec de Monterrey, a Master degreee in International Relations at the University of Bristol and a certificate on studies at the US-Mexican border from the Colegio de la Frontera Norte. He worked as a lecturer at Tecnologico de Monterrey and as part of a consulting team for the Inter-American Development Bank.
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Darrick's research and teaching lie in the broad area of environmental politics and governance. He is particularly focused on energy policy, both at domestic and international/global scales. Much of his research examines the public as a non-state actor in environmental and energy policy debates. He investigates public perceptions, preferences, and public actions taken in response to environmental issues and policy decisions.
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Data enthusiast, quantitative data analytics specialist. Yazmin completed her PhD in Politics at The University of Edinburgh in 2022 and holds a Master’s in Political Science with a speciality in electoral politics from the Central European University (CEU). She also graduated with a BA from Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico with Honours in Communication Sciences.
Her PhD focused on comparing attitudes towards online privacy and political culture in Mexico and Spain. Yazmin’s research contributes to understanding privacy attitudes-behaviours by integrating the relationship between political culture and privacy and considering contextual integrity.
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Professor of European Politics, Director Neuropolitics Research Lab(NRlabs)
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Shantesh Kumar Singh is a resident of India. Presently he is working as an Associate Professor in theDepartment ofPoliticalScience, Central University of Haryana. Prior to this, he was working as an Assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Shaheed Bhagat Singh College, University of Delhi, India. He has been post-doctoral fellow at the International Institute for Global Health-United Nations University (UNU-IIGH) under the research project entitled “governance for global health” during 2017-2019. To conduct his PhD field work, he has been at the School of Advanced International Affairs, Johns Hopkins University, Washington DC, USA for a short period. Dr. Singh is an alumna of Brown University’s International Advanced Research Institutes (BIARI) programme. Dr. Singh obtained his research degrees M.Phil./Ph.D. from the US Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
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My research focuses on policy impacts on inequality. I consider how, for example, work-family policies can reduce gender inequalities in poverty rates, wages, and women's employment. Other research explores how policies are related to women's migration. I also study how policies can be used to mitigate bias against STEM women/faculty of color in faculty positions. My research also explores how race and gender impact the experiences of retail workers.
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Emmanuel is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK. He recently received his dual doctorate degrees from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow UK and the University of Naples, Federico II, Italy. He was a Marie-curie Early Stage Researcher with research topic in the area of Bio-geotechnical Engineering.
Emmanuel's background is in Agricultural and Environmental Engineering and his current research focus is in the development of microbial-based technologies for soil Improvement as low-carbon options for erosion mitigation, slope stabilisation and to delay the onset of shallow landslides.
Emmanuel has been an academic staff in the department of Agricultural and Environmental Engineering at the University of Agriculture, Makurdi - Nigeria since 2012, rising from Graduate Assistant to the rank of Lecturer I, and involved in teaching, research and community service. He is knowledgeable in Environmental Impacts Assessment and enthusiastic about global governance and sustainable development.
Emmanuel is active in research and research dissemination, with a growing research portfolio of publications, contributions to specialist research community, interdisciplinary research management, conference presentations as well as serving as peer reviewer for several top journals.
He has had previous experience in broadcasting (as TV/Radio presenter) and webcasting, having worked with the Nigeria Television Authority (NTA Yenagoa) and the Confluence Cable Network (CCN, Kogi State, Nigeria) as well as the University of Strathclyde Student internet radio 'Strathclyde Fusion'.
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Experience in research capacity strengthening in resource constrained settings, in particular operational research within health programs and current focus on antimicrobial resistance using "One Health" approach and use of local evidence to inform policy and practice.