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UNESCO Chair Project Manager UNESCO Chair Project Manager
"Transforming the Lives of People with Disabilities, their Families and Communities, Through Physical Education, Sport, Recreation and Fitness".
Munster Technological University
Co Kerry
Ireland
Phone: +353 66 7144194
Mobile: +353 87 2868250
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Dr J. Simon Rofe is Reader in Diplomatic and International Studies in the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy, the School’s Academic Head of Online Learning, and Programme Director for MA Global Diplomacy, at SOAS University of London. His research focuses upon diplomacy, international and global history, with a particular focus upon diplomacy and sport. He is the author and editor of a number of books and academic and non-academic articles. Articles include: 'Sport and Diplomacy: A Global Diplomacy Framework.' Diplomacy and Statecraft, 27 (2). pp. 212-230. 2016; '"Strenuous Competition on the field of play, Diplomacy off it" – The 1908 London Olympics, Theodore Roosevelt, Arthur Balfour, and Transatlantic Relations'. w/ Alan Tomlison, Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, (15) 1, pp 60-79, 2016; and 'It is a squad game: Manchester United as a diplomatic non-state actor in international affairs.' Sport in Society, 17 (9). pp. 1136-1154. 2014. Selected books include: Sport and Diplomacy: Games within Games (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018): The London Embassy – 70 Years in Grosvenor Square 1939-2009, with Alison Holmes (Palgrave: London, 2012); International History and International Relations, with Andrew Williams and Amelia Hadfield (Routledge: Basingstoke, 2012).
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Currently professor of gerontology and social policy, school of social and political sciences , Melbourne. I have worked as a community psychologist in London's East End, at the UK Social Work Council, Keele University, Kings College London and now The University of Melbourne and BSL, a local NGO. Most of my work has been on adult ageing, looking at national and international policy. I've done research on, consumption and identity of midlifers, psychodynamic approaches to adult ageing, elder abuse, intergenerational relations, older workers, regulation and organisations, working with NGOs, and public attitudes to dementia. The latest book is called 'negotiating ageing: cultural adaptation to the prospect of a long life'.
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Andy is an expert on the topic of the cultural industries. He has held academic appointments at University College London and LSE, King’s College, London. He joined City University London in 2013. Andy established and was founding chair of the Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries at KCL; and is currently Director of the Centre for Culture and the Creative Industries at City University. Andy specializes the analysis of the cultural industries globally. This research has three strands. The first focuses on the social and economic dynamics of clustering and knowledge exchange. The second strand concerns the definition and measurement of employment in the cultural, or creative, industries. The third concerns cultural governance and policy making at the national, regional and urban scales. He has developed definitions of the cultural sector that are used as standard measures of trade and employment by UNCTAD and UNESCO. Andy has made a notable contribution (textually and methodologically) to all iterations of the “Creative Economy Report’; and to the World Cities Culture Report. He has just completed the first systematic comparison of cultural employment in North America and Europe for NESTA and a report on Creative Hubs for the British Council. Andy has worked as a consultant or advisor for national and urban cultural and creative industry policy makers globally, and specifically reports for the EU, Council of Europe, UNESCO, UNCTAD, and WIPO, and the British Council.
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Education Economist and Policy Analyst
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Dylan O’Driscoll is an Associate Professor (Research) at the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations (CTPSR) and Associate Senior Fellow at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). His work bridges academia and policy and focuses on the drivers of conflict and pathways to peace. He is particularly interested in understanding people’s behaviour in relation to acts of peace and conflict at the everyday level.
Prior to joining CTPSR Dylan was Director of the MENA Programme and Senior Researcher at SIPRI. He previously held the Conflict Research Fellowship at the Social Science Research Council; was Associate at the LSE Middle East Centre; was a Researcher and Lecturer at the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI) at the University of Manchester; was a Research fellow at the Middle East Research Institute (MERI) in Erbil, Kurdistan Region of Iraq; and a Visiting Researcher at the Polish Institute for International Affairs (PISM), in Warsaw, Poland. He has a PhD in Ethnopolitics from the University of Exeter.
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I am Ramesh Paudel from Nepal. I obtained my PhD in Economics from the Australian National University and worked as a consultant at the at the World Bank and Asian Development Bank in number of occasions. I am a visiting fellow at the Australian National University (ANU), Canberra, Australia. I have extensive research and teaching experience in Nepal and Australia. My research interests include international trade liberalization and reforms, foreign direct investment, landlocked economies, development economics, and macroeconomics. I have published several academic papers in peer reviewed journals and working papers. I worked in a technical team to formulate the economic policy of the government of Nepal, and a development policy adviser to the government of Nepal. Currently, I am working as a research academic at Kathmandu University and CEO in Janata rasharan and prakashan limited (People's broadcasting and publicaiton) in Kathmandu, Nepal.
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Associate Professor in Media and Communications, Centre for Cultural and Media Policy Studies, University of Warwick, UK
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June Wang is Assistant Professor of Urban Geography in the Department of Public Policy at City University of Hong Kong. Her research interests include cultural/creative cities and culture-led urban transformation, such as gentrification and recently, territorialization of creative cities through assemblage of land and population, and the consequently precarious geography of cultural workforce. She has co-edited the book Making Cultural Cities in Asia: Mobility, Assemblage, and the Politics of Aspirational Urbanism (Routledge, 2016), and has authored published papers in various journals, such as Cities, Geoforum, Territory, Politics, Governance and Urban Geography.
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Dr Laura Davy is a Research Fellow in the Equity and Diversity stream at the Public Service Research Group, UNSW Canberra. A political theorist and sociologist, her research focuses on disability and care theory and policy. She completed her PhD at the Department of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Sydney in 2017. She then worked at the Social Policy Research Centre conducting a range of commissioned research projects such as a Review of the National Disability Strategy 2010-2020, a review of peer support practice, and a training development project.
Laura is experienced in a range of qualitative research methods including stakeholder consultations and the application of participatory and inclusive research methods in the disability sector. She previously held the position of Research Associate at the City Futures Research Centre, UNSW, where she worked on projects in the disability, ageing, and housing policy fields. Her current research analyses the range of influences on disability policy in Australia and internationally, such as the implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the shift towards market-based social services delivery.