Short description:
I am an urban ethnographer and faculty at the DPU, UCL. I work on urban marginalisation and housing precarity with a focus on houselessness.
Short description:
I am an urban researcher concerned with questions of participation in cities, especially as it relates to refugees', migrants', and other non-citizens' inclusion in planning and decision-making processes.
Short description:
William E. Halal PhD is professor emeritus of management, technology, and innovation at George Washington University, with degrees from Purdue and UC Berkeley. He has published 7 books and hundreds of articles, consults to corporations and governments, and is a frequent speaker, once substituting for Peter Drucker. Halal is founder of The TechCast Project and also co-founded the Institute for Knowledge & Innovation.
Short description:
Hien is a development economist. She has been engaged in various projects in Africa and Asia for UN agencies (FAO, UNHCR, UN Women - UNEP, UNDP, IFAD, UNCDF). Her expertise focuses on agricultural economics, food security, climate change, financial inclusion, and gender inequality. She has also been involved in other teachings, social and advocacy activities. She obtained a Ph.D. in Economics and Management from Trento University.
Short description:
Director of Research at POIESIS, and Chiar of the Marie Curie Alumni Association. He co-leads the ResearchAbility Initiative, the inter-organisation programme for researchers with disability. PhD in Philosophy and PhD in Translation Studies. He specialises in theoretical and applied issues in accessibility and translation. He has held several positions, incl. Junior Research Associate (Oxford), Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow (Barcelona), and Ulam Research Fellow (Warsaw), has participated in many international projects and has extensive experience as an accessibility consultant.
Short description:
B.Ag.Sc, M.Sc. Ph.D. Associate Professor of International and Community Development, Deakin University, Australia. Areas of expertise include international development policy and practice, with particular emphasis on political economy of development, sustainable development, and economic growth, food security, rural livelihoods, agricultural production, agricultural extension, resource management, impact assessment, community engagement and social development.
Short description:
Sonia Bhalotra has expertise in health (including mental health, early life health), gender (including pay gaps, violence against women) and political economy (representation). She is Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick, PI on an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council, Fellow of the International Economic Association, Fellow of the UK Academy of Social Sciences, on the Women in Economics Committee of the European Economic Association, the Evidence Panel of the Early Intervention Foundation and Associate Editor at the Economic Journal.
Short description:
Policy director and senior fellow of the Public Policy Institute of California. Magnus Lofstrom is policy director of criminal justice and a senior fellow at PPIC, and a visiting professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. Focusing on crime rates and recidivism, his recent work examines criminal justice reforms in California. His research also spans issues in immigration, education, and entrepreneurship. His research has been published in numerous academic books and journals, including Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Journal of Human Resources, Demography, Criminology & Public Policy, and Journal of Population Economics. He serves on the editorial board of Industrial Relations and was a member of then–California State Controller John Chiang’s Council of Economic Advisors. Prior to joining PPIC, he was a faculty member at the University of Texas at Dallas and the University of California, Irvine.
Short description:
Senior Research Fellow and Future Leaders Fellow at the Centre for Research in Inclusion at Southampton University. Currently leading UKRI funded research into the teaching of digital accessibility. Additional specialism in methodology, higher education, critical disability studies and new media.
Short description:
Asanka Wijesinghe is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Policy Studies of Sri Lanka (IPS) with research interests in macroeconomic policy and international trade. He is also interested in the impact of adjustment costs of trade, gravity modelling in trade, econometrics and the trade origins of populist politics. He has undertaken efficiency analyses, particularly public spending efficiency, using parametric and non-parametric efficiency analysis approaches.