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Adèle Langlois's picture
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Adèle Langlois is Associate Professor at the University of Lincoln. She has degrees in Biological Anthropology and International Relations. Her PhD explored the global governance of bioethics and human genetics, particularly at UNESCO. She held a Wellcome Trust Biomedical Ethics Fellowship at the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology as part of her doctoral studies, during which she wrote a policy briefing on research ethics in developing countries. Adèle joined the University of Lincoln in September 2009. She is the author of Negotiating Bioethics: The Governance of the UNESCO Bioethics Programme (Routledge 2013). She has also worked on ethics governance in prehospital research as Co-Investigator on the Network exploring Ethics of Ambulance Trials (NEAT) project and is currently researching regulatory bottlenecks in global health.
Valentina Migliarini's picture
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I am a Lecturer in Education and Sociology in the School of Education and Sociology (EDSOC). I also recently joined the Citizenship, ‘Race’ and Belonging (CRaB) Research Network. My work sits at the crossroads of inclusive education, bilingual special education, justice and equity studies, culturally sustaining and trauma-informed pedagogies for disabled, migrant and refugee children, and teacher education. My research focuses on increasing access to equitable education for students identified with disabilities and from migrant and forced migrant backgrounds in primary and secondary education. I have developed significant research and teaching expertise in providing differentiated instructions for students in Italy, the United Kingdom, Lebanon and the United States. I use the Disability Critical Race Theory in Education (DisCrit) framework as an intersectional lens to examine inclusive policies and practices in education systems in Europe and the United States. My paper on color-evasiveness and the disablement of asylum-seeking children in Italy is an example of the first application of DisCrit outside of the US context. This work provides a window to explore how neoliberal reforms in education, combined with increasing immigration, are influencing education for those children who face exclusionary practices. In research and teaching I commit to creating a meaningful, equitable, and inclusive learning experience for diverse communities. My stance towards teaching, research and service activities is liberatory.
Anna Tarrant's picture
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Anna is a Professor of Sociology based at the University of Lincoln and is a UK Research and Innovation funded Future Leaders Fellow. She is Director of the Following Young Fathers Further research study and Centre for Innovation in Fatherhood and Family Research. As part of an extended programme of qualitative longitudinal research and cocreation with young fathers and practitioners, her work promotes evidence-informed practice and practice-informed research to co-create a more inclusive landscape of support for young fathers and their families.
Catherine Bliss's picture
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Author, Policy Analyst, and Sociologist at Rutgers University
Mukti Mangharam's picture
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I am a Professor of Literature at Rutgers University in New Brunswick. I work on teaching empathy through literature and on how ideas like equality are represented in world literatures.
Hamid Foroughi's picture
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I am a senior lecturer in organization studies and management. My work looks at how organizations and societies can promote inclusion. I am particularly interested in a critical examination of heritage and history to encourage building more inclusive societies. I am also looking at human resource policies influencing gender equality and inclusion. My other work looks at how social movement and social enterprises can build informal institutions supporting corporate responsible behaviour. I have extensive experience working in Europe (primarily UK), South America (primarily Brazil and Argentina) and West Africa (primarily, Ghana and Liberia) and the middle east (primarily, Iran).
Andreja Pegan's picture
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I am researcher (PhD in Political Science) currently working at Northumbria University (UK) and as a guest assistant professor at the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia). I am interested in the organisation of the public sector, mainly how can governance reforms mend the democratic connection between citizens and representative government. I've undertaken research on co-creation, public value creation and public value theory and government communication. I have experience with empirical research in Ireland, Slovenia, UK and the EU institutions.
Helena Blomberg-Kroll's picture
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Helena Blomberg-Kroll is a Professor of Social Work and Social Policy at the Swedish School of Social Science, University of Helsinki. Her research interests regard attitudes toward welfare policies and poverty in a comparative perspective and policy changes and agenda setting power in the welfare state.
Ans Irfan's picture
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Ans Irfan, MD, EdD, DrPH, MPH, MRPL (he/him; they/them) is a multidisciplinary global public health expert with over a decade and a half of experience as a health equity strategist both domestically and globally. As a pracademic, he has worked across cultures, continents, and countries, including Pakistan, China, and the United States, since the early 2000s. As of 2017, he has been serving as a faculty member and researcher at George Washington University. He also serves as the founding director of the Climate & Health Equity Practice Fellowship. He is a fellow with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Research Scholars program. He also serves in various roles with major national and international organizations, including the American Public Health Association, Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science, and the United Nations Major Group for Children and Youth. Some of his recent roles include serving on the advisory board with the American Public Health Association’s Center for Climate, Health & Equity; APHA Governing Council; Subject Matter Expert (systems-thinking approach to climate justice) with the Environmental Protection Agency and National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; and the founding director of Center for Social Impact & Leadership with the DC Public Health Association. He has previously served as a fellow with the prestigious Christine Mirzayan Science Policy Fellowship at the National Academy of Sciences, the Agents of Change in Environmental Justice Fellowship, and a founding member and Policy Director with the DrPH Coalition, Inc. As a critical public health scholar, he combines multiple disciplines — including global health; environmental and occupational health; health policy; migrant health; climate change; sociocultural anthropology; diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI); organizational change management; program development, management, and evaluation; and implementation sciences — through a mixed-methods approach to provide innovative interdisciplinary public policy and programmatic solutions geared towards ameliorating social and health inequities. Select recent projects include: COVID-19 & Black transit workers health; farmworkers health equity; global health implications of US foreign policy; the intersection of religion and public health; traffic wardens and climate adaptation in Pakistan; evaluation of physicians’ training on climate change and health; and social equity implications of climate innovation at the intersection of technology and climate entrepreneurship. He is currently based at Harvard Divinity School, Harvard University, where he explores the complex intersection of religious moral philosophy, social ethics, and public health policies, focusing on conceptualizing religion as a structural determinant of health and its implications for public health and climate action. In addition, he is also an inducted member of Harvard Climate Entrepreneurs’ Circle. He can be contacted at ansirfan@gwu.edu. Twitter: @PHScientist
Richard Simmons's picture
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I am a social scientist specialising in two main fields: (i) Public administration: Governance and delivery of public services; Public procurement and partnering; Citizen participation, user voice and complaints; Application of Cultural Theory as policy theory (ii) Co-operatives and mutuals: Incentivising human co-operation; Co-operative business model; Co-operative governance; Member participation and loyalty; Co-operative networks; Public-Co-operative Partnerships (PCPs) I have conducted research activities in US/Canada, Europe, Australia, Africa and Asia, as well as the UK.

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