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Before her appointment at University of Bath, she was an Associate Professor at the University of York’s Department of Social Policy and Social Work, an Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois in Urbana Champaign and a Postdoctorate Research Associate at the Washington University in St. Louis Medical School-Siteman Cancer Center. She earned her Ph.D. and masters in social work (Boston College), and an M.P.A. as well as an M.A. from Columbia University and St. John’s University, respectively.
A native of Kosovo, Venera Bekteshi acquired extensive experience in health and mental health research over 9 years by practicing in non-profit and government sectors, among others, as an associate researcher at the United Nations’ Human Development Reports Office and as Deputy Director of the Albanian American Women’s Organization. Most of her research focuses on the health and mental needs of immigrants, the homeless and of adolescents, and on breast cancer prevention research. Yet, she also examines sex trafficking in such Eastern European countries as Albania, Kosovo, Romania, and Macedonia. Grounded in theory, her research addresses this significant issue by employing various methodological techniques, depending on data availability.
For her academic contributions and her involvement in community service and development, Professor Bekteshi received several prestigious awards and fellowships, among which the First Award for Community Building and Leadership by the International Leadership Class at the University of Oklahoma and the Mayor’s Recognition for Community Service, New York. Additionally, she won several competitive research grants from the National Institute of Health, the United States Department of Health and Human Services (co-authored) and a number of NGOs in New York such as the Van Ameringen Foundation and the New York Foundation. Currently, Professor Bektheshi has several ongoing projects on topics such as discrimination and Polish immigrants (with Dr. Monika Stodolska), the emotional barriers and access to mammography among Latina immigrants, and the integration challenges they face in the United States and United Kingdom
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Maria Chiara Vinciguerra is a Doctoral Fellow at the Wiener-Anspach Foundation and PhD Candidate at the University of Cambridge. She works on EU governance, migration and anti-corruption. Before Cambridge, Maria Chiara graduated from Bocconi University, Syracuse University and the Hertie School of Governance. She has already published articles in peer-reviewed journals and newspapers such as International Migration Review and Corriere della Sera, among others.
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A strategic health care professional with significant experience working in multi-jurisdictional hospitals and health regulatory facilities. My interest is in health policy, and my focus is on postgraduate medical training, creating outcomes measurement and quality standards for all medical and non-medical training programs. Being that I am a KPI practitioner allowed me to understand the impact of training outcomes on patients' safety.
I enjoy generating new ideas and devising feasible solutions to broadly relevant problems. My colleagues would describe me as a driven, resourceful individual who maintains a positive, proactive attitude when faced with adversity.
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Advanced data management expertise with extensive experience in leading monitoring, evaluation, and research operations for humanitarian and development projects, ten years of challenging and developing these skills to create new Ideas and values to serve humanity.
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Work in the interface of public policy and institutional finance with infrastructure, smart city, MSME, inclusive finance and health insurance. Also in the area of industrial policy and competitive advantage of nations. Also mentoring start ups especially in the technology space.
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Sarah Carr PhD is Senior Fellow in Mental Health Policy at the University of Birmingham, UK. She has a particular interest in service user and survivor knowledge and research. She has personal experience of mental distress and mental health service use and uses this to inform all her work. Prior to taking up the post of Senior Fellow at Birmingham, Sarah was an Associate Professor of Mental Health Research at Middlesex University London. Before transferring to the academic sector she was a Senior Research Analyst at the Social Care Institute for Excellence, UK.
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Professor, Centre for Women's Development Studies, New Delhi India.
My Areas of Specialisation include gender studies, disability studies, Medical anthropology (Mental illness, infectious diseases), bioethics, violence and delinquency.
I have authored four books, more tha 30 research papers, several project reports and supervised several dissertations in women's ad gender studies
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Maria is currently a research officer within the Care Policy and Evaluation Centre (CPEC) at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Her research focuses on the area of ageing and dementia. Her main research interests are prevention, inequalities in accessing older-age prevention, and improving healthcare for older people and for people with dementia.
She was previously a visiting academic at the University of Oxford (Oxford Institute of Population Ageing) and also worked as an advisor for Alzheimer’s Disease International (ADI) and as a researcher at King’s College London (Global Observatory for Ageing and Dementia Care). Maria has also worked as a researcher and project manager at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece) and the Greek National School of Public Health.
Maria is co-author of the World Alzheimer Report 2016 on “Improving healthcare for people living with dementia: coverage, quality, and costs now and in the future” and of variou reports published by Public Health England on midlife risk factors for dementia. She is participating in many dementia and ageing-related research projects.
She has an MSc in International Health Policy (LSE), an MSc in Psychology & Counselling (University of Sheffield), and a BSc in Psychology (Middlesex University).
Prior to joining CPEC, Maria worked for several years in clinical practice as director of a dementia day care centre (Alzheimer’s Hellas). Her team was nominated by the University of Stirling (The International Excellence Awards 2010) as “highly commended” for developing innovative programmes of non-pharmacological interventions for people with dementia.
She is currently a member of the Emerging Research Board at the International Longevity Centre-UK (ILC-UK), a member of the Scientific Committee of the Greek Institute for the economics of Ageing and a member of World Young Leaders in Dementia (WYLD). She also collaborates with the Greek think tank DIKTYO, a network for reform in Greece and Europe.
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Academic working on long-term care and dementia care policy. Editor of the LTCcovid.org website and co-lead of the Strengthening Responses to Dementia in Developing Countries project.
Background in economics, with a special interest in long-term care financing and care systems.
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Sociologist, master in educational sciences, multimedia applications for education certified. UNESCO Consultant. Director of Science and Dialogue Group. Lecturer of Universidad de Chile and Universidad Andrés Bello. Specialized on measurement and training on Social and Emotional Learning.