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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.
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Dr Ani Wierenga is a researcher, author and educator with a local and global focus on creating strong and live-able futures, especially with and for younger generations. Enjoying developing the art of the impossible, her early career experiences as youth practitioner shaped her as a strategic thinker and program leader, now equipping others across the higher education industry, government, decision makers and community. As a cross-disciplinary communicator she brings research and practice expertise in young people's wellbeing, learning, engagement, citizenship and active social participation. With a long-standing interest in addressing social inequalities, she has a strong interest in global sustainability, and a passion for communities of practice who work with young people.
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Professor in Social Research of Marginalisation. I do research with people who use drugs, are at risk and live with hepatitis C, people in prison, sex workers and Aboriginal people with these experiences. I contribute to large scale evaluations of new models of care for marginalised people; I run a national stigma indicators project for blood borne viruses. I run a Community Reference Panel to provide a way for researchers to consult with people with lived experience. I work in health and social policy via positions on government, health agency and community advisory committees.
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Bingqin Li’s research is on social policy and governance. She has devoted all her academic career to make social policy in China to be more inclusive. Her current projects include governance of age-friendly community, local government motivation in delivering complex social programs, social inclusion and integration, urban governance, and social spending. She has particular expertise on China, and works also on other countries in Asia, and on comparative studies of policies between Asia and the West. Her research has been published in academic journals in urban studies and social policy, such as Urban Studies, Environment & Urbanisation, Social Policy & Administration and Public Administration and Development.
Bingqin Li has played an important role in introducing international social policy research to China, through editing two series of translated series of key texts.
Bingqin has also consulted international organisations, such as the World Bank, European Union, the WHO, UNESCAP, IIED, and the DFID. She has also collaborative research relationship with UNRISD, top Chinese universities and think tanks such as DRC and CASS in China.
She is frequently invited to give talks in universities and give public talks in Europe and Asia.
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I have almost 30 years of experience as an expert researcher, policy writer and governmental and NGO advisor on workforce ageing. My interests include individual orientations to work and retirement, employer behaviour towards older workers and international developments in public policy aimed at extending working life.
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I am a PhD candidate in International Relations at Nuffield College, Oxford University. My research interests are in international political economy, behavioural psychology, climate governance and firm-level behaviour. My PhD uses a theory of reputation to explain non-rational behaviour of agents (leaders, states and firms) in (1) the design of Preferential Trade Agreements, (2) why firms disclose carbon emissions and (3) why states and organisations delegate foreign aid to third parties. I use a mixture of causal inference techniques, modern statistical analysis and novel computational methods with large-n data and formal modelling.
I have experience working on education policy, welfare policies and the EU, trade policy, the WTO vaccine waiver negotiations, banking regulation, and international climate agreements.
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Kongkea Chhoeun has several years of professional experiences in the areas of development policies and program and project evaluation. He is currently a staff member of the Asian Development Bank in Phnom Penh. He also worked for United Nations Development Program, United Nations World Food Program and German Technical Cooperation. He holds a PhD in Policy and Governance from the Crawford School of Public Policy of the Australian National University (ANU). His PhD thesis evaluated Australian and Chinese scholarships aid programs to Cambodia. His research papers were accepted for presentation at Harvard University, University College London, the University of Manchester, the ANU and the University of Canberra. His articles appeared in East Asia Forum, the New Mandala, the Diplomat and Asia Times. He is a winner of two international essay competitions. He was an elected president of Cambodian Student Association in Canberra. He is a member of Asia Pacific Policy Society, Development Studies Association and European Consortium of Political Research. He also graduated with an MPA in Public Administration from the University of Hawai’i at Manoa.
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Nematullah Bizhan is a Lecturer in Public Policy at Australian National University. Former Research Fellow at Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University, where he studied the role of identities and networks in establishing state legitimacy and effectiveness in fragile and conflict-affected societies. He is also working with the Commission on State Fragility, Growth and Development, a joint initiative of the Oxford University’s Blavatnik School of Government and the London School of Economics (LSE). Nematullah is also a Senior Research Associate with Oxford University's Global Economic Governance Program, a Visiting Fellow at Australian National University's Crawford School of Public Policy and the Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy. He is a member of the steering committees of both the South Asia in World Politics Section of the International Studies Association (ISA) and the Oxford Network of Peace Studies (OxPeace).
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Norman Abjorensen is a Visiting Fellow in the Policy and Governance Program in the Crawford School of Public Policy at The Australian National University, Canberra. He previously taught political science at the ANU’s School of Social Sciences and at the University of Canberra.
He is a former national editor of the Sydney Morning Herald. He has taught at universities in Japan, China, and the Philippines and is currently writing a history of democracy, to be published in 2019. Since 2013, he has been part of the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) project at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, producing an annual report card on the state of global democracy.
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Dr. Xiaoling Zhang is Associate Professor in the Department of Public Policy, City University of Hong Kong. Prior academic roles have been at the University of Hong Kong, and Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She has a longstanding and interdisciplinary interest in remaking sustainability science and sustainable development goals. She has also engaged in environmental studies/environmental policy/climate change, particularly in the developers' behavior/ actions in contributing to social responsibility/sustainable development, land use studies, energy policy and renewable & sustainable energy use as well as the mechanisms of changes in built environment. This has led to more than 130 SCI/SSCI publications including "Energy Policy", "Land Use Policy", "Cities" etc. Her current book in planning is titled 'Remaking sustainable urbanism: space, scale, governance in the new urban era?', which will come out soon in 2018. She has organized a session on "Social-environmental justice and sustainability" in the 2015 AAG Conference at Chicago and another one on "Urban inequality and unjust sustainability in China" at 2016 AAG in San Francisco. She has worked as the Subject Editor of 'Journal of Cleaner Production' (Theme: Regional Sustainable Development Initiatives and Transformations) during the period of 2015-2017. She has also led a good number of competitive research projects including two RGC grants and two NSFC grants and several invited keynote presentations at international conferences. Dr Zhang was also the winner of the Outstanding Researcher Award for Junior Faculty 2017 and the President Awards 2016.