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Brandy Henry, PhD, is a clinician scientist who uses years of practice experience to improve criminalized populations' health. Her work addresses incarceration's social determinants, and health disparities among criminalized populations, focusing on trauma, mental health, and substance use disorders. She has expertise in the intersection of criminal justice and health policy, particularly in the areas of solitary confinement, pre-trial incarceration, prison education, mental health, drug use, and infectious diseases (i.e.: COVID-19, Hepatitis C, and HIV/AIDS).
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Social development adviser specialising in social inclusion, social protection, child protection and rights, violence prevention. Skilled in research methods, monitoring and evaluation, policy and programme management. Experience with government, international donors, UN and private sector consultancy. Based in Zimbabwe and broad experience across Sub Saharan Africa and the Middle East.
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I am an Assistant Professor at the School of Social Work at McMaster University. My research focuses on systemic oppression and addressing social inequalities through a critical race feminist, anti-colonial framework, and multi-method approaches. My research interests revolve around social justice work with communities that are systemically discriminated against, including Black, Indigenous, and racialized communities, racialized migrants and forcibly displaced people, children and families involved with child welfare, 2SLGBTQIA+ people and the intersections among these positionalities.
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PhD in Economics from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). He is currently Director of the IMAGINA research center and Associate Professor at the School of Government at the Universidad de los Andes. The central topic of his research agenda is Human Capital development. He is interested in understanding the impact of adverse childhood experiences -such as exposure to violence and forced displacement-, designing and evaluating interventions that mitigate this impact, and identifying best-practices that consequently improve health, education and child protection systems.
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I’m an Assistant Professor in Sociology at the Universidad Católica de Chile. Previously, I was a Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow at the European University Institute and earned a Ph.D. in Sociology at Cornell University. I study labor market inequalities, intergenerational mobility and beliefs about inequality using a combination of statistical modeling, empirical strategies for causal inference, experimental and computational methods.
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Marie Clarke is a Full Professor of Education, Dean of Undergraduate Studies in UCD and Director of the UCD Centre for the Study of Higher Education. She oversees the UCD Teaching and Learning Unit which supports faculty in the promotion and implementation of best practice in teaching and learning. She has worked as an expert reviewer for the Norwegian, Portuguese and Flanders Research Councils. She is a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (PFHEA) Advance HE UK. She is a lead Investigator on a number of funded research projects in the areas of higher education.
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He is an Assistant Professor at the School of Social Work at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He holds a DPhil/PhD in Sociology from the University of Oxford and a master's degree from the London School of Economics. His research explores social movements, citizenship, urban marginality, democracy, urban governance, far-right movements and Latin America. He has authored and co-authored books, journal articles, and book chapters in some of the world's most prestigious presses and journals.
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Dr Cliódhna O'Connor is a social psychologist and Associate Professor in the UCD School of Psychology, where she leads the Classification & Attribution Lab. Her research explores the social and psychological processes through which we classify individuals into social categories and attribute causal explanations for those groups’ characteristics. She is particularly interested in how scientific and clinical classifications influence self-concept and social identity, and has explored these links in a range of social contexts including gender stereotypes and psychiatric diagnosis.
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My name is Dr Flávia Heloísa Santos, I am a neuroscientist and awardee of the prestigious Ad Astra Fellowship at University College Dublin, Ireland. I was appointed as Assistant Professor at the UCD School of Psychology in 2018 and serve as Director of the UCD MSc Disability. In 2022, I was nominated Research Fellow at the Geary Institute for Public Policy. Currently, I am the Principal Investigator of the Arithmós Project funded by the Irish Research Council and the leading researcher of the UCD Music and Math Cognition Laboratory.
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Professor of Sociology at Maynooth University, Ireland. My area of expertise is gender, governance, and human security, Sustainable Development Goals.