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Sevin Sagnic is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at UC San Diego. She has M.A. degrees in International Migration from the University of Kent-BSIS (2014) and International Relations from Bogazici University (2017). Previously, Sevin has worked on multiple EU-funded projects for the Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly in Istanbul (2015-2017). She has also served as an expert consultant for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and as a researcher at the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies (CCIS).
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Associate Professor in the Departments of Gender Studies and Political Science, University of Victoria, Canada.
MA and PhD in Political Science from the University of Arizona, USA.
President, Canadian Association for the Study of International Development (CASID).
Gender Consultant, Auditor General of Canada, Commonwealth of Learning, VIDEA, and other NGOs and projects.
Areas of Research Expertise: Gender and International Development & Human Rights (with a focus on Women's Economic Empowerment), Global Political Economy, Global Governance, Feminist and Critical Research Methods.
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Dr Katrina McChesney is a senior lecturer in education at the University of Waikato, New Zealand, a council member of the NZ Association for Research in Education, and co-editor of Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education. Her research centres on inclusive higher (particularly doctoral) education. Current projects focus on trauma in doctoral education, doctoral education via distance, and parents in higher education. Katrina uses qualitative, mixed, and trauma-informed research methods. She has previously worked in public education policy and education reform in the UAE.
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PhD in Modeling and Public Policy Management. Currently, she is a Research Professor at the Innovation Center of the School of Management at Universidad del Rosario. She has more than ten years of experience as a researcher and consultant in public and private organizations in her areas of interest: Strategic Innovation, Social Entrepreneurship, Public Innovation, Social Innovation, Knowledge Management and Agile Project Management.
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Michaela Benson is a sociologist with expertise in migration, citizenship and identity and a social science communicator. She is particularly known for her research on lifestyle migration and Britain's relationship to its emigrants and overseas citizens at moments of major political transformation including Brexit and decolonisation. She has conducted research with North Americans in Panama; on the impacts of Brexit for British citizens in the EU-27; Britain's relationship to the people of Hong Kong, past and present; and the UK post-Brexit migration regime.
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Francesco Laruffa (PhD) is currently Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) as well as at the Research Center on Inequality and Social Policy (SOCIUM) of the University of Bremen, with a “Postdoc.Mobility Fellowship” of the Swiss National Science Foundation.
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I am a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Development and the Environment at the University of Oslo, where I study global health financing. I have a special interest in economic anthropology, development studies and research methods. I am also the founder of the Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology www.anthroencyclopedia.com and am interested in how anthropology can inform and learn from policy. More info: www.felixstein.net
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I'm a social scientist based at Lancaster University (UK). My interests lie in inequalities over the human life-course and geographical contexts. I study child welfare inequalities and ageing and how social policy relates to challenges around this, mainly by using large-scale population data and statistics. I also have an interest in social attitudes, inclusiveness and othering, which I analysed in the context of religious inclusion in Europe.
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Professor in Educational Psychology, Special Educational Needs and Disabilities, and, Inclusion
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Dr Melissa Fernández Arrigoitia is an urban sociologist whose work focuses primarily on housing un/making and critical geographies of the home across Latin America, South Asia and Europe. A particular focus has been the production of alternative home futures and community-led practices, notably senior co-housing in the UK and Europe. Her work is informed by critical postcolonial and feminist research methods, and she has a long-term trajectory in designing, managing and delivering collaborative research projects that engage a range of institutional and civil society actors.