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Mary Murphy is Professor in the Department of Sociology, Maynooth University, with research interests in ecosocial welfare, gender, care and social security, globalisation and welfare states, and power and civil society. She co-edited The Irish Welfare state in the 21st Century Challenges and Changes (Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2016) and authored forthcoming Creating an Ecosocial Future (Policy Press, May 2023). An active advocate for social justice and gender equality, she was appointed to the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (2013-217) and is now a member of the Council of State.
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Assistant Professor Sara Baumann is a global health, mixed methods researcher with primary research interests in 1) participatory, arts-based, and visual research methods, 2) women’s and adolescent reproductive health, and 3) mental health. She has over 13 years of experience conducting research and programming in health and development in South Asia, with a current focus on Nepal. Her research agenda embraces community-engaged methods and developing evidence-based approaches for improving social determinants of health.
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I am a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Epidemiology Department at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health. I hold a PhD from the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where I received training in demographic and spatial analysis and qualitative methods. I have a background in environmental vulnerability and migration topics and currently investigate how climate change-related environmental factors influence health exposure risks.
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Bulelani Jili is a Meta Research Ph.D. Fellow at Harvard University. His research interests include ICT Development, Africa-China relations, Cybersecurity, National Security, Algorithmic Decision-Making, Post-Colonial Thought, and Privacy Law. He is also a Visiting Fellow at Yale Law School, a Non-residential Fellow at the Atlantic Council, Cybersecurity Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, Scholar-in-residence at the Electronic Privacy Information Center, Visiting Fellow at Hong Kong University Law, and Research Associate at Oxford University.
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Marina Cino Pagliarello is Associate Lecturer in Public Policy at the UCL Department of Political Science; Visiting Fellow at the European Institute of the London School of Economics and Political Science; and Research Associate at LSE Consulting where she leads projects and evaluation studies on education. She has worked as education policy researcher and specialist with national/international organisations and governments for over 20 years, with a track record in the delivery of international education projects and in expanding strategic relationships with academic institutions
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I am a University Associate Professor in Education & International Development, affiliated with the Research for Equitable Access and Learning (REAL) Centre at the University of Cambridge. My primary research interests are in the fields of social stratification, life course research, and comparative education, with a focus on low- and middle-income countries in the global South.
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Dr Adele Whelan is a Senior Research Officer in the Economics Analysis Division at the Economic and Social Research Institute. She is also Adjunct Professor at the Department of Economics at Trinity College Dublin. Her research interests are in the areas of labour economics, the economics of education, social inclusion and industrial organization.
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By training and practice, I am an agricultural, behavioral and development economist and specialize in evidence-based policy making research through randomized control trials (RCTs). In recent years, I also use long-term panel data being matched with information from administrative data/web-based big data sources and policy interventions to conduct the effectiveness of the interventions. My major filed of interests are population aging, climate smart farming and sustainable mechanization, education/skills for the future, etc.
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Professor (on secondment) of School of Economics at University of the Philippines. His specialties are public economics, development economics and health economics. His research on fiscal decentralization, local political economy, local and regional development, health financing and on impact evaluation have been published in edited volumes and journals such as Journal of Development Studies, Asian Journal of Political Science, Review of Urban and Regional Development Studies, Asian Economic Journal, Lex Localis-The Journal of Local Self-Government, Asian Journal of Social Science, and Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Health.
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I am a performance-driven Public Health Physician with more than 30 years of successful professional experience that includes leadership, management, performance evaluation, teaching, and mentoring skills in Preventive Medicine, Public Health, Applied Epidemiology, Communicable and Non-Communicable Disease Prevention, Surveillance and Control, Environmental & Occupational Safety & Health. This includes extensive experience in Outbreak Investigation & Control, Health Literacy & Health Equity/Inclusiveness Communications, Academia, and Public-Private Partnerships.