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Kailing Shen is Associate Professor of Economics. Her research focuses on empirical or policy-related labor market issues. Examples include, but are not limited to, effects of information technology on labour market, unemployment insurance, job search and matching behavior, discrimination, gender differentials, income inequality, higher education, migration, marriage and intergenerational relationship. Kailing’s research is published in a number of leading economics journals including Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Comparative Economics, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Development Economics and the Quarterly Journal of Economics.
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Aman Vats is Professor and Head, Department of Journalism and Mass Communication at Manav Rachna International Institute of Research and Studies (MRIIRS), Faridabad, India. He has a doctorate in communication studies from the University of Pune. Prof. Vats has worked with prestigious organisations like the National Film Development Corporation; Doordarshan; Educational Multimedia Research Centre, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee. He has published over 35 research papers in reputed journals like the Economic and Political Weekly, Indian Journal of Environment Protection, and Indian Journal of Science and Technology. He has successfully supervised seven PhD scholars. He currently spends time training future broadcasters, and guiding doctoral research scholars.
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I am a media educator with a background in TV Journalism and Media Advocacy Research.
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Ajit Singh is from India - an academician, researcher and author of Computer Science Academic Books for UG/PG Courses. Presently, he is an Ambassador of World Literacy Foundation (Australia) and Member of International Peace Bureau (Germany).
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Lecturer at the University of the West Indies, Mona
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Gaia Narciso is Associate Professor and the Head of Department of Economics at Trinity College Dublin. After gaining her MSc in Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science, she started her PhD in Economics at Bocconi University, Milan. During her PhD she worked as a consultant for the Development Research Group at the World Bank in Washington DC. Gaia joined the Department of Economics at Trinity College Dublin in 2007, soon after completing her PhD. Her fields of research are Political Economy, Development Economics, and Migration. Her research has been widely cited and featured in international media. In particular, her study on the Sicilian mafia has informed the policy debate in Italy. She has successfully attracted international and national funding. She has extensive experience in survey design and implementation and has conducted field experiments in Ireland and abroad.
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Klisala Harrison is a prize-winning music anthropologist (ethnomusicologist) with expertise in the social impact of music on poverty, development, health and well-being, and climate change. She is Associate Professor of Music Anthropology at Aarhus University in Denmark. Harrison has edited three monographs on applications of music research in society and culture (in English and Mandarin); her articles appear in academic journals including Applied Arts & Health, Ethnomusicology, the Yearbook for Traditional Music, MUSICulture, Music and Science, and Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. Her most recent book is Music Downtown Eastside: Human Rights and Capability Development through Music in Urban Poverty (Oxford University Press, 2020).
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Natalia Kucirkova is Professor of Early Childhood Education and Development at the University of Stavanger, Norway and Professor of Reading and Children’s Development at The Open University, UK. Natalia’s work is concerned with social justice in children’s literacy and use of technologies. She is the founder of the International Collective of Children’s Digital Books that connects research and design in children’s e-books and literacy apps. Her research takes place collaboratively across academia, commercial and third sectors.
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Dr. Cristina Blanco Sío-López is EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie Senior Global Fellow and Principal Investigator (PI) of the EU Horizon 2020 research project ‘Navigating Schengen: Historical Challenges and Potentialities of the EU’s Free Movement of Persons, 1985-2015’ (NAVSCHEN) at the European Studies Center (ESC) of the University of Pittsburgh and at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.
She is also Member of the Executive Committee of the Global Young Academy (GYA) at the German Academy of Sciences ‘Leopoldina’ and Co-Leader of the GYA project ‘The COVID-19 Pandemic and Art’, as well as Member of the Spanish National Young Academy (AJE), where she represents the field of History.
She previously was Chair of the North America Chapter of the Marie Curie Alumni Association (MCAA), Assistant Professor in ‘European Culture and Politics’ at the University of Groningen and ‘Santander’ Senior Fellow in European Studies at the European Studies Centre (ESC) – St. Antony’s College of the University of Oxford, where she remains a Senior Member.
She obtained her PhD in History and Civilization (European Integration History) at the European University Institute of Florence (EUI), for which she received the FAEY ‘Best PhD Thesis European Research and Mobility Award’.
She coordinated and participated in numerous international research projects, conferences and peer-reviewed publications in Europe, Asia, and the Americas. Her research and publications focus on European Integration History —with an accent on enlargement policy temporalities and the Schengen area fundamental rights— Global Governance, Comparative Regional Integration and Digital Humanities.
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United Kingdom. Dr Luca Morini is Assistant Professor at the Centre for Global Learning Education and Attainment of Coventry University.