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Rosie Collington is a PhD candidate at UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP). She is a Coordinator of the Economics of Innovation Working Group with the Institute for New Economic Thinking’s Young Scholars Initiative. She has also worked on a freelance basis with a number of think tanks and advocacy groups, and has written for public audiences in The Guardian, The New Statesman, openDemocracy and elsewhere. Political economist and writer, exploring public sector reform, outsourcing, climate governance, and the political economy of the state.
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I am a Teaching Associate at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge and a Lecturer in Education and Early Childhood Studies at Middlesex University. I have taught in universities, primary and nursery schools from 1992 onwards, so have over 30 years of experience working in Education. My PhD looked at the representation of education by the BBC after World War 2. My research and publications have also addressed arts education and oracy in the 20th century. I am currently interested in young muslim women's experiences of teacher training and teaching in primary schools.
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Anthropologist (PhD) and psychologist, Master degree in international cooperation and development. Working as a consultant and researcher on social and cultural policies, monitoring and evaluation for UNESCO and other international organizations.
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I am a Researcher with Nexus University. I am a former Hong Kong PhD Fellow (2019/2020) and an awardee of the Road and Belt Graduate Scholarship by the Hong Kong Special Administrative (HSAR) Government. I obtained a PhD in Social Policy from Lingnan University in Hong Kong (November, 2022). My research interests include Youth and labour market policies, informal labour markets, migration policies and urban policies. My aim is to contribute inclusive development in Africa through applied research and social policy. I also hold a Master in International Development and Cooperation from Ajou University in South Korea.
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I am a Postdoc at KNAW in the Odeuropa project working on historical multilingual text processing. I was a postdoc at Koc University in the European Research Commission projects “Emerging Welfare” and “Social ComQuant: Excelling in Computational and Quantitative Social Sciences in Turkey” between 2017 and 2021. My dissertation was on extracting actionable information from social media at Radboud University. I worked in industrial, governmental, and academic settings to process news and social media text in various domains throughout my career.
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Curt Hagquist is Guest Professor of Public Health at the Department of Education and Special Education, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. His areas of expertise include adolescent mental health, social epidemiology, Rasch measurement and impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on young people’s mental health. As the chair of the international methodology development group of the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children study, he collaborates with researchers across Europe. Hagquist is a member of the WHO Technical Advisory Group on the mental health impacts of COVID-19 in the WHO European Region.
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Dr Diego Galego is a Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Tecnológico de Monterrey, Puebla campus. He is also a research member of the Public Governance Institute (IO-KU Leuven, Belgium), the Portuguese Political Science Association (APCP) and the International Public Policy Association (IPPA). Diego is a doctor in Social Science from KU Leuven, Belgium and Public Policies from the University of Aveiro, Portugal. He specialises in uncovering the impact of social movements on policymaking. Check his new book “Queering Public Policy”.
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Dr. Givens is a faculty-level instructor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health. He has over a decade of experience working in HIV Planning and community engagement in one of the largest and most diverse health jurisdictions in the United States. He's an author on several national and international publications addressing HIV and health policy and health disparities often associated with HIV risk. He has led statewide engagement efforts and provided TA to impacted communities in multiple states, supporting the publication of several Integrated HIV Prevention and Care Plans.
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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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I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Social Sciences and a Director of the Centre for Social Policy and Social Entrepreneurship at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in Hong Kong. As a town planner by training, I have been teaching and researching housing and urban policy issues in East Asia, particularly Hong Kong and South Korea. My current research interests focus on affordable housing policy, housing and well-being, and housing in the ageing society.