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Professor of Work Psychology at The University of Sheffield. Karina Nielsen is an expert in organisational interventions aimed at improving employee health and wellbeing through making changes to the way work is organised, designed and managed. She has developed and tested frameworks on how to design, implement and evaluate organisational interventions. Such interventions may focus on the individual, group, leader and organisational levels. She also has expertise in interventions to promote workers return and thrive at work after long-term sickness absence due to common mental disorders.
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Nora Siklodi is a Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Portsmouth, UK, and Visiting Fellow in DACED at NTNU, Norway. Her research interest is in citizenship politics, looking at new ways of defining and describing the experience of various types of citizenship as they happen today
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Dr Olumide Olukanni is an environmental biotechnologist with interest in pollutants biodegradation and wastewater remediation. He obtained a PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Lagos, Nigeria. He was a visiting research to Shivaji University Kolhapur, India (2009), University of Hamburg, Germany (2014), University of Innsbruck, Austria (2022). He was lecturer of the year (2016), Chairman, Best University Committee (2016) and received the University Baca Laurel in 2018. He has attracted several research grants: TWAS-DFG, 2014; TWAS-IsDB grant 2019, GCRF Network 2020, Africa-Uninet 2022.
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Pascual Berrone is professor of strategic management and holder of the Schneider Electric Chair of Sustainability and Business Strategy at IESE Business School. Prof. Berrone has been recognized on several occasions for his outstanding research and teaching. Prof. Berrone was an Associate Editor of the research outlet “Organization & Environment” in recent years and is a member of several editorial boards. He is also the academic co-director of the research platform “IESE Cities in Motion” and academic director of the International Center for Competitiveness (ICC).
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Professor Bollinger’s interdisciplinary research portfolio aims to understand the causal effects of marketing and policy decisions in sustainability domains, and the interdependent reactions by consumers and firms. Examples include drivers of solar adoption and pricing, the role of home-automation and dynamic pricing on demand response, and response to information. Professor Bollinger received his B.A. and B.E. in engineering at Dartmouth College and his M.A. in Economics and Ph.D. in Marketing at Stanford University.
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Dean, Sciences Po Urban School. Teaching 'Urban Sociology' & 'Urban Policy Analysis'. Researcher at CEE.
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I am a Post Doc at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge where I am a part of the Independent evaluation of the Girls Education Challenge to see how effective it has been for girls with disabilities. I have a PhD in the role of religion in classrooms in Pakistan from the Institute of Education, university College London. I am also an education consultant with the World Bank where i focus on inclusive education.
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Associate Professor in Social Policy, University College Dublin. Interests: sustainable housing and communities; evidence for Policy: eco-social Policy; Social Policy, climate change and other environmental issues..
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Senior Lecturer of sociology at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. Ongoing Interests: work, unpaid work, care; social reproduction; gender; feminism; migration. Prince Claus Chair (2021-2023)
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I am currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Helsinki in the faculty of Social Sciences. My research interest focuses on Universal Basic Income in sub-Saharan African countries. I mainly apply quantitative and microsimulation techniques to analyze the UBI's impact at the micro and macro levels. On the one hand, I examine its effects on poverty and inequality. On the other hand, I investigate its implications in tax revue and financial costs.
I am also working as Research Assistant at United Nations University UNU-WIDER in the SOUTHMOD project.