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Kudakwashe Foya is a recent graduate from the University of Zimbabwe in the department of community and social development.She has worked with several non-profit organisations, including Hope Sustains Life, which leverages technology and Innovation to provide education to refugees, starting with the Nyarugusu refugee camp in Tanzania. She is interested in research into education access, development and inclusion, as exemplified by her Say What research fellowship into COVID-19 disruptions of educational routines of Students Of Determination.This programme was funded by the Swedish Embassy.
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I teach within the Manchester Institute of Education at the University of Manchester. I am a sociolinguist whose research focuses on language and identity; linguistic prejudice; and linguistic rights, all applied to educational contexts. Currently, my research applies such topics to the areas of World Englishes, and accentism within UK teaching, with accents a category that I argue should be protected. My university website is provided here: https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/alex.baratta.html
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Dr Amy Yueming Zhang is a Lecturer in Urban Planning at the University of Manchester. Her research focuses on urban politics and governance, urban knowledge and policy mobilities, postcolonial urban theory, and state-society relations of China. Amy’s current and previous work has looked into urban political economy of arts and creativity as well as land commodification in Chinese cities.
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Associate Professor, Environmental & Occupational Health, Milken Institute of Public Health
Post-doctoral Yerby Fellow, Harvard School of Public Health
PhD, Environmental Engineering, Stanford University
MS, Statisticis, Stanford University
MS, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Stanford University
BS, Civil Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin
Areas of Expertise: Exposure Science, Data Science, Environmental Health, Machine Learning
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Dr. Peter Bergman is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Texas at Austin and a co-chair of the Education Technology Initiative at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) at MIT. He was recently named a Schmidt Futures Innovation Fellow to start an Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) for Housing. He founded and directs the Learning Collider social impact lab, which partners with large-scale technology companies and organizations to innovate, test, and scale interventions that promote social mobility.
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Nafhesa is a Lecturer in Sociology at Northumbria University and is an interdisciplinary Sociologist with a PhD in Sociology. SHe has worked in a number of prestigious HE institutions, including The University of Sheffield and The University of Manchester. She is an Honorary Sustainable Consumption Institute (SCI) Fellow at The University of Manchester and a Member of the British Academy's Net Zero Reference Group.
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Dr Savoia is a senior lecturer in development economics at the University of Manchester's Global Development Institute and Non-Resident Senior Fellow at UNU-WIDER. His research has looked at the determinants of governance and institutional performance and how they impinge on development outcomes and policies.
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Associate Professor in medical sociology and social gerontology at University of Manchester, founder of Global Network for Ageing Research on China (GNARC). My research centers around health inequality, nutrition, ageing, well-being in later life in the Global South and the Chinese diasporas into the Global North, with a focus on life course perspective and mixed-methods approach (quantitative and qualitative).
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Assistant Professor of Sociology at New York University conducting research related to racial inequality and the persistence of poverty in the United States.
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I´m a consultant that work for many UN agencies and I want to contribute to find simple solutions to different wicked problems. I´ve been working in different fields of development as social protection, local development and aid effectiveness in El Salvador, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama, Dominican Republic and Haití.I studied a Masters degree in International Relations in Paris. I´ve been part of the Board of two civil society organizations that works in transparency and accountability of public funds. I was candidate to the Vice presidency of El Salvador in 2019 and to the Congress in 2021.