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Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Statistics and Data Science, Northwestern University. PhD in Statistics from Yale University, 1979. Research fields include survey statistics, sampling methods, statistical demography, statistical modeling of seismic hazards, legal statistics, uses of statistics, cost-benefit analysis of statistics.
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Professor of Statistics at Virginia Commonwealth University. PhD in Statistics from Virginia Tech, MS in Statistics from Virginia Tech, MS in Mathematics from Miami University, BS in Mathematics Education from Bowling Green State University. I work on Bayesian methodology for applied problems. I have worked on projects in Ecology, Psychology, Forensic Science, Engineering and Genetics.
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Tarek is Associate Professor in Education and Public Policy at the School of Education, University of Birmingham. Previously, he was a policy analyst at the OECD directorate of Education and Skills (PISA team) and a Senior Research Associate at University College London, Institute of Education. His research spanned several areas including: equity in education, assessment, education and social policy, and quantitative and survey methods. Tarek worked extensively on international surveys such as PISA and TIMSS, the different British Cohort Studies, and British administrative data.
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Research focus: corruption/kleptocracy (globally); Nigeria. Associate Fellow, Chatham House; Nonresident Scholar, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Books: Understanding Kleptocracy (forthcoming); Nigeria: What Everyone Needs to Know (OUP, 2018). Longtime analyst with the U.S. Departments of State and Defense; former Deputy National Intelligence Officer for Africa at the National Intelligence Council. International Affairs Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. MA (PPE, Oxon), MA (War Studies, London).
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Professor at Roskilde University. I am specializing in social policies, especially care from a gender+ perspective. I have a particular interest in the governance of care for the oldest old/elderly people, and work interdisciplinary between political science and sociology.
I focus on the state and its ways of understanding care needs, diversity and care qualifications in various policies and between various levels of governance (local, national and international).
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Over thirty years experience of working with charities and community groups across the United Kingdom and Ireland, Colin has led projects to establish networks of volunteer-led poverty-relief agencies, as well as engagement in philanthropy development, social policy, and inclusion.
He holds degrees from the Milltown Institute in Dublin and from the University of Sheffield.
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I am an applied cultural anthropologist, a Professor of Anthropology, and the Associate Director of the Center for Material Culture Studies (CMCS) at the University of Delaware. I study the anthropology of tourism, food, the African diaspora (Brazil, Ecuador, Grenada, and Panama), and applied anthropology. I have a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from the U of Oregon, an M.A. in Applied Anthropology from Oregon State U, and a Licenciatura in Sociocultural Anthropology from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador. I serve as Treasurer of the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA).
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Dr Francesca Peruzzo's research interests lie in the intersection between politics, policy, education governance and inclusion. She has published widely on ableism and higher education policy and their implications for equity of opportunities of disabled students and education governance. She is currently the Research Lead of the Education RESET project, analysing inclusive technologies and policy assemblages in the Global South and North and the impact of privatisation and market-driven policies on equity of opportunities in a post-pandemic education.