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Full professor of Social Work, Aalborg University, Department of Sociology and Social Work, Denmark. Trained social worker. Programme co-ordinator of the Erasmus Mundus Master in Advanced Development in Social Work. Editor-in-Chief of the 'European Social Work Research' journal. Main research interests: Service user experience and participation in collaboration with authorities; Power relations in the collaboration between service users and social workers; Developing and performing research in close collaboration with practice and service users.
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Graduate lawyer from the University of Salamanca and Masters in International Cooperation for Development in the Complutense University of Madrid. Thesis done on the EUs' refugee crisis management and its' policy coherence towards migration. Bilingual in Spanish and English and able to work in French as well. Experience in UNODC Bolivia, OXFAM Global Security Team and ACT EU. Areas of expertise are migration and climate change, currently working in advocacy on these issues.
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Dr. Olga Talal is a Postdoctoral research fellow at the Centre for the Study of Democracy and Diversity at Queen's University. Dr. Talal is interested in nationalism and ethnicity, minority rights, public policy toward minorities and obtained a PhD in Political Studies from Queen’s University, Canada in 2020, a M.A in Political Science and a B.A in Political Science and Communication from the University of Haifa, Israel.
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Ismael Rafols works on science policy developing novel approaches to S&T indicators, using mixed-methods for informing evaluation, foresight and research strategies. His current focus is on research priority setting, for societal challenges such as bird flu or obesity, or Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly in health and agriculture.
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Ranjit is an Assistant Professor in the Environmental Studies program and the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at the University of California Santa Barbara, where he leads the Clean Energy Transformation Lab. Ranjit's work focuses on energy, environment, and economics and he has led several studies on low carbon energy transitions and their impacts. His geographical focus is mainly in South Asia, Africa, and the United States.