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Professor of Educational Psychology Measurement & Evaluation at the American University of Beirut, and former Director of the Office of Institutional Research & Assessment (OIRA) at the university. Has extensive experience in teaching, undergraduate and graduate courses, training, and research in area of expertise. Has conducted and supervised research in test development/adaptation, validation, and use, as well as teacher assessment competencies and published in international and regional journals and books in these areas. As Director of OIRA, engaged in institutional assessment, development of assessment plans, and preparations for accreditation, program and peer review in higher education. Participated and presented in local, regional, and international conferences on modern assessment, alignment of assessment and instruction, assessment in higher education, criterion of quality, conditions for student success, quality of student life, and language policies. As member of local, regional, and international organizations, was involved with educational research, assessment, and quality in education. As UNESCO Consultant since 2007, has prepared several country and regional reports, conducted assessment studies, submitted a regional report on UNESCO’s education support strategy for the Middle East (UNESS), assisted in the development of a comprehensive assessment system at the basic education level in Saudi Arabia, conducted regional workshops on assessment, and proposed an Arab Learning Assessment Framework (LAF). In Lebanon contributed by serving on the following committees: Basic Education Strategic Planning, the National Task Force for Governance in Higher Education, Research for Results (R4R) Steering Committee, and as the national advisor on The National Student Learning Assessment Framework. Serves as Assessment Consultant on Qatar Health Check Project.
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Social demographer for National Ethnic Disability Alliance in Australia. Works in ethnicity and disability local area estimates. Brian has an undergraduate degree in social science and postgraduate degrees in Urban Studies and Social Work. He has extensive expertise in human services ranging from homelessness to disability. He is one of Australia's leading human services social cartographers being responsible for the maps and data analysis for the publications by the late Associate Professor Tony Vison on social disadvantage. This work also produced the first interactive electronic map to be included in a print publication. One of his publications 'Shadow People' was the only Australian publication referenced by Habitat on homelessness.
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Samuel Agblorti holds PhD in geography from the University of Calgary, Canada, and is currently a Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Mixed Migration and Diaspora Studies (CeMMiDS), Department of Population and Health at the University of Cape Coast. Samuel has been involved in forced migration research for over a decade with broad interests in migration, refugees, gender and development, and environmental politics. He has published in reputable journals (e.g. Canadian Journal of African Studies, Refugee Survey Quarterly) with one research paper for the UNHCR. He has presented his works at international conferences globally (Law and Society Conference, Honolulu in 2012; German Development Institute, 2018 among others).
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Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Sciences, Education University of Hong Kong. Research interests include the causes and consequences of income inequality, as well as the political economy of redistribution.
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Associate Professor (Sociology of Higher Education) and Associate Head (Quality Assurance and Enhancement), and Founding Programme Leader of MA in Leading Innovative Learning Organizations (LILO) at the Education University of Hong Kong. A sociologist, Dr Hayes Tang is interested in the fields of education policy, higher education, academic profession and youth studies. His research focuses on the sociological role of higher education in the changing world, especially in the contexts of entrepreneurialism, innovation and future-oriented development.
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I'm a faculty member at Tel-Hai College and a scholar in the field of gender studies, combining cultural and queer theory and empirically informed inquiry. I study forms of citizenship, the public sphere and politics of belonging in the context of kinship, migration, diasporic cultures and urban environments. I am a co-founder of the Haifa Feminist Institute - Archive, Library and Research Centre, and a member of the Lexicon for Political Theory research group at the Minerva Humanities Centre in Tel-Aviv University. My current research explores women without legal status in Israel.
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Lecturer at the Pan-Atlantic University, Lagos, Nigeria. Stanley Nwani is an Economist with research interest in human development, health and environmental sustainability.
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Professor of Leadership in Education and Director of UCL Centre for Educational Leadership
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Dr Taehee CHOI researches policy or reform processes, teacher change therein, and their interaction with languages. Dr Choi has taught the youth and the teachers in South Korea, the US, the UK and Hong Kong. Through the Asian Productivity Organisation, she has advised governments and educational institutes of the UN ESCAP countries. She has contributed to social justice through these activities, particularly in a reform context.
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Socio-Ecological Economist, Research Assistant, Institute for Socio-Economics, University of Duisburg-Essen