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Professor of Sociology and Dean of Human Sciences at UCD. Researcher on higher education especially on access and comparative policy
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I am a Researcher and Lecturer with a background in Design. My projects examine and rethinking existing systems by closely observing geographical, political and cultural changes and their impact on society. Works often result in the production of speculative scenarios and may be disseminated through various media including but not limited to film, text, simulators and events.
Next to my practice I teach Design Thinking at Open University and critical Design at Goldsmiths University.
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AR/VR / Teams evangelist . Passionate about education and mental health support using technology as an enabler.
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Dr. Jan Fransen is senior researcher in Urban Economic Development and Resilience at Erasmus University Rotterdam, working for the Institute of Housing and urban development Studies (IHS). He has over 25 years of experience in local economic development, with a particular interest in urban resilience, community-based organisations, small firm development, informality, clustering, innovation systems, global value chains and institutional economics. He presently conducts studies on urban resilience in Rotterdam, The Hague, Nairobi and internationally. Jan co-supervises PhD students, lectures in master programmes and co-coordinates short courses and a MOOC on Sustainable Local Economic Development. He has completed a wide range of research assignments, consultancies, training and has held various positions, including team leader, senior technical advisor, principal researcher and trainer. He has carried out projects for the World Bank, European Commission, United Nations, NGO’s and several national, regional and local governments worldwide. He has long and short-term working experience in over 25 countries in Africa, Asia and Europe.
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I am an Assistant Professor in Modern Latin American History at Leiden University. I hold a PhD in Development Studies from the International Institute of Social Studies.
My research deals with the gendered, racialised and generational impacts of targeted social protection programmes. The efficacy of social assistance in achieving quantifiable development outcomes has received much attention while turning a blind eye to the broader systemic consequences of these programmes. My research moves beyond policy evaluations of such outcomes. Instead, it seeks to explore the potential role of social protection in perpetuating rather than attenuating existing exclusion and power differentials in Latin America, reproducing various forms of discrimination, domination, oppression, and social fragmentation. It also addresses the normative and material dimensions of redistributive social policies in a context of limited fiscal capacity, engaging with critical questions regarding the financing of social policies and programmes including high levels of indebtedness in the region next to tax evasion.
In my most recent paper, Falling through the cracks: digital infrastructures of social protection in Ecuador, published in Development and Change (2021), I study the politics of exclusion and inclusion that permeate digital infrastructures, particularly data infrastructures such as social registries, that are used to target Ecuador's most prominent social assistance programme, Bono de Desarrollo Humano, and the COVID-related programme Bono de Protección Familiar. While in my paper, Institutionalising Segregation: Women, Conditional Cash Transfers, and Paid Employment in Southern Ecuador, Population and Development Review (2019), I question perversity claims associated with cash transfers and flag processes of gender segregation in the labour market. My research contributes to interdisciplinary work on development studies, with a focus on social policy. Situated within development studies and informed by political economy, anthropology of the state, and sociology of gender and race; it seeks to understand how social policy shapes social and political identities. To that aim, I have adopted an intersectional approach, attentive to gender, age, class, race, and ethnicity. Most of my empirical research has focused on Ecuador, though I have written more broadly about Latin America.
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I am an Adjunct Faculty and Researcher at New York University, New York.
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Entrepreneur, Startup Advisor, Consultant, University Professor of Entrepreneurship, Biotech, and Healthcare Innovation
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Economist with experience in transportation, sustainability, resilience, and public policy issues
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Juliana Freire is a Professor of Computer Science and Data Science at New York University. She was the elected chair of the ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data (SIGMOD), served as a council member of the Computing Research Association’s Computing Community Consortium (CCC), and was the NYU lead investigator for the Moore-Sloan Data Science Environment, a grant awarded jointly to UW, NYU, and UC Berkeley. She develops methods and systems that enable a wide range of users to obtain trustworthy insights from data. This spans topics in large-scale data analysis and integration, visualization, machine learning, provenance management, and web information discovery, and different application areas, including urban analytics, predictive modeling, and computational reproducibility. Freire has co-authored over 200 technical papers (including 11 award-winning publications), several open-source systems, and is an inventor of 12 U.S. patents. According to Google Scholar, her h-index is 61 and her work has received over 16,000 citations. She is an ACM Fellow, a AAAS Fellow, and a recipient of an NSF CAREER, two IBM Faculty awards, and a Google Faculty Research award. She received the ACM SIGMOD Contributions Award in 2020. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, DARPA, Department of Energy, National Institutes of Health, Sloan Foundation, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, W. M. Keck Foundation, Google, Amazon, AT&T Research, Microsoft Research, Yahoo! and IBM. She received a B.S. degree in computer science from the Federal University of Ceara (Brazil), and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
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Dr. Julia Lane is a professor at New York University’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and co-founder of the Coleridge Initiative. Dr. Lane is an economist and statistician who has been actively involved in the management and linkage of federal, state, and local data as well as producing new data products. She has been involved in founding many successful and accessible data analysis platforms, including the U.S. Census Bureau’s Longitudinal Employer–Household Dynamics program, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s PatentView, the integrated data infrastructure for Statistics New Zealand, the Institute for Research on Innovation and Science, and the Coleridge Initiative’s Administrative Data Research Facility (ADRF). She is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Statistical Association and the International Statistical Institute. Her most recent book is Democratizing Our Data: A Manifesto, published by MIT Press.