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Raphael Chimere Nwagbo is a result-oriented professional with competence and more than 5 years’ experience in transformation programming; developing and implementing systems, policies and procedures. Have successfully supported and partnered with organisations, institutions and grant making bodies including USAID, University of Manitoba (UoM), US Embassy, Heartland Alliance Nigeria, Institute of Human Virology (IHVN), FIDHA International Human Rights Agency, Global Fund (GF), Society for Family Health (SFH), APIN Public Health Initiative, Initiative Sankofa d’Afrique de l’Ouest (ISDAO) and more in health, human right and sexual and reproductive health and rights projects with remarkable successes. Raphael is passionate and has continued to contribute and advance development in the marginalised and key affected population.
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I am a social scientist specialising in two main fields:
(i) Public administration: Governance and delivery of public services; Public procurement and partnering; Citizen participation, user voice and complaints; Application of Cultural Theory as policy theory
(ii) Co-operatives and mutuals: Incentivising human co-operation; Co-operative business model; Co-operative governance; Member participation and loyalty; Co-operative networks; Public-Co-operative Partnerships (PCPs)
I have conducted research activities in US/Canada, Europe, Australia, Africa and Asia, as well as the UK.
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Rokia Raslan is the Bartlett’s Vice-Dean for Innovation & Enterprise, & Associate Professor in Building Performance Simulation at UCL Institute of Environmental Design & Engineering (UCL IEDE). She specialises in the development of computational models to support the formulation/assessment of future-fit retrofit strategies & policy analysis for domestic sector decarbonisation & energy transition with a focus on Hard to Decarbonise homes. Within these areas, Raslan has worked on & directed research for the British Council on Climate resilience of MSMEs in Egypt, Sustainable Energy Authority Ireland, the Climate Change Committee (CCC), the Department of Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS), the Energy Technologies Institute, Institute for Sustainability, the Greater London Authority & the Oman Electricity Authority. Recent projects include domestic sector retrofit analysis for the UK Sixth Carbon Budget, assessing the Energiesprong retrofit scheme & best practice in deploying solid-wall insulation in UK homes. Raslan is author of over 90 papers, book chapters & reports. She is a Visiting Professor at BAU, Secretary of the International Building Performance Simulation Association-England (IBPSA-England), a Board Member of the CIBSE Building Energy Simulation & Future Homes Groups, UK Green Deal Advisory Group & the Executive Committee of the International Energy Agency Energy in Buildings & Communities programme (IEA-EBC).
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Senior Lecturer and Researcher in Public Policy and Management- innovation, sustainable local and economic development
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I’m a PhD student in Health Services Research at Brown University. My professional aim is to use a mixed methods research approach to improve social conditions by identifying synergies between health care and social services. I'm passionate about amplifying community voices, promoting equity, and advancing health care systems.
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As a PhD student at the University of Stirling, I am studying citizen science and the impact that it can have on the environmental citizenship capabilities of secondary school pupils in the UK. I am interested in improving the quality of environmental education in school and more widely considering our relationship with the natural world.
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Tracey Price is a qualitative researcher based at the University of Stirling, Scotland. Research expertise in policing, prosecution and public health interventions for people who use drugs. Tracey works collaboratively as part of a substance use research team whose work focuses on substance use, homelessness and the impact of structural inequalities. Alongside her research background, Tracey also holds a position where she provides consultancy and evaluation concerning therapeutic approaches to providing care for young people who have experienced relationship breakdown, loss and complex trauma.
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I am a Research Fellow at the University of Stirling (Scotland) and trainee Psychotherapist. A Socio-Cultural Psychologist, I specialise in gender, organisations, mental health, child development and identities. I use a variety of qualitative methods in my research and draw on dialogical theories.
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I work on disaster interventions and humanitarian aid in different countries, and with different types of disasters. I head the Disaster Interventions and Humanitarian Aid programme at the University of Stirling, in Stirling, Scotland, the UK. I am a sociologist and social/community work practitioner and keen to meet up with others sharing these interests in policy, practice and research.
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Enza Lissandrello is an Associate Professor at Aalborg University with a background in urban planning and public policy, human geography and socio-technical transition studies. Her work examines urban and regional planning under contemporary trends of reflexive modernization, participation, deliberation, conflicts and issues of representation. She has taught and published on the roles of the planners and policy actors in planning with sustainable aims and though deliberative forms. She has led various empirical projects on cross-border governance in Italy, France and Switzerland (the Mont-Blanc area), the planning of sustainable transitions in The Netherlands (Amsterdam and Waterdunen) and on the role of planners as catalysts of change in Scandinavian countries (Denmark, Norway and Sweden). She has also engaged in research on gamification as a mediation strategy between citizens and policy managers in several EU cities (Amsterdam, Ghent, Helsinki, Fundao, Palermo, Barcelona) for the transformation of urban mobility values. Her main research interests are on the practice and the theory of planning, urban governance and participation, deliberation and power, performative studies, sustainable transitions, interpretive methods of policy analysis and planning, critical approaches to smart citizenships and urban living labs.