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Research Assistant at Centre for Development and the Environment (University of Oslo) and Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI)
Previous experience from UNDP (Delhi), Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Sarajevo) and Oxford China International Consultancy (OCIC)
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I am a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Education at the University of Oxford. My research interests include teacher education, scientific reasoning and argumentation, as well as research impact. I am currently working on the H2020-funded ‘FEDORA’ project, which investigates students’ future-oriented skills for enhancing responsibility and civic engagement. I am also a member of ‘SciKids’ project, which aims to assess the nature of science teaching in early years education.
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Program manager/researcher at Samuel Hall. International Development practitioner currently working as a researcher and program manager with an international research firm. Deeply passionate about education + health-related issues, particularly with regards to refugees, migrants, and the most marginalised. 10 years experience as an international secondary school educator and holding a MSc, B.Ed. and B.A. I'm looking forward to collaborating with you!
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Associate Professor at the Department of Economics, Universidad de la Republica (Uruguay). PhD in Economics.
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Assistant Professor of Political Science at George Washington University
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Rossella Ciccia is Associate Professor of Social Policy in in the Department of Social Policy and Intervention and a Fellow of Green Templeton College. Her research interests lie in field of comparative social policy with a particular focus on issues relating to social inequalities, gender, care and paid work in Europe and Latin America. She is a member of the international research network Gender Equality Policy in Practice (GEPP), the scientific board of the International Observatory on Social Cohesion and Inclusion and the steering committee of the ECPR Standing Group on Gender and Politics.
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I am the Director of Research at the Institute of Policy Studies of Sri Lanka. i have been involved in many studies that look at inclusiveness in policies in Education, Health, Public Finance, etc.
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Jens Jungblut works as an Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science at the University of Oslo. Prior to this, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Scandinavian Consortium for Organizational Research (SCANCOR) at Stanford University and a postdoctoral researcher at the International Centre for Higher Education Research (INCHER) at the University of Kassel. He received his PhD from the University of Oslo. His main research interests include party politics, policy-making, and public governance in the knowledge policy domain (higher education & research), organizational change in higher education, and the role of (academic) expertise in policy advice.
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I am and economist and a Rstudio certified tidyverse instructor. I have experience in working with government, think tanks and elected representatives in range of issues such as welfare schemes, rights based laws and data analytics.
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Jakob is Research and Policy Officer at OPHI. He does both academic research on multidimensional poverty measurement and analysis and associated areas – and he works with international partners in United Nations agencies and governments around the world towards the development of multidimensional poverty indices as permanent official statistics and all-of-government policy-tools.
Jakob is also Lecturer at Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany.
He previously held research positions at the Blavatnik School of Government and Mansfield College (both University of Oxford), and has worked in diplomacy for the German Federal Foreign Office.
Research interests
Theories, measurement, and analysis of well-being, poverty and inequality; welfare economics; sustainable (human) development; social protection; evidence-based public policy; and the capability approach.
Select Publications
2021
UNDP and OPHI (2021). Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2021. Unmasking Disparities by Ethnicity, Caste and Gender. New York: United Nations Development Programme.
WHO (2021). Using Multidimensional Poverty and Vulnerability Indices to Inform Equitable Policies and Interventions in Health Emergencies. Geneva: World Health Organization.
Dirksen, J. and Alkire, S. (2021). ‘Children and Multidimensional Poverty. Four Measurement Strategies’, Sustainability, Vol. 16, No. 13: 9108. DOI: 10.3390/ su13169108. (Also published as: OPHI Working Paper 138, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.)
NPC (2021). Nepal Multidimensional Poverty Index 2021. Analysis Towards Action. Kathmandu: National Planning Commission, Government of Nepal.
2020
Dirksen, J. (2020). ‘Which Are the Dimensions and Indicators Most Commonly Used to Measure Multidimensional Poverty Around the World?’, Dimensions, Vol. 11: 14-22.
Alkire, S., Dirksen, J., Nogales, R. and Oldiges, C. (2020). ‘Multidimensional Poverty and Vulnerability to COVID-19. A Rapid Overview of Disaggregated and Interlinked Vulnerabilities in Sub-Saharan Africa’, OPHI Briefing 54a, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, University of Oxford.
Alkire, S., Dirksen, J., Nogales, R. and Oldiges, C. (2020). ‘Multidimensional Poverty and Vulnerability to COVID-19. A Rapid Overview of Disaggregated and Interlinked Vulnerabilities in Sub-Saharan Africa’, OPHI Briefing 54, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, University of Oxford. This briefing is also available in French.
Alkire, S., Dirksen, J., Nogales, R. and Oldiges, C. (2020). ‘Multidimensional Poverty and COVID-19 Risk Factors. A Rapid Overview of Interlinked Deprivations Across 5.8 Billion People’, OPHI Briefing 53a, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Alkire, S., Dirksen, J., Nogales, R., and Oldiges, C. (2020). ‘Multidimensional Poverty and COVID-19 Risk Factors. A Rapid Overview of Interlinked Deprivations Across 5.7 Billion People’, OPHI Briefing 53, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, University of Oxford.
Alkire, S., Dirksen, J., Oldiges, C. and Nogales, R. (2020). ‘Multidimensional Poverty and the Risk from COVID-19’, Dimensions, Vol. 9: 7-10.
UNDP and OPHI (2020). Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2020. Charting Pathways out of Multidimensional Poverty: Achieving the SDGs. New York: United Nations Development Programme.
OPHI (2020). Multidimensional Poverty in Chhattisgarh: A Measure for Action. Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, University of Oxford.
2019
UNDP and OPHI (2019). Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2019. Illuminating Inequalities. New York: United Nations Development Programme.