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Stephen Duckett is Director of the Health Program at Melbourne (Australia-based think tank, Grattan Institute. He has a reputation for creativity, evidence-based innovation, and reform in areas ranging from the introduction of activity-based funding for hospitals, to new systems of accountability for the safety of hospital care. An economist, he is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences.
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I am a lecturer in political economy at the University of Sydney in Australia. My current research focus is regional economic development, with a particular emphasis on extractive industry and food systems of provision. I have previously done work on extractivism in Australia and in west Africa.
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A social worker with a particular interest in improving the social inclusion of young people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Also involved with social worker training.
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PhD candidate in Development Economics, SOAS, University of London.
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Associate Professor at the University of Victoria, BC, Canada. I'm interested in the social context of education for children in the global South
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I am a professor in the Political Science Department at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. I have expertise in feminist policy studies.
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Professor Jo-Ansie van Wyk lectures International Politics at the University of South Africa (Unisa), Pretoria, South Africa. She has completed a D Phil (International Relations) on South Africa’s post-apartheid nuclear diplomacy, and has published on, amongst others, nuclear diplomacy, South Africa’s nuclear diplomacy, disarmament, non-proliferation, the IAEA, nuclear medicine and the Pelindaba Treaty. She is Fulbright Alumna (University of Delaware, Newark, United States of America) and a Member of the South African Academy for Science and Art. She has been a guest lecturer at the Universities of Johannesburg and Pretoria, and the South African National Intelligence Academy, the South African National Defence College, the South African National War College, and the South African Diplomatic Academy. She has completed consultancies for the World Bank, UNESCO, the Institute for Security Studies (ISS), the South African Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), and Consultancy Africa Intelligence (CAI). From June 2010 until October 2014, she served on the South African Minister of Trade and Industry’s South African Council for Space Affairs (SACSA). She is a recipient of inter alia, the University of South Africa Women Developing Researcher Award (2012), Academic Honorary Colours (University of Pretoria, 2013), the Bradlow Fellowship of the South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA, 2014), and Unisa’s Leadership in Research Women Award (2014). She is rated as a C3 researcher by the South African National Research Foundation (NRF), and has received research and travel grants from a number of South African and international institutions.
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Assistant Professor at Trinity College Dublin (Ireland) and university supporter of the Inclusive Research Network, a group of self-advocates who conduct research on intellectual disability in Ireland.
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Policy analyst and qualitative researcher sexual and reproductive health and abortion
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Lisa is the Community and Practitioner Research lead within the Institute for Research into Superdiversity (IRiS) at the University of Birmingham. She co-ordinates social policy research modules at post graduate level as well as teaching and tutoring on undergraduate modules in new migration. Lisa has been at the forefront of research exploring the experiences and consequences of migration in the UK and Europe. Common themes that cut across her research and teaching on migration issues include: integration and cohesion, poverty and social exclusion, gender and health, and approaches to welfare provision for migrants in an age of super-diversity. Lisa specialises in qualitative research methodologies and has extensive experience working with a range of community groups. Her work with excluded communities has led to the development of an accredited community research training programme and she has co-edited the book: Community research for community participation: from theory to method. She has worked on and managed a range of research projects sponsored by a wide range of funders including the European Union, research councils, local and national Governments, charitable trusts and statutory agencies