I am an applied economist working on issues related development, agriculture, and environment. My work also spans the research on child nutrition.

Dr Julie Berg is a senior lecturer in criminology at the School of Social and Political Sciences, and an Associate Director (Internationalisation) of the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research (SCCJR), at the University of Glasgow. She joined the University of Glasgow in January 2018, having previously held a full-time research and teaching appointment at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. She is a research fellow in the Global Risk Governance Programme at the University of Cape Town and a member of the international and inter-disciplinary research network Everyday Political Economy of Plural Policing (EPEPP). Julie also co-leads a global network, the Evolving Securities Initiative (ESI), which comprises scholars and security professionals focusing on the generation of knowledge about existing and emerging harmscapes and associated security governance developments. She runs the ESI’s Glasgow Hub (ESI@GLA) which focuses on exploring the impacts of new risk harmscapes on security institutions, collaborative arrangements, and democratic policing. Further to this, Julie co-leads the Network on Intelligence and Security Practices in African Countries (NISPAC) which is an interdisciplinary community of scholars and practitioners focused on exploring the role of security and intelligence services (state and non-state) in the African context, thereby addressing deficits in knowledge on this topic.

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Dr Pathik Pathak (FHEA, FRSA, Ph.D. Warwick) is currently Founding Director of the Social Impact Lab at the University of Southampton. He is a passionate advocate for innovation in higher education and has pioneered challenge-based education to improve graduate employability and connect universities to social and environmental challenges. He is also a TEDx speaker and a World Economic Forum agenda shaper. He has written over 50 articles for The Guardian, The Conversation, The Times of India and The Hindustan Times. His research and enterprise portfolio includes work on post-growth urban social innovation and social enterprise for health in low and middle-income countries. His work, in collaboration with many others, has been funded by the ESRC, Innovate UK, The British Council, UKIERI and the NIHR. As Founding Director of the multi-award-winning Social Impact Lab, he leads the University’s international work on social entrepreneurship and web technologies for impact. In recent years its work has been recognised by the Guardian University Awards, the Ashoka-Cordes Awards, and the Unltd-HEFCE awards. As a result of his work in higher education, he has been made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 2014 and was awarded the Mahatma Gandhi Pravasi Samann in 2015 for outstanding contributions to education. He was named one of the top 5 digital leaders by the Asians in Tech Award in 2016, was runner-up in the Sociological Review Prize for Outstanding Scholarship in 2016, was named a World Economic Forum agenda shaper in 2017 and was runner-up in the “Best in Education” category at the British Asian Awards in 2018.