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Catherine Jones’s research interests focus on the engagement of East Asian states within global institutions, with a particular interest in exploring the extent and limits of their normative power. She was the holder of British Academy and Leverhulme trust small grant which explored East Asian States approaches to Peacekeeping, Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster relief, the findings from this project are published as a special issue of the Australian Journal of International Affairs. These findings were further diseminated to a policy/practitioner audience in Bangkok in 2019 with the support of a Global Challenges Research Fund and Scottish Funding Councils grant.
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Talitha is Director, Education and Development at Solve Education!, an education technology nonprofit with a mission to develop young people’s hunger for learning and prepare them for the workforce of the future. She specialises in qualitative research in education, curriculum development, and community engagement. On top of her work with Solve Education!, Talitha has worked as an educational consultant for the Research Triangle Institute. She earned her bachelor degree at the Indonesia University of Education majoring in English Literature, funded by Bank Central Asia Scholarship. She then moved to the US for a year to pursue a Fulbright Foreign Language Assistantship Programme at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa. Upon completing the Fulbright programme, Talitha was granted a scholarship from the Indonesia Endowment Fund for Education to pursue her master's degree in Education and International Development at the University College London.
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An experienced analyst and practitioner with a commitment is working collaboratively on real-world challenges from conflict prevention, social cohesion to good governance, with an ambition to influence positive change. I have extensive skills and knowledge needed to use research to develop insights into complex problems and the ability to translate these into options for policy and practice.
As an academic and practitioner in peacebuilding, I have focused on supporting local actors and peacebuilding initiatives and worked hard to translate policy-oriented research and grounded experience to influence and engage a range of government and non-government stakeholders to enhance support to peacebuilding efforts. My regional focus has been Oceania, South East Asia and China.
My background is in psychology, with a Postgrad Dip in Psychology and BA (major in psychology). Early in my career I focused on working to improve the quality and accessibility of mental health services to Victoria’s refugee communities and continue to work as a consultant (policy and research) with the Victorian Foundation for Survivors of Torture and Trauma Inc. I went on to complete a Masters in Public Administration in Tokyo (Peace and Conflict Studies) and a PhD in Political Science (Peace and Conflict Studies from UQ, Brisbane, that focused on contemporary conflicts in China.
For the past twenty years, I have worked on policy-oriented research to enhance local and international support to peacebuilding initiatives locally and internationally. I has worked with the Cambodia-based NGO, the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies as Faculty on the innovative Applied Conflict Transformation Studies Masters program and am now with the ACTS PhD program, both aimed at engaging peace practitioners in action-research and supporting transformative engagement in peacebuilding across the Asia region and embedding grounded experiences into and invigorating the discipline.
Since May 2015 I have been engaged on the Australian International Conflict Resolution Project, which seeks to enhance the role of conflict prevention and peace building in Australian foreign policy with the Melbourne School of Government, University of Melbourne.
My strength is in working collaboratively with a range of actors and stakeholders from policy development and research in international development, peacebuilding and conflict prevention in these multi‐disciplinary and multi-sectorial capacities.
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Jordan is focused on Health Equity as premise for achieving Sustainable Population Health which is the ultimate indicator for Sustainable Development (SD). He points out that all policies have differential impacts on health of populations, which if not properly assessed and considered can lead to growing health inequalities, thus impede SD. He argues that inclusive policies should be a normative goal and Health in All Policies is the right approach for operationalizing policies and investments in all sectors.
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Professor of Geographic Information Systems and Dean for School of Humanities, Universiti Sains Malaysia.
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My research focuses on the experiences and needs of ‘vulnerable’ or marginalised groups, specifically children and young people who provide informal care (young carers), people with mental health problems and learning difficulties and women victims-survivors of domestic violence and abuse. I am Director of the Young Carers Research Group at Loughborough University, which is known both in the UK and internationally for its pioneering work with children and young people with caring responsibilities and their families. Broadly, my expertise is in promoting evidence-based approaches to policy making, deriving impact from participatory research and designing interventions and models of best practice for ‘vulnerable’ or marginalised groups (Aldridge, J. (2015) Participatory research: Working with vulnerable groups in research and practice, Policy Press, Bristol, UK). I have recently completed two international research studies: an investigation of the experiences and needs of children, including children with disabilities, living in Tonga – the first ever national study to include the views of children and young people themselves; and a study of Roma community perspectives on migration to the UK.
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Francisco works as a Lecturer in Social Policy at Loughborough University, United Kingdom. Before coming to Loughborough in 2018, he held the Ronald Henderson Research Fellow position at the University of Melbourne and Brotherhood of St Laurence. His research interests include poverty, inequalities, and the impact of social and economic disadvantages on child development and the intergenerational transmission of advantage and disadvantage.
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Communication specialist, currently at NORRAG, an associated centre of the Graduate Institute, Geneva
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Researcher working with various topics such as private actors involvement in education, innovative financing for education, equity and inclusion policies.
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Lara Greaves (Ngāpuhi) is a lecturer in New Zealand Politics and Public Policy at the University of Auckland.