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I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Cambridge and an APSA Public Scholar.
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Paolo’s research is concerned with the conceptual and contextual relation between borders, migration and development, and focuses on the contested geographies produced by such relation (territoriality, scale; spatialities and temporalities of borders and migration; legal/policy labels and political subjectivities); and on processes of legal and institutional change associated to it (refugee law and refugee regime; asylum reception systems; humanitarianism). Paolo has conducted field research in Peshawar (Pakistan), Macerata (Italy), Meghalaya (India), Cairo (Egypt). His current research project is titled: “Asylum seeker’s reception: taxonomies and location”.
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I work on public banks and alternative strategies of development. This includes questions of how public banks may contribute to definancialisation, decarbonisation, and the democratisation of finance.
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My name is Likoko. I come from Kenya. I am currently a PhD candidate at the University of Amsterdam in the department of Human Geography, Planning and International Development and part of the Governance and Inclusive Development research group at the same university. After a Bachelor’s degree in Social work and at the University of Nairobi, I completed an MSc in Sustainable Development at the Uppsala University in Sweden with a research on Ecological Waste Management (Ecological Management of Human Excreta in an Urban Slum: A Case Study of Mukuru in Kenya). I am now part of a research team studying “Women Food Entrepreneurs in Kenya and Burkina Faso. Building inclusive business models for food security in the city slums of Kisumu and Ouagadougou” as a comparative study of two cities. Using mixed methods in my research, I focus on Kisumu city where I examine the conditions necessary for women survival entrepreneurs to transition to growth entrepreneurship using the inclusive business framework; with a specific interest in the urban informal settlements, agribusiness and gender dynamics.
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Student in political sciences, member of an association on gender equality in Belgium.
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As a Master's student, I'm currently undertaking an internship with the Social and Human Sciences Unit at UNESCO Jakarta Office. Also, I am working on my dissertation on inclusive and supportive systems for family reintegration. With experience working in the area related to Social Protection, especially Child Protection, I would like to gain and share research that contributes to achieving more inclusive societies through this platform.
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Senior Lecturer in Migration, Mobility and Development, Department of Development Studies, SOAS, University of London. Interested in global migration politics and experiences. My research has focused on remittances and livelihoods, refugees, displacement, Somali mobilities, as well as migrants' access to justice, immigration detention, civic mobilisation around immigration in Europe.
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Sarah Birch is a Professor of Political Science in the Department of Political Economy at King’s College London. Her research is mainly focused on the empirical analysis of corruption, environmental politics and electoral ethics. She has undertaken studies of public perceptions of corruption in the UK and France as well as a global study of electoral corruption. She is currently working on corruption and climate change.
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John Barry is Professor of Green Political Economy in the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics at Queens University Belfast. His areas of research include green moral and political theory; green, post-growth and heterodox political economy; the politics, policy and political economy of climate breakdown and low carbon energy transitions; normative aspects of environmental and sustainable development politics and policy; action and engaged research; the greening of citizenship and civic republicanism.
His books include, Rethinking Green Politics: Nature, Virtue and Progress (1999); Environment and Social Theory, 2nd edition, (2007); and Citizenship, Sustainability and Environmental Research (2000). His co-edited books include The International Encyclopaedia of Environmental Politics (2001), Sustaining Liberal Democracy (2002); Europe, Globalisation and Sustainability (2004), The Nation-State and the Global Ecological Crisis (2005), Contemporary Environmental Politics (2006), Global Ecological Politics ((2011), and Environmental Philosophy: The Art of Living in a World of Limits (2013).
His latest book is The Politics of Actually Existing Unsustainability: Human Flourishing in a Climate-Changed, Carbon-Constrained World (2012, Oxford University Press) - https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-politics-of-actually-existing-unsustainability-9780199695393?cc=gb&lang=en&
He is currently working on a book provisionally entitled ‘The Story of Unsustainable Growth: Understanding Economic Growth as Ideology, Myth and Religion’. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280489369_What's_the_Story_with_Unsustainable_Economic_Growth_Understanding_Economic_Growth_as_Ideology_Myth_Religion_and_Cultural_Meme
Barry is the Belfast lead for the 5 year ESRC funded ‘Place Based Climate Action Network’ (PCAN) (2019-2023); a central element of which will be the establishing Belfast City Energy Transition and Climate Commission, which will have a strong Just Transition focus.
Barry is leader of a Work Package entitled ‘Understanding Consumer Behaviour and a ‘Just Transition’ beyond Plastic Waste’ as part of an 18 month (April 2019-Sept 2020) UKRI funded ‘Advancing Creative Circular Economies for Plastics via Technological-Social Transitions’ (ACCEPT Transitions) project;
Barry is leader of a Work Package entitled as part of the 5 year Prosperity Partnerships 2 funded project (2019-2023) ‘StreetZero: Roadmaps to Zero Net Emissions in Urban Public Transport’. Barry’s WP includes 2 PhD studentship one of which will be on ’ A ‘Just Transition’ of Public Transport Systems
He is a former co-editor of the journal Environmental Politics and a member of its Advisory Board. He is a director /board member of Sustainable Northern Ireland, Training for Women Network and Green Foundation Ireland.
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Flavio Comim is an Associate Professor at Ramon Llull University in
Barcelona and an Affiliated Lecturer at Land Economy and Development
Studies at the University of Cambridge. He is also a Visiting Fellow at St
Edmund's College. He has worked as Senior Economist for UNDP and as a
consultant for UNEP, FAO, WHO and UNESCO. He coordinated the 2014 Panama
Human Development Report on Children and the Youth in Panama and the 2010
Brazil Human Development Report on Human Values. He has co-edited books on Human Development and the Capability Approach
with Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press and Palgrave.