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Jani Erola is the director of INVEST Research Flagship Center and Professor of Sociology at the University of Turku.
His research interests include social class and stratification, family formation, intergenerational social mobility socioeconomic inheritance, sociological research methods, and welfare state institutions and attitudes. His publications on these topics have appeared in major social scientific journals such as Social Science Research, Social Forces, European Sociological Review, Sociology, Acta Sociologica, Journal European Social Policy and Demography. According to Prof. Erola, he originally started looking at intergenerational social mobility as an interesting side project within his PhD, but “questions of inheritance took over and became what really motivated me as a researcher”.
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Senior Research Fellow Politics and Crime & Head of the Sahel research programme of the Clingendael Conflict Research Unit
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I am involved in a variety of policy research projects, focused on regulatory impact assessment, social policy analysis, gender and environment. Apart from the research, I am delivering training on a variety of public policy issues. I am a regular blogger at the ISET Economist Blog.
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Academic and Arts Practitioner
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Dr Jing Gu is Director of the Centre for Rising Powers and Global Development and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies. Dr. Gu advises government and business in China and Africa and was an invited expert witness on China to the British Parliament’s International Development Committee. She is a political economist with extensive experience in research and advisory work of governance, business and sustainable development. She has led many interdisciplinary research projects involving multi-country teams, including the ground breaking pioneering research on China’s outward investment in Africa. Her teaching, research and advisory work focus on China's international development strategies, BRICS and South South Cooperation. She is a member of the International Editorial Board of Third World Quarterly.
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PhD in 'Interdisciplinary Child Research'; Lead researcher in development with particular focus on Child and Youth Research.
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Louise Elffers is professor at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, and assistant professor at the Research Institute of Child Development and Education, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands . Her research is focused on the design of educational systems and their influence on the school careers of students from various social and educational backgrounds. She is particulary interested in issues regarding inequalities in educational opportunity.
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Mizan Bustanul Fuady Bisri (Mizan) is a JSPS-UNU Postdoctoral Fellow at the United Nations University-Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS) and the University of Tokyo-Integrated System for Sustainability Science. He received PhD and MA in political science from Kobe University (Japan) as well as MSc and BSc in urban planning from Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB, Indonesia). Prior to joining UNU-IAS, he served as Disaster Monitoring and Analysis Officer at ASEAN Coordinating Centre for Humanitarian Assistance on disaster management (AHA Centre). In the past he has worked for ITB, University of the Philippines, Asia Pacific Institute of Research (Japan), and served as consultant for various organizations including government agencies in Indonesia, international NGOs and United Nations agencies. Mizan is also a member of ASEAN Emergency Response and Assessment Team (ERAT) and United Nations Disaster Assessment and Coordination (UNDAC). He is also affiliated with Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR) as young-scientist fellow, International Humanitarian Studies Association, Indonesian Association of Planners, and in the past active at United Nations-Major Group for Children and Youth (UN-MGCY), which represent youth constituent in various UN-related processes.
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Researcher on disability in development settings (main Subsaharan Africa and South Asia), with a focus on qualitative, participatory and inclusive approaches. My focus is mainly on the perspectives of adults and children with disabilities and their families. I explore and promote the use of participatory and inclusive research methods to interrogate a range of disability related issues. eg community based inclusive development, sexuality and sexual abuse, identity, inclusive health and education, .
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Development economist based in Peru (GRADE) interested in education and social policy design and evaluation, with experience in longitudinal studies (Young Lives Study)