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June Wang is Assistant Professor of Urban Geography in the Department of Public Policy at City University of Hong Kong. Her research interests include cultural/creative cities and culture-led urban transformation, such as gentrification and recently, territorialization of creative cities through assemblage of land and population, and the consequently precarious geography of cultural workforce. She has co-edited the book Making Cultural Cities in Asia: Mobility, Assemblage, and the Politics of Aspirational Urbanism (Routledge, 2016), and has authored published papers in various journals, such as Cities, Geoforum, Territory, Politics, Governance and Urban Geography.
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Dr. Hwok-Aun Lee is Senior Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), Singapore. He has researched and published works on affirmative action, discrimination, inequality, social protection, labour and education, with a focus on Malaysia, as well as comparative study vis-à-vis South Africa and Southeast Asia. His recent articles have been published in Journal of Contemporary Asia, Journal of Asian and African Studies, Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, Journal of Southeast Asian Economies, and in books published by ISEAS, Oxford University Press, Edward Elgar and Routledge. He has served on the Technical Committee of Malaysia’s National Wage Consultative Council, and as national consultant to the 2013 Malaysia Human Development Report.
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Dr Laura Davy is a Research Fellow in the Equity and Diversity stream at the Public Service Research Group, UNSW Canberra. A political theorist and sociologist, her research focuses on disability and care theory and policy. She completed her PhD at the Department of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Sydney in 2017. She then worked at the Social Policy Research Centre conducting a range of commissioned research projects such as a Review of the National Disability Strategy 2010-2020, a review of peer support practice, and a training development project.
Laura is experienced in a range of qualitative research methods including stakeholder consultations and the application of participatory and inclusive research methods in the disability sector. She previously held the position of Research Associate at the City Futures Research Centre, UNSW, where she worked on projects in the disability, ageing, and housing policy fields. Her current research analyses the range of influences on disability policy in Australia and internationally, such as the implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the shift towards market-based social services delivery.
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Dr Ani Wierenga is a researcher, author and educator with a local and global focus on creating strong and live-able futures, especially with and for younger generations. Enjoying developing the art of the impossible, her early career experiences as youth practitioner shaped her as a strategic thinker and program leader, now equipping others across the higher education industry, government, decision makers and community. As a cross-disciplinary communicator she brings research and practice expertise in young people's wellbeing, learning, engagement, citizenship and active social participation. With a long-standing interest in addressing social inequalities, she has a strong interest in global sustainability, and a passion for communities of practice who work with young people.
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Professor in Social Research of Marginalisation. I do research with people who use drugs, are at risk and live with hepatitis C, people in prison, sex workers and Aboriginal people with these experiences. I contribute to large scale evaluations of new models of care for marginalised people; I run a national stigma indicators project for blood borne viruses. I run a Community Reference Panel to provide a way for researchers to consult with people with lived experience. I work in health and social policy via positions on government, health agency and community advisory committees.
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Bingqin Li’s research is on social policy and governance. She has devoted all her academic career to make social policy in China to be more inclusive. Her current projects include governance of age-friendly community, local government motivation in delivering complex social programs, social inclusion and integration, urban governance, and social spending. She has particular expertise on China, and works also on other countries in Asia, and on comparative studies of policies between Asia and the West. Her research has been published in academic journals in urban studies and social policy, such as Urban Studies, Environment & Urbanisation, Social Policy & Administration and Public Administration and Development.
Bingqin Li has played an important role in introducing international social policy research to China, through editing two series of translated series of key texts.
Bingqin has also consulted international organisations, such as the World Bank, European Union, the WHO, UNESCAP, IIED, and the DFID. She has also collaborative research relationship with UNRISD, top Chinese universities and think tanks such as DRC and CASS in China.
She is frequently invited to give talks in universities and give public talks in Europe and Asia.
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I have almost 30 years of experience as an expert researcher, policy writer and governmental and NGO advisor on workforce ageing. My interests include individual orientations to work and retirement, employer behaviour towards older workers and international developments in public policy aimed at extending working life.
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I'm a PhD student in Economics
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I am a PhD candidate in International Relations at Nuffield College, Oxford University. My research interests are in international political economy, behavioural psychology, climate governance and firm-level behaviour. My PhD uses a theory of reputation to explain non-rational behaviour of agents (leaders, states and firms) in (1) the design of Preferential Trade Agreements, (2) why firms disclose carbon emissions and (3) why states and organisations delegate foreign aid to third parties. I use a mixture of causal inference techniques, modern statistical analysis and novel computational methods with large-n data and formal modelling.
I have experience working on education policy, welfare policies and the EU, trade policy, the WTO vaccine waiver negotiations, banking regulation, and international climate agreements.
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IPL Fellow