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Acting Director of Iriss, a charitable company that promotes positive outcomes for the people who use Scotland's social services.
Improving lives through knowledge, evidence and innovation.
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Assistant Professor, Institute for Health and Social Policy and Department of Philosophy, McGill University, Canada.
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Rebekah graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in Science, Technology, and Society (STS). Her thesis on the historical and political development of the Internet protocols (TCP/IP) won the Society of the College prize. She spent two years working at a law firm and with a digital rights NGO in the United States prior to Cambridge. Rebekah graduated in 2015 with an MPhil in Technology Policy from the Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge. She started a PhD in October 2015 in the Cambridge Sociology department.
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Dr. Jennifer A. Delaney is an Associate Professor of Higher Education in the Department of Education Policy, Organization and Leadership at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is also the Director of the Forum on the Future of Public Education at the University of Illinois. Dr. Delaney’s research focuses on higher education policy, with an emphasis on finance. She has published extensively in the areas of student financial aid, state budgeting for higher education, and on related topics of higher education policy. She worked for the US Department of Education and the US Congress on issues of student financial aid with the Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance from 2000-2002. From 2003-2005, she was a policy analyst with the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, where she contributed to the Measuring Up reports, state-by-state report cards on higher education performance. She also served as a consultant for the Commission on the Future of Higher Education (under US Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings) in 2005-2006. Dr. Delaney served as chair of the Council for Public Policy in Higher Education from 2011-2014 with the Association for the Study of Higher Education. In 2014, she was the Faculty Fellow for the Illinois Board of Higher Education. Previously she was an assistant professor of higher education at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Dr. Delaney earned a Ph.D. in Higher Education Administration from Stanford University, an Ed.M. in Higher Education from Harvard University, and a B.A. in English from the University of Michigan.
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PhD researchers and policy advisor at University of Cambridge. Looking at online social interactions and future use of virtual assistants.
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I am a professor of political science. Me research focuses on citizen participation, civil society and democracy, focusing on Latin America and, more recently, sub-Saharan Africa. My current research focuses specifically on the rights of Indigenous peoples and challenges of reconciliation reconciliation from a comparative perspective,
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I am a PhD Candidate at the University of Amsterdam. I have long-term working experience in inclusive development, policy formulation, gender and child rights.
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PhD Candidate, Development Studies
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I am an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto. My academic work focuses mainly on the intersections of race, crime and criminal justice. I am studying developments in drug policy.
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Timothy Hodges is Professor of Practice in Strategic Approaches to Global Affairs at McGill University's Institute for the Study of International Development (ISID) where, in his work focuses on the application of strategic foresight methodologies in global affairs, the negotiation and implementation of international sustainable development treaties by Indigenous Peoples, governments and stakeholders.
Concurrently, he is Principal Consultant at Timothy J Hodges & Associates, providing leadership training and confidential strategic advisory services to governments, industry, private non-profit organizations, and indigenous and local communities in support of legally-binding treaty and commercial agreement negotiations, foresight analysis and anticipatory planning for organizational resilience.
Timothy Hodges is a former career Canadian diplomat, with a focus on environmental, economic, and trade policy issues including, for example, in the UN General Assembly, G8, WTO, APEC, the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, UN Food and Agricultural Organization, UNESCO, OECD, Organization of American States, NAFTA, and the Arctic Council.
He served as Co-Chair, intergovernmental negotiating committee for the United Nations treaty on Access and Benefit-sharing of Genetic Resources (Nagoya Protocol), 2006-2010.
Timothy Hodges is past President of the Canadian Professional Association of Foreign Service Officers (PAFSO).