Dr. Michèle Hofmann is the head of the Research Center “Historical and Comparative Childhood and Youth Studies” at the Institute of Education, University of Zurich. Her academic interests include the medicalization of education, the history of (special needs) education in Switzerland, and the history of childhood.

I am a registered psychologist and teacher. Currently I teach in the Masters in Educational and Developmental Psychology programme, supervise Master's and doctoral students. I am also currently the Director of Academic Programmes in the Institute of Education. I am based in the Palmerston North campus, which is the Central North Island of New Zealand. My research interests sit within the ambit of inclusive education and social justice. I research in the field of autism and interested in research that ensures that the voices of families and children are heard alongside those of teachers.

Currently postdoctoral fellow at the Université de Montréal on interdisciplinarity, scientific careers and the social stratification of science, symbolic hierarchy of epistemologies in the biological sciences. Previously postdoc at the Swiss Elite Observatory, University of Lausanne, Switzerland, on the power elite with both a sociological and a historical approach, with a focus on power through relations such as kinship, residential proximity, interlocking directorates and careers. Areas of expertise: scientific elites, social stratification in science, interdisciplinarity, public policies.

Dr Tim Legrand is Associate Professor of International Security at the University of Adelaide. He is the author of The Architecture of Policy Transfer (Palgrave, 2022) and Banning Them, Securing Us (MUP, 2021). His work has been also published in Policy & Society, Public Administration, Political Studies, Security Dialogue and other leading international journals.