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Professor of Sociology, Dean of Social Sciences
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Belma Haznedar holds a PhD in Linguistics from Durham University, UK. She is currently a full Professor of Applied Linguistics at Boğaziçi University. Prof. Haznedar is a linguist whose expertise area focuses on early childhood bilingualism, with special reference to the acquisition of morphosyntactic properties of successive and simultaneous language acquisition in children. In her recent work she also investigates (i) language teaching to young children; (ii) literacy development in monolingual and bilingual children.
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I am a PhD researcher at the Centre of Development Studies, University of Cambridge interested in questions of power and governance. I research humanitarian praxis, meaning-making processes, and politics of assistance and asylum-seeking. More broadly, my interests lie at the intersection of participatory research, social innovation, and inclusive social development.
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Chair Arts & Creativities Research Group, Asst. Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge
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Associate Professor in Social Work. My area of interest is gender based violence and a social justice approach to community based organizational practice.
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A phd-candidate at School of Social Work, Lund University, interested in public organisations as intersection points that organize relation between individuals and society. She also studies de-implementation of low value interventions in order to implement high-quality interventions assesing homelessness and vulnerability of people with SMI.
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Liviu Matei is a professor of higher education and public policy, and head of the School of Education, Communication and Society at King's College London. He taught at universities in Europe and the U.S., consulted extensively in higher education policy, and conducted applied policy research projects for international intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, national authorities and universities from Europe and Asia. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the American University of Central Asia, and founder of the Global Observatory on Academic Freedom.
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Weiyu ZHANG is the founder and director of the Civic Tech Lab. She is also an Associate Professor at the Department of Communication and New Media, National University of Singapore. She's also a Principal Investigator at the NUS Centre for Trusted Internet and Community.
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Dr Debbie Ling is a compassion and common humanity researcher, educator and lecturer at Monash University, Australia. She is a leader in the compassion training field and developed the award winning "Compassion Training for Healthcare Workers" short online course. Over three thousand people have completed the course. It is compulsory curriculum in two medical degrees. Debbie collaborated with researchers at RAND Corporation and Stellenbosch University to pilot compassion training on health workers in HIV clinics in South Africa to support staff and improve patient retention.
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I am an enthusiastic social researcher and advocate at the nexus between gender justice and sustainable development. Currently, I am working on a project by Naripokkho, Redress, and Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust that seeks reparations for sexual violence survivors of the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War. A final year undergraduate student of sociology and criminology at Monash University Australia, I am particularly interested in researching and promoting justice reinvestment and sustainable methods to justice with a particular focus in South-East Asia.