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Dr Taehee CHOI researches policy or reform processes, teacher change therein, and their interaction with languages. Dr Choi has taught the youth and the teachers in South Korea, the US, the UK and Hong Kong. Through the Asian Productivity Organisation, she has advised governments and educational institutes of the UN ESCAP countries. She has contributed to social justice through these activities, particularly in a reform context.
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Dr. Sabrina SU is a Research Assistant Professor at the Department of Applied Social Sciences, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She obtained her PhD degree from the University of Hong Kong in September 2017 and has been doing mixed-method studies about youth development, career support services, organizational behaviors, workplace wellbeing, and capacity building among youth work practitioners. She is concerned about the career and life development of young people in general, and youth at risk in specific, such as youth not in education, employment or training (NEET), youth with prolonged social withdrawal behaviors (hikikomori and semi-hikikomori), educationally disadvantaged youth, youth with special education needs, and young mothers. The potential of her concepts such as collective psychological ownership (CPO), experience-driven recognition (EDR), and more enabling others (MEO) are recognized by international reviewers with regard to promoting individual agency and shared agency for enhancing the sustainable career and life development of diverse groups of people in various contexts.
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Dr Charlotte Goodburn is a Senior Lecturer in Chinese Politics and Development, and Deputy Director of the Lau China Institute, at King's College London. Her research focuses on rural-urban migration and urbanisation; comparative development in Asia, especially of China and India; gender and household dynamics; childhood and intergenerational poverty; identity registration and access to social welfare.
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Ali is a senior global health and development researcher with 17 years of experience, involving research in 12 countries of Asia, Africa, Europe and North America. He is the Founding President of the Inclusive Development Foundation (IDF), India - https://inc-dev.in/ - and is a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), UK. His publications are listed at https://ali-mehdi.com/research-1.
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Tony Bovaird is Chief Executive of Governance International, a non-profit organization working throughout Europe, and Emeritus Professor of Public Management and Policy at INLOGOV, University of Birmingham, UK. His research covers user and community co-production of public services, strategic management in the public sector, performance measurement in social policy, and evaluation of public management and governance reforms. In the UK he has acted as advisor to the UK Cabinet Office, the Scottish and Welsh Government sand the Northern Ireland Local Governance Association, and internationally to governments in New Zealand, India and Brazil. He has undertaken research for UK Research Councils, the European Commission, many UK government departments, National Audit Office, and many other public bodies in the UK and internationally. He is co-author (with Elke Loeffler) of Public Management and Governance (Routledge, 3rd edition 2016) and the Palgrave Handbook of Co-production of Public Services and Outcomes (Palgrave, 2021).