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Dr Laura Bedford is a Lecturer in the Criminology at Deakin University. Laura has a PhD in Criminology awarded by the University of Queensland. Her thesis, Randomised Controlled Trials in Policing: An Organisational Learning Perspective, focused on the challenge of translating rigorous criminological research into evidence-based policy and practice in police organisations. She has led and contributed to a range of collaborative research projects and programs of research, and written numerous research reports and scholarly papers. She worked as an embedded criminologist at the Queensland Police Service (QPS), where she was the lead researcher on a two-year randomised controlled field evaluation of the role and impact of frontline mobile technology. Currently, Laura is working to advance knowledge related to green criminology, environmental crime, resistance and activism. Laura has worked for many years in complex, multisectoral contexts where she has gained a solid understanding of the challenge of engaging stakeholders to initiate and implement high quality, inclusive policy research, and translate good research into sound, implementable and effective policy.
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Dr Monique Mann is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology and member of the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation at Deakin University. Dr Mann is an Adjunct Researcher with the Law, Science, Technology and Society Research Centre at Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
Mann's research expertise concerns three main interrelated lines of inquiry: (1) new technology for policing and surveillance, (2) human rights and social justice, and (3) governance and regulation. She is author of ‘Politicising and Policing Organised Crime‘ (Routledge, 2020), ‘Biometrics, Crime and Security‘ (Routledge, 2018), and editor of ‘Good Data‘ (Institute of Network Cultures, 2019).
Mann has contributed to advancing Australia’s national research agenda through her activities not only as an academic and author, but also as an advocate, media commentator, and expert policy advisor.
She is Vice Chair of the Australian Privacy Foundation and Vice President of Liberty Victoria.
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Heritage Consultant from Sydney Australia
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Associate Professor - Social Work - Social Policy - Masaryk University, Brno Czech Republic
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I am the Network engagement manager for the Mission-Oriented Innovation Network for UCL.
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I am a PhD researcher working in the field of e-governance and public sector innovation, with a particular interest in the applications of blockchain technology, identity and access management and digital transformation of the public sector.
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Zhang Ziqi is an associate professor and master supervisor of the Department of architecture of Shanghai Jiao Tong University. She obtains bachelor of architecture and doctor of engineering from Zhejiang University; she is also the joint Ph.D of the University of Tokyo supported by the China Scholarship Council (CSC), and a special research scholar of Tokyo Institute of Technology supported by MEXT. Zhang’s research focuses on the psychological research on the environmental behavior of the elderly in the measurement technology of multi-disciplinary human settlements such as society, geography and public policy, as well as the theory and practice of Rural Revitalization. She has published more than 20 Journal papers and one monograph, participated in the compilation of industry standards, and served as the reviewer of many international journals. Her research is funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the talent project of Shanghai "Chenguang plan", the think tank project of China Association for science and technology, the project of Shanghai decision-making advisory committee and key laboratory; Moreover, she has completed more than ten rural planning practices, exhibitions and device designs.
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Post-doctoral researcher. Natural hazards risk analyst specialized in flood hazards with strong research capacities, skills and in-depth knowledge of all catastrophe modeling parameters. Experience in identifying and addressing vulnerabilities for different types of assets, exposure analysis and hazard assessments based on deterministic and probabilistic model approaches.
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Nándor PETROVICS works as an assistant lecturer at the Department of Public Policy and Management at the Corvinus University of Budapest (Hungary), teaching courses both in English and in Hungarian for public policy and management master students in public policy analysis, cost-benefit analysis, program evaluation, and multi-level governance.
He is a doctoral student at the Doctoral School of Political Science and International Relations. His doctoral research focuses on governance networks in night-time economies, but his area of interest also covers public service co-production and other questions of network governance.
Nándor also has significant consultancy experience in different areas of public policy analysis and cost-benefit analysis for public investment projects.
Research topics: Governance Networks; Urban Governance; Network Governance; Public Service Co-Production; Night Studies; Night-Time Economy; Night-Time Governance; Public Policy Analysis; Cost-Benefit Analysis; Program Evaluation
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Consultant with FTI Consulting. Several years of international experience working on issues in financial markets, public policy and development. Currently working on professional projects related to building a sustainable and accessible financial system in developing economies. Also interested in urban planning, connectivity and infrastructure. Graduate of the University of Oxford (MSc, Department of International Development) and the University of St Andrews (MA Hons, School of International Relations and Modern Languages).