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Assistant Professor in Neural Science and Data Science at NYU, USA
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I am a professor and researcher focused on peace and conflict studies. My main interest is exploring and understanding the role of universities and other higher education institutions as peacebuikding actors, both globally and in their own communities.
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Currently a graduate student taking Masters in Distance Education at the University of the Philippines - Open University. Is also employed as an Educational Technologist at De La Salle University - Manila.
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Professor of International Economics at the International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University, The Netherlands. Works on development issues, trade and investment. Recent books are Deglobalization 2.0; Pandemic Economics and Research Handbooks on Economic Diplomacy and Economic Sanctiosn, repsectively.
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Muhammad Badiuzzaman is currently working as Research Coordinator, at the Centre for Peace and Justice, Brac University. His area of research interest includes peace and conflict, social justice, refugee-statelessness, and political economy analysis. By training he is an economist and he has proven expertise in managing large scale surveys and analysing quantitative data by applying advanced statistical techniques. As research coordinator, he has been playing an important role in the area of partnership with academic institutions, building research capacity, donor liaison, and fund raising. He is responsible to oversee various research activities of the centre to ensure smooth implementation and quality of the works. He actively organises conference, seminar, workshops, public lecture, and policy advocacy with national and international stakeholders. Earlier, he received two research grants from the United Nations University-World Institute of Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER). As recognition to his research, he was given ‘Best Research Paper Award’ in 2010 at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) in the Netherlands. He regularly publishes his research works in journals and edited volumes. Some of his notable publications are; ‘Fiscal Capacity, Democratic Institutions and Social Welfare Outcomes in Developing Countries’, Journal of Defence and Peace Economics (2020); ‘Improving Maternal Health Care in a Post Conflict Setting: Evidence from Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh’ in Journal of Development Studies (2018); and ‘Conflict and Livelihood Decisions in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh’ in an edited volume ‘Poverty Reduction Policies and Practices in Developing Asia’ published by Springer (2016).
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Professor of Sociology and Dean of Human Sciences at UCD. Researcher on higher education especially on access and comparative policy
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I am a Researcher and Lecturer with a background in Design. My projects examine and rethinking existing systems by closely observing geographical, political and cultural changes and their impact on society. Works often result in the production of speculative scenarios and may be disseminated through various media including but not limited to film, text, simulators and events.
Next to my practice I teach Design Thinking at Open University and critical Design at Goldsmiths University.
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AR/VR / Teams evangelist . Passionate about education and mental health support using technology as an enabler.
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Dr. Jan Fransen is senior researcher in Urban Economic Development and Resilience at Erasmus University Rotterdam, working for the Institute of Housing and urban development Studies (IHS). He has over 25 years of experience in local economic development, with a particular interest in urban resilience, community-based organisations, small firm development, informality, clustering, innovation systems, global value chains and institutional economics. He presently conducts studies on urban resilience in Rotterdam, The Hague, Nairobi and internationally. Jan co-supervises PhD students, lectures in master programmes and co-coordinates short courses and a MOOC on Sustainable Local Economic Development. He has completed a wide range of research assignments, consultancies, training and has held various positions, including team leader, senior technical advisor, principal researcher and trainer. He has carried out projects for the World Bank, European Commission, United Nations, NGO’s and several national, regional and local governments worldwide. He has long and short-term working experience in over 25 countries in Africa, Asia and Europe.
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I am an Assistant Professor in Modern Latin American History at Leiden University. I hold a PhD in Development Studies from the International Institute of Social Studies.
My research deals with the gendered, racialised and generational impacts of targeted social protection programmes. The efficacy of social assistance in achieving quantifiable development outcomes has received much attention while turning a blind eye to the broader systemic consequences of these programmes. My research moves beyond policy evaluations of such outcomes. Instead, it seeks to explore the potential role of social protection in perpetuating rather than attenuating existing exclusion and power differentials in Latin America, reproducing various forms of discrimination, domination, oppression, and social fragmentation. It also addresses the normative and material dimensions of redistributive social policies in a context of limited fiscal capacity, engaging with critical questions regarding the financing of social policies and programmes including high levels of indebtedness in the region next to tax evasion.
In my most recent paper, Falling through the cracks: digital infrastructures of social protection in Ecuador, published in Development and Change (2021), I study the politics of exclusion and inclusion that permeate digital infrastructures, particularly data infrastructures such as social registries, that are used to target Ecuador's most prominent social assistance programme, Bono de Desarrollo Humano, and the COVID-related programme Bono de Protección Familiar. While in my paper, Institutionalising Segregation: Women, Conditional Cash Transfers, and Paid Employment in Southern Ecuador, Population and Development Review (2019), I question perversity claims associated with cash transfers and flag processes of gender segregation in the labour market. My research contributes to interdisciplinary work on development studies, with a focus on social policy. Situated within development studies and informed by political economy, anthropology of the state, and sociology of gender and race; it seeks to understand how social policy shapes social and political identities. To that aim, I have adopted an intersectional approach, attentive to gender, age, class, race, and ethnicity. Most of my empirical research has focused on Ecuador, though I have written more broadly about Latin America.