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Zhamilya Mukasheva is doing her PhD on the causes of retrenchment in higher education in the OECD countries. Her research focuses on the effect of blame avoiding behaviour of politicians on the subsequent retrenchment decisions. As such, her research interests include comparative politics of the welfare state, blame avoidance, and public opinion. She also researches on rentier states, civil wars, and politics of Central Asia.
Prior to beginning her PhD, Zhamilya worked in a social and marketing research firm in Kazakhstan, where she was responsible for developing the design of social and marketing studies and collection of data. She received her Bachelor’s degree from the Kazakh-German University (Almaty, Kazakhstan) and Master’s degree from the Nazarbayev University (Astana, Kazakhstan).
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Research Facilitator at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford. We focus on evidence-based policy for a world better led, better served and better governed.
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Dr Mohammad R. Kalantari is the co-director of the Centre for Islamic & West Asian Studies (CIWAS), and Research Fellow in International Relations of the Middle East at Royal Holloway University of London. His research interest lies in the International Relations of the Middle East with a particular focus on the interaction of regional doctrines, Muslim clerical elites and their transnational networks. He has collaborated actively with policymakers and researchers in various inter-disciplinary projects addressing the contemporary affairs of the Middle East and the Muslim World.
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Research Assistant at Centre for Development and the Environment (University of Oslo) and Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI)
Previous experience from UNDP (Delhi), Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Sarajevo) and Oxford China International Consultancy (OCIC)
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I am a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Education at the University of Oxford. My research interests include teacher education, scientific reasoning and argumentation, as well as research impact. I am currently working on the H2020-funded ‘FEDORA’ project, which investigates students’ future-oriented skills for enhancing responsibility and civic engagement. I am also a member of ‘SciKids’ project, which aims to assess the nature of science teaching in early years education.
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Program manager/researcher at Samuel Hall. International Development practitioner currently working as a researcher and program manager with an international research firm. Deeply passionate about education + health-related issues, particularly with regards to refugees, migrants, and the most marginalised. 10 years experience as an international secondary school educator and holding a MSc, B.Ed. and B.A. I'm looking forward to collaborating with you!
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Associate Professor at the Department of Economics, Universidad de la Republica (Uruguay). PhD in Economics.
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Assistant Professor of Political Science at George Washington University
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Rossella Ciccia is Associate Professor of Social Policy in in the Department of Social Policy and Intervention and a Fellow of Green Templeton College. Her research interests lie in field of comparative social policy with a particular focus on issues relating to social inequalities, gender, care and paid work in Europe and Latin America. She is a member of the international research network Gender Equality Policy in Practice (GEPP), the scientific board of the International Observatory on Social Cohesion and Inclusion and the steering committee of the ECPR Standing Group on Gender and Politics.
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I am the Director of Research at the Institute of Policy Studies of Sri Lanka. i have been involved in many studies that look at inclusiveness in policies in Education, Health, Public Finance, etc.