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I am a Lecturer in Economics at the University of Bristol and an external research fellow at The Centre of Research in Economic Development and International Trade (CREDIT) at the University of Nottingham. I obtained my PhD from the University of Nottingham in 2017 and the title of my thesis was "Essays in Poverty and Household Analysis in Africa". I have a number of ongoing research on a range of topics including; how growth has translated to poverty reduction across Sub-Saharan African countries, the use of pseudo-panel estimation techniques on household surveys, the effect of household income diversification on welfare in Uganda and Tanzania, and the analysis of agricultural production in Tanzania. I have previously held positions as a Research Fellow at the University of Nottingham, a Visiting Scholar Intern at the Institute of Statistical, Social, and Economic Research (ISSER) in Ghana, and as a Research Assistant at the Bank of England.
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An Anthropologist who is passionate to work towards the documentation, preservation and promotion of cultural heritage of mountain communities of Gilgit Baltistan by engaging youth and elders.
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Malu A. C. Gatto is Assistant Professor of Latin American Politics at the Institute of the Americas at University College London (UCL). Previously, she was a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Political Science at the University of Zurich. Gatto's work explores questions about women's political representation and participation, gendered political behavior and policy-making with a regional focus on Latin America, especially Brazil. Her academic research has been published in the JPLA and PS. She has also provided analysis on Brazilian politics and women's political representation for, among others, the Financial Times, the Washington Post, the BBC, and El País. She holds a BA from Barnard College (2011), and an MSc (2012) and DPhil (2016) from the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford.
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Dr Aran Martin is a Research Fellow at the Melbourne School of Government and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal Global Change, Peace and Security. From 2008-2014 he was a Project Manager with the Centre for Dialogue at La Trobe University. His research interests include international relations, conflict resolution, environmental politics and global civil society.
Dr Martin is a member of the Australian Attorney General’s Department, Countering Violent Extremism Research Panel and the Victorian Department of Premier & Cabinet's Research Institute on Social Cohesion.
His most recent project was a qualitative review commissioned by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade of the experience of Australian government personnel involved in conflict prevention, peacemaking and peacebuilding programming. Its aim was to derive lessons learnt for the Department to improve its capacity to work more effectively upstream to address the drivers of conflict and to develop new policy and programming tools for early action in response to emerging risks of conflict and instability.
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Lecturer in Econometrics with strong interests in policy
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I am a Senior Economist at the Bank of Canada, working within Financial Studies (FinStud) on heterogeneity in the wealth, income and consumption distributions as well as on entrepreneurship and self-employment. I hold a PhD in Economics from University College London, focusing on wealth mobility, inequality and entrepreneurship in macoreconomic modelling and utilising longitudinal data. My personal website is www.thomasmichaelpugh.com
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Associate Professor, Queen Mary, University of London.
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Dr Katherine Saunders-Hastings is Assistant Professor/Lecturer in Latin American Studies at University College London’s Institute of the Americas, where she teaches and researches on urban and political anthropology. Katherine’s research interests encompass issues of violence, (in)security, illicit economies, citizenship, and governance in Latin American cities. Her recent work has focused particularly on the effects of changing patterns of gang violence in Central America on local life and governance practices.
Katherine was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University’s Centre on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law. She earned her doctorate in Socio-Legal Studies from the University of Oxford in 2015 and holds a B.A. in Anthropology and History from McGill University and an MPhil in Latin American Studies from the University of Cambridge. She has worked with the International Centre for the Prevention of Crime (Montréal, Canada) and the Asociación para el Avance de las Ciencias Sociales (Guatemala City, Guatemala). Her research has been supported by fellowships from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Clarendon Fund, and the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation.
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Sara Ketabi is an international public figure known for her foreign policy entrepreneurship, political economy and global governance research, and advising international development and sustainability (IDS) for the United Nations. She has led policy consulting for developing governments via Hale and CollatEd Lab, directly influencing legislation and pioneering evidence-informed strategy and decision-making.
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Interested in collaborating with other interested parties to deliver a well researched articles that can provide an informed choice for a better policy decision-making outcome.