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Dr. Sirvan Karimi has written his doctoral dissertation on Comparative social policy in Canada and Australia. His PhD dissertation is titled; Social Classes, National Settings, and the Welfare State: The Public Pension Systems in Canada and Australia. His research focuses on Canadian politics, public policy, public administration, and public law . In addition to publishing several scholarly articles, he is the sole author of two scholarly books; Beyond the Welfare State: Postwar Social Settlement and Public Pension Policy in Canada and Australia. Toronto: University of Toronto press, 2017 and The Tragedy of Social Democracy. Winnipeg: Frenwood Publishing, 2015,
He is currently working on research papers related to democratic administration, collective bargaining in Higher Education Settings, the interplay of Charter and Federalism , and Liberalism, Charter and Social Rights.
Dr. Karimi has been teaching courses at both graduate and undergraduate levels since 2007. In addition to teaching at York University, he has also taught courses at Brock and Ryerson Universities. He has been teaching courses along all three streams (Public Policy, Public Administration and Public Law) within the School of Public Policy and Administration curriculum. He has also supervised MRPs for several MA students in the Master of Public Policy, Administration and Law (MPPAL) program.
Dr. Karimi has been recognized for his teaching efforts with a variety of teaching nominations and awards, including being nominated for the President's University-Wide Teaching Award for 2013-2014 and receiving the Dean's Teaching Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Faculty of Liberal Arts &Professional Studies for 2015-2016.
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Emilie’s work focuses on exploring the interactions between different types of environmental interventions, ecological and climate changes, and local livelihoods in resource-dependent communities in terrestrial landscapes. She is interested in monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of development, climate and environmental interventions, especially with regards to the operationalization of complex concepts, such as climate resilience, adaptation and human well-being, into practices in the field.
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I am a Lecturer in Equality Studies at the School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice, University College Dublin. My academic qualifications are in Law and Social Policy and my research interests lie in the area of childhood inequality. My research to date has engaged with various areas of law and policy affecting children and I have a particular interest in the application of governmentality theory to the study of childhood inequality and in the discourses of childhood which shape law and policy for children. Over the past year I have been mainly been focused on collaborative research on the support needs of refugee children, young people and families and am currently involved in research projects on refugee family reunification and refugee integration.
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I am Assistant Professor for Comparative Social Policy. At UCD I teach in the BSocSc Social Policy and Sociology and the Master of Public Policy. By background I am a political scientist and mixed-methods researcher. My research focusses on the privatisation and marketisation of social policies. This includes private pensions, private schools, school choice, housing wealth, inheritances. More recently, I have worked on large families, housing precariousness and family policies (e.g. paternity leave) as well as long-term care funding.
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I do research on political economy and opening up the governance blackbox; currently I am CEO of an NGO working on education in northwestern India.
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Researcher with strong interests in social inclusion; worked on nomadic pastoralists and education inclusion in India, Kenya, Afghanistan, Ethiopia. Also experience of primary teacher education and participatory professional development in India. Currently working on education planning and policy reform in Mongolia.
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Researcher on coastal processes and morphology and lecturer in coastal engineering
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Director of a school of social work - France - Toulouse, Montpellier, Perpignan
VP of the INGO's Conférence of th Council of Europe
Member of the executive committee of the European Association of Schools of Social Work - EASSW
Social worker
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I am an academic in a law school. I work on gender, sexuality and development, with a particular interest in Latin America.
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I have been working/involving in project promoting inclusion especially in education setting