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M.Phil. in Economics, Studies Economics (Public Policy and Development; research-based master’s program with a focus on quantitative policy analysis, empirical policy design and evaluation) at Paris School of Economics, Paris, France. Have worked in areas like development, sustainability, gender and environment. Research Interest: Inclusive Development, Environment.
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Dr Baron is an Associate Professor in the School of Government and International Relations and Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Jewish Culture, Society and Politics at Durham University. His research explores different ways that we experience international politics in our everyday lives. To date, he has written on post-truth politics, the Jewish Diaspora's relationship with Israel, and the international cultural politics of Israeli cuisine. In addition, he has written on violence, the ethics of war, identity and security, and International Relations theory. He has held visiting posts at the London School of Economics, the University of British Columbia, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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Professor Anoush Ehteshami is Professor of International Relations in the School of Government and International Affairs, Durham University. He is the Nasser al-Mohammad al-Sabah Chair in International Relations and Director of the HH Sheikh Nasser al-Mohammad al-Sabah Programme in International Relations, Regional Politics and Security. He is, further, Director of the Institute for Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies (IMEIS) at Durham, one of the oldest and noted centres of excellence in Middle Eastern studies in Europe. He acts as Co-director (2016-2021) of the £3.9 million AHRC-funded Open Worlds Initiative entitled Cross-Language Dynamics: Reshaping Community. Previously (2006-2016), he acted as Joint Director of the nationally (RCUK)-funded Durham-Edinburgh-Manchester Universities’ research and training Centre for the Advanced Study of the Arab World (CASAW).
He was Durham University’s first Dean of Internationalization, 2009-2011, and was the founding Head of the School of Government and International Affairs (2004-9). He has been a Fellow of the World Economic Forum, and served as a member of the WEF’s foremost body, the Global Agenda Councils, 2010-12, focusing on energy. He was Vice-President and Chair of Council of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) 2000-2003. He is Editor of two major book series on the Middle East and the wider Muslim world, and is member of Editorial Board of seven international journals.
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I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Cambridge and an APSA Public Scholar.
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Paolo’s research is concerned with the conceptual and contextual relation between borders, migration and development, and focuses on the contested geographies produced by such relation (territoriality, scale; spatialities and temporalities of borders and migration; legal/policy labels and political subjectivities); and on processes of legal and institutional change associated to it (refugee law and refugee regime; asylum reception systems; humanitarianism). Paolo has conducted field research in Peshawar (Pakistan), Macerata (Italy), Meghalaya (India), Cairo (Egypt). His current research project is titled: “Asylum seeker’s reception: taxonomies and location”.
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I work on public banks and alternative strategies of development. This includes questions of how public banks may contribute to definancialisation, decarbonisation, and the democratisation of finance.
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My name is Likoko. I come from Kenya. I am currently a PhD candidate at the University of Amsterdam in the department of Human Geography, Planning and International Development and part of the Governance and Inclusive Development research group at the same university. After a Bachelor’s degree in Social work and at the University of Nairobi, I completed an MSc in Sustainable Development at the Uppsala University in Sweden with a research on Ecological Waste Management (Ecological Management of Human Excreta in an Urban Slum: A Case Study of Mukuru in Kenya). I am now part of a research team studying “Women Food Entrepreneurs in Kenya and Burkina Faso. Building inclusive business models for food security in the city slums of Kisumu and Ouagadougou” as a comparative study of two cities. Using mixed methods in my research, I focus on Kisumu city where I examine the conditions necessary for women survival entrepreneurs to transition to growth entrepreneurship using the inclusive business framework; with a specific interest in the urban informal settlements, agribusiness and gender dynamics.
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Student in political sciences, member of an association on gender equality in Belgium.
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As a Master's student, I'm currently undertaking an internship with the Social and Human Sciences Unit at UNESCO Jakarta Office. Also, I am working on my dissertation on inclusive and supportive systems for family reintegration. With experience working in the area related to Social Protection, especially Child Protection, I would like to gain and share research that contributes to achieving more inclusive societies through this platform.
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Senior Lecturer in Migration, Mobility and Development, Department of Development Studies, SOAS, University of London. Interested in global migration politics and experiences. My research has focused on remittances and livelihoods, refugees, displacement, Somali mobilities, as well as migrants' access to justice, immigration detention, civic mobilisation around immigration in Europe.