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Research Assistant with the Japan Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Hold a M.S. in Foreign Service from Georgetown SFS and B.A. in Japanese, Anthropology, and International Relations from Pacific University. Previously conducted research on sustainable and urban development as well as immigration policy for the City of Sapporo. Currently research Indo-Pacific disinformation, the U.S.-Japan alliance, and Japanese ODA. Interested in branching out to international economic issues.
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Registered Social Worker,; Associate Professor; Chair McMaster Research Ethics Board. My research focuses on the relationship between policy and practice for social workers and service users. My research also considers the significance of digital media in supporting self advocacy and critique for Social Workers and members of equity seeking groups.
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Professor of international relations at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques (IEP), University of Lausanne, Switzerland, co-founder of the Centre of International History and Political Studies of Globalization (CRHIM). He has worked for the last twenty years on regulation issues in global political economy. His research focuses on transnational private governance, international standards, service offshoring, and more recently on labour and sustainability standards, risk and uncertainty, and platform capitalism. See: www.unil.ch/unisciences/jean-christophegraz
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I am Full Professor of Education in UCD School of Education and Vice Principal for Research, Innovation and Impact in UCD College of Social Sciences and Law. My specialist field is sociology, researching at the intersection of sociologies of education and sociologies of childhood, and the impact of education on society. I am currently leading two large-scale mixed methods longitudinal studies exploring children’s schooling experiences in Ireland (Children’s School Lives www.cslstudy.ie) and in Sierra Leone (the Safe Learning Study; www.safelearning.ie).
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Saiida LAZAAR holds a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Aix Marseille I University in France and currently serves as a Full Professor at AbdelMalek Essaadi University at ENSA of Tangier in Morocco, and an Expert Evaluator with the European Commission. With extensive expertise in cybersecurity, Dr. Lazaar has played a role as the head of the Master's program in CyberSecurity and CyberCrime. Her track record includes notable research positions such as CNRS and IFP in France, as well as ONDRAF in Belgium. More at ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3426-4050
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Gaurav is a Healthcare Consultant, driven by a desire to unify decentralised health, welfare schemes & academic fellowships more accessible for eligible beneficiaries. He is the Founder of Karmanya (NPO) a digital platform enabling ‘accessible health, welfare & education for the last-mile communities’ centred around government welfare schemes and academic fellowships with end-to-end application support.
Gaurav believes that shortfall in tech acumen or cognizance shouldn't cause a setback; rather, technology should be tailored to the user’s needs and capabilities.
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Mariana is a University Fellow in Transdisciplinary, Human-Centred Design Innovation and Practice at the University of Salford Manchester. Her research has been identifying and mapping local communities' tacit knowledge, actions and strategies that are not (or are poorly) documented in areas of health and well-being challenges. Her work focusses on under-represented and disadvantaged groups. It helps to identify public policy and service gaps and has the potential to inform the development of more effective solutions (e.g., technologies, services and policies) from the outset.
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Professor of Disability Studies and Inclusive Education, Associate Dean Equity and Diversity, Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Auckland, New Zealand. Particular interest in inclusive pedagogies, curriculum and assessment; socially constructed discourses of difference. Previously Professor and Head of School of Educational Studies and Leadership, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.