77 profiles found

I am currently pursuing an ESRC-funded PhD at the LSE Department of Gender Studies. My research has involved collecting media data, textual analysis, synthesis of complex information, identification of themes, and communicating with non-academic audiences. My areas of research expertise include power and inequalities, gender and its implications, race in society, and the intersections of gender, race and sexuality. I hold a BSc in Psychology (I) from the University of Warwick, and an MSc in Gender (Distinction) from the Department of Gender Studies, LSE. My professional experience includes publishing, market research, teaching, and talent acquisition and development.

Social Data Scientist, currently a Fellow in Public Policy at the LSE, with experience consulting for UN agencies, NGOs and local government.  

My thesis, entitled ‘Revolution and its Dislocations: Syria's 2011 Moment as Conceived by its Creators’, focuses on decentralised anti-hierarchical organising in the Syrian uprising While pursuing my studies part-time, I work for a research centre, have been on the editorial board of a journal, have taught sociological theory to LSE undergrads, serve on an academic society’s communications committee, have published my research and been awarded prizes for my conference presentations. My academic expertise is in the politics and societies of the Middle East, with a particular focus on Syria and Israel/Palestine. I have published on MENA social movements, am currently helping conduct research for a book by Vincent Bevins on this topic, and have a wide survey knowledge of other issues (particularly to do with regional geopolitics) through my six years working as the Communications Coordinator (and now Manager) at the LSE Middle East Centre. Before that I worked as an editor for Hurst Publishers (who are known for their MENA, Africa and Asia lists), a researcher for Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME), and a translator for a museum in Al-Quds University dedicated to the Palestinian prisoners’ movement. I have lived in Jordan and Palestine and have a good level of spoken Levantine Arabic and am proficient in Modern Standard Arabic. Given the overlap between my professional experience, my excellent teaching record as a GTA at LSE last year, and my academic expertise (I am midway through my PhD, have published one academic piece and received a prize for an unpublished conference paper), I am well placed to offer research assistance on projects involving international development, regional politics in the Middle East and North Africa (Syria in particular), governance structures, local service provision, among other topics.

Dr Meg Peterson is a scholar, artist, cultural leader, and activist whose work has taken her around the globe to use art and creativity as a means of connecting people and communities. She is the Founder of 21 Artists, an artist development project and consultancy focused on fostering, documenting, and evaluating art and social change through artist development, social impact, and research. Projects utilise inclusive, democratic and participatory methodologies to develop research and evaluation frameworks with UK-based organisations such as Whitechapel Gallery, Battersea Arts Centre, LIFT, World Heart Beat, People’s Palace Projects and more. Meg’s international experience has taken her to the US, Brazil, Ghana, Greece and Italy as a consultant, educator, curator, and artist, encouraging learning and collaboration through exchange programmes, research projects, courses, workshops, and seminars. Meg is also a Lecturer in the Department for Culture, Media, and Creative Industries at King’s College London where she is the Course Director of the BA Programme, pioneering research and teaching focusing on cultural entrepreneurship, cultural policy, creativity, and creative social change.

This is Noel Mariam George. I am a research scholar at the LSE International History Department. Before joining LSE, I did my Masters in International Relations at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi and my M. Phil in Political Science at the University of Hyderabad. This training, along with several political changes in India, piqued my research interest in Indian citizenship and refugees. Later, through my engagement with Tibetscapes in IIT Madras, I began to re-work minority histories outside the framework of national citizenship and through the lens of refugees and transregional migration. My current project is a comparative case study of the two largest post-partition refugee communities in India: Tamil ‘repatriates’ from Sri Lanka vis-à-vis Tibetan ‘foreign guests’.  I attempt to decode how refugees tactically emphasize or downplay identities as per the demands of national and local recognition.   I aim to build transferable skills by which, my research is not limited to the confines of academia, but will find real-world applications. 

I am a dual-qualified lawyer, licensed to practice as an advocate in India and as an attorney in New York, United States (admission pending) with a demonstrated interest in environment related international trade law and policy issues. My interests include the role of trade in achieving SDGs, interests and challenges of developing countries in trade and environment issues and the interaction of MEAs and international trade law and policy.  I have previously worked with the Government of India and the World Trade Organization. I have also completed the International Business and Economic Law LL.M. with the WTO and International Trade Studies Certificate at Georgetown University Law Center with distinction and honours.

Current role: postdoctoral fellow, European Institute, London School of Economics PhD topic: How can we get local firms to work with each other to achieve mutually beneficial outcomes and foster local development in low-trust settings?  My publications in Politics & Society (2021) and Governance (2022) address the causes and impacts of Brexit in post-industrial areas in the UK.  Other relevant experience: Worked at the European Commission's Structural Reform Support Service (now DG reform) and in the office of the Greek Minister of Education Expertise: local development, cooperation, cohesion policy, agricultural policy, education policy Methods: comparative case study design, interviews, fieldwork, mixed methods Geographical focus: Greece, Italy, UK  Languages: English, Greek, German, Italian, French

Nihan Albayrak-Aydemir is an academic, currently working as a postdoctoral researcher at the Open University, as a visiting researcher at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and as a visiting fellow at the LSE. She completed her PhD in Social Psychology at the LSE, and she has over 10 years of experience in survey research and data analysis, ranging from running small-scale surveys for hard-to-reach samples to running large-scale multi-country surveys for more general, representative samples. Her research expertise and interests involve prosocial behaviour, migration, and meta-science, with a special focus on power dynamics and intergroup relations that influence research, teaching, and learning processes in science and higher education. She has a deep understanding of survey methodology and a strong track record of designing and implementing complex survey projects for a wide range of clients. She has excellent analytical skills, with the ability to turn complex data into actionable insights and recommendations.

My interests broadly lie in literature/ visual media, politics and human rights. I am currently pursuing my Masters in Human Rights and Politics on a scholarship that covers my tuition and most of my living expenses (Margaret Basu Fund Award) at LSE. I am deeply interested in exploring questions around migration, social exclusion, citizenship, marxism, indian politics and cinema, news media, cultural hegemony, nationalism, democracies, and inequality.

Experienced economic development consultant with seven years of experience in industrial development and trade integration. Skilled in qualitative research,  project management and strategic planning.

Dr Shweta Khandelwal is Head, Nutrition Research at the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI), Delhi. She is a trained and experienced public health nutrition researcher working in the maternal child health and nutrition space in India for the last 17 years. Shweta teaches nutrition epidemiology especially in relation to the rising overweight-obesity, diet related non-communicable diseases and their risk factors among the Indian population. She has served on expert government panels on topics like oils and fats, sustainable healthy diets and combating high fat, sugar and salt in Indian population etc. As a Women Lift Health fellowship awardee, Shweta is a sincere advocate for gender equity and women empowerment especially in nutrition. She is also the Lead for capacity building initiatives in Public Health Nutrition at PHFI and CCDC. In addition to more than 80 peer reviewed articles in scholarly journals, she has contributed to more than 160 media pieces including 50 op-eds in leading international and national print and online platforms. Shweta has also won several prestigious awards, fellowships and grants in the area of nutrition and chronic diseases.

I am an LL.M. (Master of Laws) candidate at the London School of Economics and Political Science. I am a motivated individual with a demonstrated interest in the areas of International Trade Law and Investment Treaty Law (and their linkage with developmental, environmental and human rights studies). Currently, I am a part-time research assistant at the Permanent Mission of the State of Qatar to the World Trade Organisation.  I have previously interned at the Centre for Trade and Investment Law (established by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Government of India), Indian Institute of Foreign Trade. Here, I undertook research on the usage of non-WTO law as substantive law before WTO disputes, on the dispute settlement history of various cases before the WTO, on matters of international taxation and on the establishment narrative of globalisation. I was chosen to participate as a youth delegate at the UNCTAD15 Youth Forum. I contributed to the drafting of the UNCTAD Youth Declaration and examined carbon border taxes, from a trade, developmental and environmental perspective. It enhanced my ability to work closely with people from different ethnicities and diverse backgrounds and arrive at mediated solutions accounting for multiple interests.  I also interned at the Department of Juvenile Justice and Child Welfare, Government of the State of Telangana, India, through which I gained crucial managerial skills in addition to an insight into the child rights paradigm in India. I am proficient in the usage of MS Word, MS Excel and MS PowerPoint. I am fluent in English, Hindi and Telugu and possess a basic knowledge of French.

Dr. Julia King is a Research Fellow at LSE Cities and a design practitioner. Trained as an architect her research, design practice, and teaching focus on urban marginalization, infrastructure, and public space. She is the director of the ‘Apprenticeship Programme in City Design’ and ‘Researcher in Residence’ scheme at LSE Cities. Both are novel outreach programmes which work with young adults to learn through practice at the LSE. Recent engagement has resulted in the real-time design development and realisation of several public space projects by the developers of Wembley Park from 2021 onwards. It is a legacy project of Seen and Heard - a study of privatised public space and youth culture - a project coordinated by Julia and commissioned by Brent 2020. More recent work with young girls has focused on the provision of space for young girls working in Crewe and Trowbridge. She has won numerous awards for her work including Emerging Woman Architect of the Year (2014), NLA Award, Civic Trust Regional Award and short-listed for a Deutsche Bank Urban Age Award. Her projects have been widely publicised, and she has authored chapters in ‘Home Economics’ (2016) and ‘Infrastructure Space’ (2017) and co-authored a chapter in ‘The SAGE Handbook of the 21st Century City’ (2017). She has previously taught on the Cities Programme at LSE and currently runs a BA unit at the Architectural Association.

Delivers scalable ICT Solutions and cutting-edge analytics by leveraging 10+ years of ICT Smart City Expertise.   Smart City Project Management | Smart Services Implementation | ICT Design | IT Transformation | Big Data Analysis   Smarty City Project Lifecycle  Urban Environment Design Principles Sustainability in ICT IT Vendor & Contract Management Digital Awareness ICT Strategy Consultancy Digital Master Plans Big Data Analytics IoT Impact Management

Sarah is a research fellow in social care at the LSE Care Policy and Evaluation Centre (CPEC) and a Policy Fellow embedded in the Strategy Team at the City Intelligence Unit at the Greater London Authority. She is part of CPEC’s   partnership   in the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration North Thames, as a member of the ARC-NT’s Research Partnership Team. She is a mixed-methods researcher with experience in complex evaluations in mental health, social care and health services. Sarah holds a BSc (Joint Honours) in Biology and Management as well as an MPH and a PhD from Imperial College London. She has previously worked in research roles as a mixed-methods research fellow for the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration North Thames within the Department of Applied Health Research at UCL, evaluating the national "Getting It Right First Time" (GIRFT) programme, and at the Royal College of Psychiatrists on the randomised controlled evaluation of Low Secure Services (eLSU) study within the College Centre for Quality Improvement.

Dr Will Venters is an Associate Professor in Information Systems and Digital Innovation within the Department of Management at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He speaks regularly at practitioner conferences on various digital business issues, particularly around Digital Ecosystems, Digital Innovation and Cloud Computing; has briefed  European government policy makers and various company executives; and  undertakes wide ranging consultancy in IT strategy and Digital transformation . His research interests include Digital Transformation, Digital Platforms and Ecosystems ,AI, and Agile innovation approaches. He has a first-class degree in computer science and a PhD in information systems. His research work has been published in major refereed journals including MIS Quarterly, Journal of Information Technology, the Journal of Management Studies, and the Information Systems Journal. He co-authored the  Palgrave book   “Moving to the Cloud Corporation” and is the author of a blog on digital technology   www.binaryblurring.com  and is an associate editor of the Journal Information Technology and People.

I have several academic qualifications in the field of the international political economy of trade and development, namely, a PhD from the London School of Economics (LSE) with a dissertation in international political trade, and two Masters in Development Management (LSE), and International Affairs (Washington University in St. Louis) with concentrations in the political economy of development and development policy and international affairs. I have worked for international organizations (United Nations, World Bank) and think tanks on social and economic policy issues. In addition, I have a medical doctor (MD) degree and a second PhD in biomedical sciences. I have researched, produced, and delivered consulting reports on socio-economic policy issues for international organizations . As part of my work for the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia Pacific (UN-ESCAP), the largest policy think tank in the region, and the World BankI wrote status evaluations, good practices, and policy reports for developing governments in the region on the liberalization of trade of goods and services and other macroeconomic and development issues. I consulted and wrote reports for both international organizations on trade and industrial policy and the impact of investment liberalization in Southeast Asia. I led and collaborate on UN-ESCAP projects that analyzed policy options to strengthen and finance development projects. I have consulted for United Nations and the World Health Organization on domestic policies and recommendations for regional cooperation on R&D, manufacturing, and trade for vaccines in Asia Pacific. I also consulted for the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), on Public Expenditure Management in developing countries. I have designed, managed, and evaluated development policy projects in very different contexts and for diverse types of clients. As part of my work for international organizations, I provided policy advisory services and/or capacity building to policy makers and government officials in developing countries.  During my tenure at the UN, I participated in the organization of high-level inter-governmental and government-business conferences . I have also conducted academic research to identify the political and economic variables that drive trade liberalization and the integration of countries into the international economy, as well as to investigate how this integration (or lack thereof) affects economic policy, the operations of firms in regional production networks, as well as the relations between and among states and firms. My analyses use both qualitative and quantitative methodologies and my industry focus on the automotive, biotechnology and pharmaceutical, and processed food industries. My research has been published in World Economy (37:1612-1633), Review of International Political Economy (RIPE) (23:379-417), and RIPE (doi: 10.1080/09692290.2021.1892796). My earlier academic articles analyzed the political dynamics in participatory governance initiatives in Latin America (Urban Studies, 48:1945-67), policy options for financing infrastructure in China and India (Journal of Asian Public Policy 1:71-89). I also researched and started expert-level discussions on how the impacts of climate change on human health can contribute to international collective action (Development, 53:403-8; Bulletin WHO, 85:825-7).  My verbal communication skills are proven by the numerous presentations and invited lectures I delivered for different types of audiences: academics, government policymakers, and development practitioners. I possess more than 15 years of teaching experience in universities in the US, Europe, and Asia. In the areas of public policy and political economy, I have lectured on trade and development as part of visiting scholar posts in Europe and East Asia, and I have taught. I staffed, trained, and supervised my own research group (7-10 people) while networking with other teams. I have a highly successful record of securing research funding from government agencies and private foundations across Europe and the US.

Mimosa Distefano is a Research Economist at the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics (LSE). She is also affiliated with the Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM) at University College London (UCL). Current areas of research include: Labour Economics: Determinants of workers' career profiles; Gender Inequality in the labor market; Spatial trends in wage inequality Public Economics: Profit taxation; Capital taxation; Payroll Taxation

Current role: postdoctoral fellow at the London School of Economics. Expertise: migration and refugee policies, EU policies and politics, home affairs. Methods:  policy analysis, policy evaluation (Better Regulation guideline), interviews, surveys, descriptive statistics. Geographical focus: Europe and the EU; Italy, France, and the UK. Other relevant experience: worked for the European Commission (DG Home), collaborated with policymakers (Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs). Languages: English, Italian, French, Chinese.

Dr Michael Lerner is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and Public Policy in the LSE Department of Government. Dr Lerner studies comparative environmental politics with a broad interest in the challenges and strategies related to adopting timely policy responses to environmental change. His research focuses primarily on policy advocacy, including corporate lobbying on climate change, transnational advocacy networks, and the innovation and diffusion of environmental policy. Dr Lerner has published his work in the American Journal of Political Science , the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , and other peer-reviewed journals.