22 profiles found

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and my academic expertise (I am midway through my PhD, have published one academic piece and received a prize for an unpublished conference paper), I am well placed to offer research assistance on projects involving international development, regional politics in the Middle East and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.

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. 

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.

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.

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.

  Research and Analysis  ◼ 6 Years’ Experience in qualitative research in both academic and research settings  ◼ Experience of working with migrants, citizens and civic actors in European urban contexts  ◼ Substantial data collection through digital ethnography, interviews, focus-groups, participatory methods (knowledge exchange workshops, urban storytelling walks and expert interviews)  ◼ Data analysis using content analysis, visual analysis, discourse analysis and thematic analysis using NVivo 11 software  ◼ Proficient computer skills in SPSS, Excel, PowerPoint, NVivo, WordPress, HTML    Communications and interpersonal skills  ◼ Experience in conference presentations/research dialogues for academic audiences, practitioners, policy-makers in the UK and the EU  ◼ Ability to liaise with and teach individuals from different backgrounds and cultures    Contributions and outreach  ◼ Experience of publishing in highly respected journals and academic books in the fields of media and communication, urban studies and education  ◼ Familiarity with the existing literature, methodologies and research in the field of migration and displacement  ◼ Experience in producing briefing guidelines for a British Government department and drafting media strategy report    Management and coordination  ◼ Proven experience in working collaboratively with research teams  ◼ Manage administrative tasks related to research projects, teaching and supervision  ◼ Organisation and coordination of workshops and seminars (online and in-person) 

Professor of Geography and Urban Studies in the Department of Geography and Environment, LSE Director of Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre

I am a highly motivated and passionate individual with a wide range of professional experience in research, advocacy and policy, working in academia, NGO’s and the United Nations. I have specialist knowledge in Women, Peace and Security, Youth, Peace and Security, peacebuilding, gender equality,  women and girls' rights, and women and girls’ leadership. I am passionate about intersectional feminism, sustainable development and inclusive peace.

I am a health economist with experience of both econometric and decision analytic modelling. My research focuses on health inequalities with a particular focus on the UK ad Indian health systems. 

I am researcher based in London, UK, currently undertaking an PhD at the London School of Economics and Political Science, with my current research focusing on the politics of agrarian change and conflict in Myanmar. I am Leverhulme Trust Scholar at the International Inequalities Institute at the LSE. My background is in qualitative research methods, and have worked in complex risk environments for extended periods of time.  I am also a photographer and film-maker, and have conducted ethnographic work and photographic projects in countries including Nepal, Myanmar, Bolivia, South Africa, Canada and the UK. Alongside this I have published in several news outlets including the Diplomat, LSE Review of Books and New Naratif. PhD Research Topic:  My research investigates the politics of agrarian change in Myanmar, in particular the role of state building aspirations among minority ethnic groups, legal land regimes, conservation & resource conflicts. My broader interests lie in environmental politics, animism, development and militarism, and how these intersect with processes of state formation and nationalism. I have worked primarily alongside Karen peoples in highland areas of Southeastern Myanmar which have been home to one of the worlds longest civil wars.

I am a third year PhD Student in Economics at the LSE, supervised by Professor Alan Manning. My interests lie within labour economics, focussing on technological change and the labour market with application towards inequality. https://tdmonk.com

Doctoral Researcher at the London School of Economics and Scholar in 'Analysing and Challenging Inequalities' at the International Inequalities Institute. Four years of work experience in international economic and social policymaking through policy analysis, design and implementation. Particular expertise in labour markets, social assistance, economic and social inequalities, income poverty as well as in quasi-experimental quantitative methods.

Expert in participatory and co-production research and knowledge production about gendered urban challenges. 

I'm a policy evaluation researcher based in London. I’m passionate about data analysis, technology, and understanding what makes different areas economically and politically converge (or not). I am confident using a vast range of quantitative and mixed methods techniques, yet I believe that economics and politics should be considered social sciences and not exact sciences. I previously worked on understanding the rise of populism in Europe with FATIGUE , and now I’m a researcher at NatCen .

Versatile freelance consultant, senior researcher and project lead.  Based on my experience across a range of fields I have set up Innovation Office to work on impactful projects serving private and public clients. Areas of expertise: • Education & Skills • Environment & Energy • Democracy & Governance • Public Policy/EU Policies • International Development • Urban & Regional Development • Trade & Investment • Psychological & Behavioural Science • Media, Communications and Culture • Organisations and management •  Entrepreneurship & Innovation Please get in touch with any collaboration opportunities, happy to provide further information on my experience related to the above areas.

Professor Joan Costa-Font works at LSE as a Professor of  Health Economics, and team leader of the ageing and health incentives unit (AHIL) in the Department of Health Policy where he is  Co-director of the MSc International Health Policy. Joan has been Harkness Fellow at Harvard University and currently, he is a CESifo and IZA network research fellow, and has been Harkness Fellow at Harvard University and visiting fellow at UCL, Boston College, Oxford University (IA) and the University of Munich (CES). Professor Costa-Font earned three undergraduate and research degrees, in economics, law and political science a master's degree in economic analysis from Universitat Pompeu Fabra, and an MSc (Econ) in international health policy (specialising in health economics and public economics). After completing a PhD in economics, in 2001 he earned a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship based at LSE and taught microeconomics and health economics as a tenured associate professor at the University of Barcelona before joining LSE in 2007, initially as a lecturer, and later as senior lecturer (2010) and then reader (2012). He has been a consultant to the WHO,  the World Bank, the Latin-American Development Bank, OECD, European Commission and private originations.  Expertise:  behavioural incentives; ageing, long-term care, health disadvantage; healthy lifestyles; preventative health care, health behaviours (smoking, obesity, sleep, food, exercise). LSE Consulting projects: Children's Wellbeing and Development Outcomes for Ages 5, 7 and 11, and their Predictors Public Health England, March 2016 - April 2018 Social Policy Reforms in the EU: A Cross-national Comparison BertelsmannStiftung, October 2015 A Common Disease with Uncommon Treatment: European Guideline Variations and access to innovative therapies for Rheumatoid Arthritis Policy Analysis Centre, July 2012 Measures to Promote the Situation of Roma EU Citizens in the European Union European Parliament - DG for Internal Policies, January 2011 Pharmaceutical Reimbursement Policy in Turkey New Hope in Health Foundation (SUVAK), September 2005 The Economic Impact of Pharmaceutical Parallel Trade in European Union Member States: A Stakeholder Analysis Johnson & Johnson, January 2004

Neil Lee is a Professor of Economic Geography in the Department of Geography and Environment (LSE). Before joining academia he held a senior management position in a think-tank. He has held visiting positions at Columbia University, the University of Oxford,  the University of St Andrews, Science Po Toulouse and the Inland University of Norway.  His research has included high-profile studies on the relationship between innovation and living standards, new frontiers of innovation policy, and on the characteristics of high-growth firms. His work has been featured in the media, including the FT, the Economist, BBC News, and the Today Programme (Radio 4). He has successfully delivered research projects for several government departments in the UK and elsewhere, international organisations such as the OECD and World Bank, city and regional governments, and innovation agencies such as Innovate UK. Expertise:  economic geography; local and regional development; innovation; SME finance; technological change; future of work; inequality; labour markets; inclusive growth