43 profiles found

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Katy Footman is a mixed methods researcher with a technical focus on sexual and reproductive health. She has ten years of professional experience conducting research and translating evidence into programmes and policy.  Katy previously worked at MSI Reproductive Choices (formerly Marie Stopes International), the Public Health England Behavioural Science team, and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). She consults for clients including the World Health Organization and Itad. Katy is currently completing a PhD in Demography and Population Studies from the London School of Economics (LSE) and she has Masters degrees in Health Policy, Planning and Financing from the LSE and LSHTM, and in Social Research Methods from the LSE.

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

Expert in policymaking, public sector strategy, and digital innovation Passionate about improving governments through projects that are meaningful, realistic and forwardlooking for the client Eight years of experience in public sector research and consulting positions, working with highest level civil servants and politicians Current research focuses on digital innovation and data in public decision-making Country expertise on Finland and the UK Authored several policy reports for Finnish Government on how to improve Finnish policymaking practices

Dr Charles Ebikeme is a Policy Officer in the Department of Health Policy. Charles is currently part of the LSE team working on the  African Health Observatory Platform on Health Systems & Policies (AHOP) . Hosted by the WHO Regional Office for Africa (WHO AFRO), AHOP leverages existing national and regional collaborations to form a network of National Centres that currently include leading research institutions in Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda and Senegal. AHOP draws on support from a technical consortium including the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, LSE and national, regional and global partners. Charles received his PhD in Parasitology from the University of Glasgow. His PhD focused on understanding how drugs work against parasites and how parasites become resistant to drugs. In the case of African trypanosomiasis, transport related phenomena have been central and a major research area has been associated with understanding drug resistance. His research investigated the inner workings of the parasite that causes African sleeping sickness and the development of novel treatments for the disease. He holds an MSc in Infectious Diseases from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and a BSc in Biochemistry from University College London. Prior to joining LSE, Charles worked at the intersection of research and policy, focusing on mainstreaming health into sustainable development topics such as climate change and urbanisation. He has managed global research programmes and spearheaded policy and advocacy initiatives globally.

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.

Piotr works as a Professor of Statistics in the Department of Statistics at the London School of Economics (0.6 FTE) and a Quantitative Strategist at Nanook Advisors LLP (0.4 FTE). He is a Chartered Statistician and an experienced statistical and data science consultant with a track record of adding business value. Much of his academic consultancy work is done through L1L2 Ltd, a limited company set up for this purpose. His past clients include quantitative market research firms, a hedge fund, an energy trading firm, TV production companies and an IT provider for the global travel industry. Piotr is an experienced statistical programmer with particular expertise in R, but is also able to work in Python, C++ and Matlab. He has expertise in modern methods of machine learning such as deep learning and tree-based regression and classification. He was awarded the Guy Medal in Bronze by the Royal Statistical Society in 2013, and served as Editor of the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (2014-17). As an academic statistical consultant, Piotr offers competitive pricing and has access to professional indemnity insurance through LSE Enterprise. He has considerable experience in explaining statistical concepts to non-expert audiences. Services offered - Statistics and data science consulting services in: statistical modelling and simulation; time series analysis including time series forecasting; predictive analytics including predictive regression modelling; statistical computing in R; statistical learning and machine learning including deep learning; change-point detection; high-dimensional statistical inference and dimension reduction; quantitative finance. Statistics and data science training courses in: general statistics and machine learning, predictive regression modelling, deep learning with R and Keras, time series analysis including forecasting, basic and advanced R, statistics in finance. (Please contact me if you are interested in a course on a topic not listed here.)

Denise is a political strategist and researcher who is currently completing a PhD at the London School of Economics. She has over a decade of experience on political campaigns in the US, UK, and Europe. Denise's academic research and doctoral thesis focuses on the application of social psychological theories, specifically group orientations like group identification, authoritarianism, and egalitarianism, to investigate perceptions of candidates, vote choice, and election prediction. Denise also researches national nostalgia and its influence on political attitudes and vote choice.

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 .

Swati Dhingra is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science, researching globalisation and industrial policy. She is co-author of the recent “ Life after Brexit ” report published by LSE’s Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), which looked at the UK’s options outside of the EU. She is also associate editor of the  Journal of International Economics . Swati was awarded the FIW Young Economist Award and the Chair Jacquemin Award by the European Trade Study Group for her work on firms and globalisation. Swati's work has informed bodies such as the Parliamentary International Trade Committee, CBI, Treasury, Social Enterprise UK, Credit Suisse and Sunderland City Council, and has featured in the media, including outlets such as the BBC, Foreign Affairs, Financial Times, The Economist, The Times and Business Standard. Expertise:  industrial policy; globalisation; international economics; trade policy; industrial organisation

Steve Woolcock has taught international political economy, trade and economic diplomacy at the LSE since 1999. Before joining the LSE he worked on trade and EU policy at Chatham House and for the private sector. In 1999 he established the International Trade Policy Unit at the LSE to bridge the gap between academic and policy work. His ongoing research has been on the regulation of integrating markets, especially in the context of preferential and multilateral trade and investment agreements.  His previous posts included Senior Research Fellow at the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) (1988-94) and Deputy Director for international affairs and the Confederation of British Industry (1985-1988). He has worked as consultant and advisor to a number of international organisations including the EU and national governments. His research interests include: international trade and investment policy: the World Trade Organization; regulatory issues in international trade; European trade policy; regional integration/trade agreements; the coverage of international rules/regimes governing trade and investment. Expertise:  EU trade and investment policies; European trade; international investment policy; international trade; preferential trade and investment agreements; trade negotiations; trade policy; World Trade Organization LSE Consulting projects: Trade policy expertise to European Parliament European Parliament, Research Network to provide foreign policy expertise – Lot 7 Trade Trade Sustainability Impact Assessment of the Free Trade Agreement between the European Union and Japan European Commission – DG for Trade, April 2016

Dr Bert Provan is a Senior Policy Fellow and Knowledge Broker in the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE) at the London School of Economics. His research interests lie in housing, neighbourhood renewal and the social impact of regeneration, the impact of welfare reforms, social return on investment, and comparative French housing policies. Selected publications include   Extending the "move-on" period for newly granted refugees: Analysis of impacts and costs  (2020;) Never Just a Number: Evaluating the impact of a holistic approach to UK poverty  with Laura Lane, Ellie Benton and Anne Power (2018); The Impact  of Welfare Reforms on Social Housing Tenants  with Anne Power and Eileen Alexander (2015),  Moving on without moving out: the impacts of regeneration on the Rayners Lane Estate  with Anne Power and Alice Belotti (2016),  No place like an accessible home: Quality of life and opportunity for disabled people with accessible housing needs,  with Tania Burchardt and Ellie Suh (2016). Expertise:  French and European housing policies; housing and rough sleeping; neighbourhood renewal; social impact of regeneration; social return on investment LSE projects: City of Walbrzych: Technical Assistance for Mitigating the Social and Economic Challenges of The City   European Investment Bank, July 2020 Low Cost Home Ownership Schemes Social Mobility Commission, July 2017 No Place Like an Accessible Home Papworth Trust, July 2016 EuropaCity: Social Impact Assessment Study EuropaCity (Auchan), February 2014

Sarah Harrison is an Assistant Professorial Research Fellow in the Department of Government at LSE and Deputy Director of the Electoral Psychology Observatory. She is a leading scholar in the fields of political psychology, extreme right politics, and youth political behaviour. Harrison's recent publications include  Youth Participation in Democratic Life  (2016, with Cammaerts, Bruter, Banaji, and Anstead) and articles in  Comparative Political Studies, American Behavioural Scientist  and  Parliamentary Affairs . She is editor of a forthcoming special issue of  Societies  on “Electoral Psychology” and of a forthcoming book entitled ‘Inside the Mind of a Voter’ (Princeton University Press with  Michael Bruter ). Her research has been recognised by prestigious awards and honourable mentions from the Economic and Social Research Council, the Michael Young Award, and the political psychology section of the American Political Science Association. She has also advised multiple Electoral Commissions worldwide and worked as an expert or authored reports for multiple prestigious international organisations including the European Commission, Council of Europe, the Committee of the Regions, the European Youth Forum, and All Parties Parliamentary Group on the Vote at 16 in the British Parliament. Expertise:  electoral psychology, elections, electoral behaviour, electoral ergonomics, political participation, youth, democratic frustration, quantitative & qualitative methodologies LSE Consulting projects: The Conference on the Future of Europe: Putting Local and Regional Authorities at the Heart of European Democratic Renewal European Committee of the Regions, October 2021 The Big Conversation - Climate Change British Council, May 2021 The Big Conversation Research Pilot British Council, April 2021 Reflecting on the future of the European Union: The view from local and regional authorities European Committee of the Regions, January 2018 Youth Participation in Democratic Life Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency, February 2013