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Beth is a Professorial Fellow at the Urban Institute at the University of Sheffield. Her research focusses on processes and practices of urban transformation, co-productive urban governance, citizen participation and the just city. She is the UK Director of Realising Just Cities, a 4-year international programme of research and action in the Mistra Urban Futures centre, with partners in the Global North and South. Currently, she also leads two nationally funded ESRC projects Jam and Justice: Coproducing Urban Governance for Social Innovation and Whose Knowledge Matters.
Beth oversees a collaborative programme of work between academics, individuals and organisations supporting progressive social, spatial and environmental change in the North of England. Across Greater Manchester and Sheffield there are over 20 action research projects on topics from spatial planning, environmental justice and food to cultural heritage and community empowerment. Beth has lived or worked in Greater Manchester for over 20 years. She is committed to critical but hopeful social science that seeks to contribute to progressive urban transformation. She has also just published two co-authored books - Cities and the Knowledge Economy: Promise, Politics and Possibilities and Reflexivity: the Essential Guide.
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Social innovation foundation Nesta.
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Mutsuhisa is working in both practice and the philosophy of public policy and governance. He is conducting a series of research on "social software" ―computational/mathematical/behavioural studies of institutions for the design, as well as the installation, maintenance, and update―particularly in the areas of public, social and humanitarian affairs.
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Head of the Oxford Department of International Development and Professor of the Political Economy of Development at the University of Oxford. Together with Juliana Martínez Franzoni he has worked extensively on universal social policies in the South, with particular attention to Latin America. He is currently working on the determinants and consequences of inequality through the study of the Latin American experience.
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Aleks Deejay is the research coordinator for The Policy Lab. Aleks's research explores the governance of emerging technologies, attitudes towards automation and AI, and critical discourses of technology and technological futures, and use and impact of emerging technologies in public policy and services. He has researched and taught at The University of Melbourne and Monash University.
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I am an experienced Technology Trainer and have been involved in delivering trainings on and teaching students on some of the latest and cutting-edge technologies like: Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning/Deep Learning, Cloud Computing, Internet of Things at various national and international forums.
I am also an Intel Software Innovator - a developer advocacy and speakership program supporting innovative, independent developers who display an ability to create and demonstrate forward-looking projects by providing them with speaking and demonstration opportunities at industry events and developer gatherings. I am also a Google Machine Learning Crash Course Facilitator and an organizer for the Google Cloud Developer Community in New Delhi. I have also involved in executing Google Design Sprints – a Design Thinking and Agile Development Methodology focused training series to improve the user experience of applications.
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Programme Manager at Y Lab, the public service laboratory for Wales. I manage Innovate to Save, a programme that supports public services in Wales to improve public service delivery at the same time as generating cashable savings.
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I am research fellow at the Social Policy Research Centre at UNSW Sydney (University of New South Wales). My research interests lie in the social study of health and illness, with a particular focus on the connections between well-being, poverty and employment transitions, and how social and policy factors affect people’s intra-personal and inter-personal experiences of well-being and their resilience. I have extensive experience of undertaking research using a variety of research methods, specialising in mixed methods and qualitative research. My work has explored the quality of life, needs, service acceptability and service accessibility of socially disadvantaged groups, including people with disabilities, older people, unemployed people, migrants, and people living with HIV/AIDS. Work that I conducted in the field of mental health and wellbeing in England as part of an ESRC Lifelong Health and Wellbeing Collaborative Development Network Award was published in the series of expert papers by The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). I am the first author of the qualitative report published as part of the outcome evaluation of the NSW Keep Them Safe Program; this evaluation (led by Professor Ilan Katz at SPRC) won the Australasian Evaluation Society’s 2015 Award for Excellence in Evaluation.
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Working as a Research Assistant at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Singapore.
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Civil Servant