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Aase Villadsen

Aase Villadsen

Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Education, UCL

Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Education, UCL I am a Senior Research Associate at the UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies. My educational background is in Sociology with an undergraduate degree from York and a master’s degree from Oxford, and a doctorate degree in Social Intervention also from Oxford. My work is focused on cohort studies that follow large group of individuals through life. I have worked extensively with the Millennium Cohort Study, which involves around 19,000 participants born in the UK around the millennium. I am particularly interested in children’s and adolescent’s social, behavioural and health outcomes and the underlying factors causing these, with the aim of informing policy.

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Amy Thomasson

Amy Thomasson

Associate Lecturer of Law, The University of Western Australia

Associate Lecturer of Law, The University of Western Australia Amy is an Associate Lecturer at the UWA Law School, teaching Law for Everyday Lives and Family Law. She was previously an Associate at the Supreme Court of Western Australia - Court of Appeal and practised as a family lawyer. Amy has extensive research experience in health law & policy (including public health and reproductive technology). As well as teaching at UWA, Amy is involved in the legal stream of the Mandate Evaluation (MandEval) project, funded by the Medical Research Future Fund. MandEval is an interdisciplinary research project which aims to guide policy for future pandemic preparedness and routine adult and childhood immunisation programs.

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Alex Yates

Alex Yates

Postgraduate Researcher in Politics, Languages & International Studies, University of Bath

Postgraduate Researcher in Politics, Languages & International Studies, University of Bath I am a postgraduate researcher in the Department of Politics, Languages & International Studies at the University of Bath. My research focuses on the adversarial responses of mainstream political parties, in Europe and The USA, to populism. Specifically, I am concerned with how these responses have had the double effect of both marginalising dissent from neoliberal governance, and mainstreaming far-right ideas through euphemising racism as 'populist'.

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Augustine Aboh

Augustine Aboh

Ph.D. candidate in Global Governance and Human Security, University of Massachusetts

Ph.D. candidate in Global Governance and Human Security, University of Massachusetts Augustine Aboh is a Global Governance and Human Security doctoral student at the University of Massachusetts Boston, U.S.A. He works as a Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding Researcher for the Office of Strategic Preparedness and Resilience (National Early Warning Centre of Nigeria) and a Lecturer in the Department of Political Science, University of Calabar, Nigeria. His research interests include the intersection of democracy and technology, defense and security governance, strategic studies, conflict prevention and peacebuilding, human security, global governance, radicalization, extremism, terrorism, and organized crime.

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Alice Lux Fawzi

Alice Lux Fawzi

PANTHER Engineering Project Manager and Associate Director of the Center for Traumatic Brain Injury, University of Wisconsin-Madison

PANTHER Engineering Project Manager and Associate Director of the Center for Traumatic Brain Injury, University of Wisconsin-Madison I am the Project Manager for a large interdisciplinary DoD-funded TBI research program (PANTHER) and the Associate Director of the Center for Traumatic Brain Injury at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I have been researching the physics-based causes of mild traumatic brain injury since 2016 with the goal of predicting and preventing injury.

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