Peneliti Bidang Kependudukan, Badan Riset dan Inovasi Nasional (BRIN) Gutomo Bayu Aji is a senior researcher at the Population Research Center, BRIN. His academic background is in Anthropology and has more than twenty years of research experience. His field of research is youth studies and agrarian issues.
Senior Statistician, Oregon Health & Science University Gulcan Cil is a senior statistician and health policy researcher at the Center for Evidence-based Policy at Oregon Health & Science University and an Associate Scientist at Oregon Research Institute. She has a PhD in economics with a focus on advanced data analytic methods and health economics. Her expertise is in using data from administrative records for research and advanced statistical methods for improved causal inference. She is particularly interested in policy evaluation in terms of their impacts on individual behaviors and outcomes, and assessment of the effects of different environmental and behavioral factors on health. She also has expertise in performing cost effectiveness analyses for school- and community-based interventions targeting health and educational outcomes.
Associate Professor, Psychology & Family Medicine, Western University Dr. Graham Reid is a clinical psychologist and Associate Professor in Psychology, Family Medicine, and Paediatrics at The University of Western Ontario. He holds Scientist appointments with the Children’s Health and Lawson Health Research Institutes. In his private practice Dr. Reid provides clinical services for children, youth, and adults, with a specific interest in helping individuals struggling with sleep issues such as insomnia. Dr. Reid has two programs of research: (1) issues related to sleep among young children and (2) access and use of health and mental-health services for children and youth. Within these two research areas there are two cross-cutting themes: primary health care and measure development. Recently his lab has focused on understanding napping among children age 1 to 6 years old. Their work has examined child, family and environmental influences on the age when children stop napping, as well as outcomes of nap cessation. The Reid Child Health Lab is currently embarking on a number of studies that aim to understanding how naps are being managed by early childhood educators.
Department of Economics, Engineering, Society and Business Organization, University of Tuscia Giulio Guarini is Full Professor of Political Economy at University of Tuscia (Viterbo, Italy), where he coordinates the PHD course in Economics, Management and Quantitative Method. He holds a PHD in Economics and a degree in Economics from Sapienza University of Rome. He worked as economist-public servant at the Italian Agency of Territorial Cohesion and at the Italian Ministry of Economic Development and at the Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance. He is member of MinervaLab-Sapienza University and of the association Economia Civile and of Structuralist Development Macroeconomics Research Group. He is on the editorial board of PSL Quarterly review, Moneta e Credito and Structuralist Development Macroeconomics Bulletin. He is Fellow of the National University Center for Applied Economics (CiMET). Based on the Classical-postKeynesian approach, his main research interests are economic development, ecological transition, human development, innovation, ecological macroeconomics, inequalities.
Associate Professor Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University Research interests range from urban studies to Aboriginality and post-colonialism, to youth and precarious labour, to the politics of moral panics. Books include (as sole author) Unsettled places: Aboriginal people and urbanisation in New South Wales (Wakefield Press, 2006); (with Pariece Nelligan) The creativity hoax (Anthem Press, forthcoming 2018); (as editor, both with Scott Poynting) Outrageous: moral panics in Australia (ACYS Press, 2007) and Global Islamophobia (Ashgate, 2012).
Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Georgia Dr. Geoffrey Sheagley is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science in the School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Georgia. He received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, in 2013 in the fields of American politics and political methodology. He is an expert in the areas of public opinion, political parties, and survey and experimental methods. His research focuses on topics such as how members of the public form beliefs and evaluations of elected officials, the criteria voters use when picking between candidates running for office, and how the partisanship of individuals shapes their views of elections. He has published peer-reviewed articles in a variety of journals, including the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, and Journal of Politics. He is also an editorial board member at Legislative Studies Quarterly. Dr. Sheagley teaches courses on public opinion, survey research methods, and political psychology.