Chair of Molecular Biogerontology, University of Birmingham Ageing has a profound impact on human society and modern medicine, yet it remains a major puzzle of biology. The goal of my work is to help understand the genetic, cellular, and molecular mechanisms of ageing. In the long term, I would like my work to help ameliorate age-related diseases and preserve health. No other biomedical field has so much potential to improve human health as research on the basic mechanisms of ageing. Please see our lab website for further details about our work and publications (https://rejuvenomicslab.com). My TEDx talk is also a nice summary of the field of ageing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrLgYhtoBXA
Professor of Law and Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles Jill Horwitz is the David Sanders Professor in Law and Medicine at UCLA School of Law and Professor of Public Affairs (by courtesy) at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. She was the Vice Dean for Faculty and Intellectual Life at the School of Law for the academic years 19-20 and 20-21. She is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and Adjunct Professor of Economics at the University of Victoria Department of Economics in British Columbia, Canada. Prior to joining UCLA in 2012, she was on the faculty at the University of Michigan, where she was the Louis and Myrtle Moskowitz Research Professor of Business and Law and Co-Director of Law and Economics. She also held joint appointments at Michigan with the School of Public Health and the Ford School of Public Policy. As the Reporter for the American Law Institute Restatement of the Law, Charitable Nonprofit Organizations, Professor Horwitz has led the ALI’s first Restatement on the subject. At UCLA, Professor Horwitz teaches Torts, Health Law, Nonprofit Law, as well as seminars in law and economics, governance, and health care reform. Both a legal scholar and policy expert, Professor Horwitz is addressing some of the most pressing law and policy issues of our day, including the opioid crisis, health insurance, and health care markets. A highly productive scholar, she has published widely in top law reviews, health policy journals, and economics journals. Her empirical research on hospital ownership and medical service provision has won several awards. Professor Horwitz received her B.A. with honors from Northwestern University. She holds a Master’s Degree in Public Policy, a J.D. magna cum laude, and a Ph.D. in health policy, all from Harvard University. Following law school, she served as a law clerk for Judge Norman Stahl of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. Horwitz is a fellow at the National Academy of Social Insurance and a member of the Bar of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and has been a member of the Board of Advisors at the New York University National Center on Philanthropy and the Law.
Investigador en Estudios Migratorios y Sociología, Universidad Pontificia Comillas Juan Castillo Rojas-Marcos cursó el Doble Grado en Sociología y Ciencias Políticas y de la Administración (UPO) y el Máster en Antropología: Gestión de la Diversidad Cultural, el Patrimonio y el Desarrollo (US). Actualmente es investigador pre-doctoral en Estudios Migratorios, contratado en el marco del proyecto europeo SafeHabitus (Horizon Europe), en el Instituto Universitario de Estudios sobre Migraciones (IUEM) de la Universidad Pontificia Comillas. La tesis doctoral en la que trabaja versa sobre las condiciones de vida y trabajo y mecanismos de dominación de los trabajadores y trabajadoras migrantes en la agroindustria de Huelva. Tiene publicaciones académicas previas en sociología de la educación. Otras líneas de trabajo recientes tienen que ver con el análisis de procesos y conflictos urbanos. Además del proyecto europeo ya citado, participa y ha participado en otros proyectos nacionales. Ha hecho dos estancias de investigación en Ecuador.
Assistant Professor of Sociology and Criminology, University of Alberta My interests concern a range of topics, especially political movements, decolonization, and prisons. I currently have two research projects. The first is my work on the University of Alberta Prison Project. Our research team interviews incarcerated people and staff about their experiences living and working inside prisons. I am currently writing about Indigenous peoples’ experiences with cultural prison programming. The second project is about Canada’s right-wing nationalist movement. My study shows how right-wing ideology and prejudice are intimately connected to mainstream Canadian culture, challenging pop media narratives that present right-wing groups as “un-Canadian”. I am also Red River Métis and working with the Indigenous Engagement Advisory Committee (IEAC) to further develop Augustana’s Indigenous studies program.
Professor of Sociology and Public Health, Lancaster University I am a sociologist whose primary interest is in research illuminating social, economic and environmental causes of socio-economic inequalities in health. I have a particular interest in how 'lay experiential knowledge' (what Aristotle labelled practical wisdom) can illuminate these pathways and whether initiatives aimed at enhancing the collective control disadvantaged people have over decisions that impact on their lives can promote health
Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Utah Josh McCrain studies American political institutions, Congress, lobbying, money in politics, media and politics, public policy, and political economy generally. He is also working on manuscripts on computational social science and applied data science using R. His research combines computational social science, causal inference approaches for observational data, and field experiments. He has also published a guide to working with congressional data in R: https://congressdata.joshuamccrain.com/
