Senior Researcher in Development Economics, University of Cape Town I am a senior research officer at the Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit (SALDRU). My research focuses on land tenure systems and rural livelihoods, urbanization and development, social cohesion and inequality, and the analysis of poverty and inequality. I teach postgraduate-level courses on complex surveys and measuring poverty and inequality in the School of Economics at the University of Cape Town.
Research Fellow, Indonesian Institute of Advanced International Studies (INADIS) Lulus Ilmu Hubungan Internasional Universitas Indonesia 2022 Research Intern di CSIS Indonesia April 2022-Agustus 2022. INADIS Research Fellow September 2022
Professor of Development Politics and Economy & DPU Director, Faculty of the Built Environment, UCL Michael is Professor of Development Politics and Economy and Director of UCL's Development Planning Unit (DPU). He has twelve years' experience in senior management in the private sector and lectures in 'market-led approaches to development' (a module titled 'Society and Market: Private Agency for Development') and was responsible for teaching development management at DPU ('Development in Practice'). He is actively involved in a number of groups, including the Anglo-Somali Society, Somaliland Focus (UK) and Kayd Somali Arts and Culture Ltd. He has worked in New Zealand and the UK and has also been involved in development work in Somalia/Puntland/Somaliland, Ghana, Ethiopia, Uganda and Kenya. Research, consultancy and teaching interests lie in the related areas of development management and governance, including: state formation in developing countries; post-conflict reconstruction; state-led development and approaches to regulation of the market to promote equitable development; livelihoods in informal economies – especially African cities; frameworks for understanding and measuring development and wellbeing; and the ethical foundations for development intervention. Michael has established a particular focus on the Somali areas and Ethiopia within the Horn of Africa.
PhD Candidate & Teaching Fellow, McMaster University Marika Avenel Brown is currently an ABD PhD Candidate and Teaching Fellow in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University. She also has an undergraduate specialization in Interdisciplinary Studies in Sexuality and a graduate specialization in Digital Humanities. Her dissertation work looks to speculative fiction to trouble the division between natural and unnatural and to posit better future entanglements between human, nonhuman, and more-than-human life and she has written about critical veganism as a mode of speculative possibility.
PhD Candidate in English and Cultural Studies, McMaster University Melissa Montanari (she/her) is a writer and PhD candidate in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University. She is currently completing her dissertation, which is funded by SSHRC (Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada) and which aims to bring food and literary studies into critical discourse. In the Fall of 2021 Melissa taught a second year undergraduate course on Food in Media and Popular Culture. Inspired by students in her course she started a monthly newsletter called "foodstuff," which wades through the cultural, political, environmental and emotional entanglements that food elicits.
Professor of Finance, Dublin City University I specialise in financial technology research. My research tends to fuse technology advances with behavioural understanding applied to finance.
