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Lucy Bassett is a Professor of Practice at the University of Virginia鈥檚 Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy and co-Director of the Humanitarian Collaborative, an applied research initiative focused on improving humanitarian response. Bassett鈥檚 research focuses on understanding how to best support young children in humanitarian and low-income contexts. Her recent work has involved evaluating the impact of programs for refugee and migrant children, assessing training and professional development needs for preschool teachers and school leaders, identifying models for childcare in emergency contexts, and understanding conditions of families and young children on the US/Mexico border. As of Fall 2022, she is launching a new project funded by the Lego Foundation to elevate children鈥檚 voices in emergency contexts and share their stories and experiences.

Before joining the University of Virginia, Bassett spent ten years as an education and social protection specialist with the World Bank leading projects and research on education and social protection at the World Bank, in countries from Bangladesh to Haiti and Serbia and Cameroon. Her practitioners鈥� perspective is further grounded by previous work at UNICEF, the World Food Programme, Save the Children, the International Food Policy Research Institute, and Peace Corps.

Bassett holds many high-level, international advisory roles. For example, she is a member of the Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies Early Childhood Development Working Group, Early Childhood Development Action Network Knowledge Fellows Steering Committee, and Research Forum on Early Childhood in Emergencies Steering Committee. She is also expert reviewer for numerous initiatives, such as the Lego Foundation鈥檚 Build a World of Play and American Institute of Research鈥檚 Scholars and Leaders Awards. In addition to her expertise in global early childhood research and practice, Bassett brings real-world experience as a pre-K teacher.

In addition to her expertise in international early childhood development, education, and childcare, Bassett focuses on feminist approaches to public policy and programming, co-creation and community engagement, and contemplative pedagogy. She won a University of Virginia All-University Teaching Award in 2021.

Gavin Leighton holds a Ph.D. in biology from Miami University. Broadly trained as a biologist who works at the intersection of evolutionary biology and animal behavior, he held postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Arizona and Cornell University before joining the Buffalo State College faculty as an assistant professor in 2018. His current research includes examining the evolution of vocal complexity in birds and the evolution of social behavior in ants. His most recent paper, 鈥淢ultiple Factors Affect the Evolution of Repertoire Size across Birds,鈥� appears in Behavioral Ecology (March 2021).

James Sulikowski researches the migration and metabolism of aquatic animals, specializing in sharks. 

He has worked with fisheries to observe the impact of chronic stress variables on their biological functions. This has evolved to testing neurotransmitter efficiency and protein regulation among different species.

His work further extends to utilizing telemetry, ultrasound and other tracking methods to observe how fish have adapted their migration patterns around human impacts.

Sulikowski is an associate director and professor for the School of Mathematical and Natural Sciences as well as the School of Life Sciences Interdisciplinary Graduate Faculty.

His work has been featured on Discovery Channel鈥檚 鈥淪hark Week,鈥� NBC鈥檚 鈥淭oday Show,鈥� National Geographic 鈥淥cean Mysteries with Jeff Corwin,鈥� and the BBC series 鈥淩ise of Animals.鈥�

Dr Katie Bales is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Bristol. She specialises in forced migration, work and the welfare state. She has been exploring the issues that impact the lives of asylum-seekers and refugees in the UK 鈥� including their working rights, access to employment and how the law regards immigrants. Katie has also examined low wages paid to detainees in immigration centres and access to education for asylum-seekers. She is currently working on a new study of international perspectives on detention centres.

Katie has undertaken research for the Equality and Human Rights Commission and the Scottish Human Rights Commission, examining the State's compliance with human rights obligations (with a particular focus on welfare reform and the immigration detention of children). In addition to her research and teaching, Katie is co-editor for the Futures of Work blogsite with Bristol University Press. She is also a trustee for the Bristol City of Sanctuary Charity and a founding member of the Sanctuary Scholarships working group which helped to establish a scholarship scheme for asylum-seekers and refugees seeking access to Higher Education.

Katie holds a PhD in Law from Northumbria University.

Accomplishments:

2017 - Excellence Award for Sanctuary Scholarship Scheme
2019 - University of Sanctuary Award and Social Mobility Award

Publications:

15/03/2018 - 鈥榁oice鈥� and 鈥楥hoice鈥� in Modern Working Practices: Problems with the Taylor Review, Industrial Law Journal
04/07/2018 - Unfree labour in immigration detention: exploitation and coercion of a captive immigrant workforce, Economy and Society
27/11/2018 - The 'future' of work? A call for the recognition of continuities in challenges for conceptualising work and its regulation, University of Bristol Law School
18/08/2019 - Michael Adler: Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment? Benefit Sanctions in the UK, Journal of Law and Society
30/09/2019 - The Immigration Industrial Complex: A Global Perspective on 'Unfree Labour' in immigration detention, Futures of Work
01/04/2020 - COVID-19 and the Futures of Work, Futures of Work

You can find out more about Katie on her University of Bristol staff profile at: https://www.bristol.ac.uk/people/person/Katie-Bales-a577005b-dfe6-4f5b-ae38-3f70573c6e2b/

Katie can be found on Twitter at KatieBales2.

Ann Singleton is based in the School for Policy Studies. An expert on migration statistics and their use in policy, she explores various aspects of migration including missing data or under-reported statistics relating to, for instance, people with disabilities, the undocumented, and people in detention centers. She has also examined the deaths of migrants during their journey and she has looked at the establishment of formally-recognized and accredited sites of deaths of migrants. Ann is a Senior Adviser to the International Organisation for Migration鈥檚 Global Migration Data Analysis Centre (GMDAC), and a member of the UN Statistical Division鈥檚 Expert Group on Migration Statistics, which is currently revising the UN鈥檚 international recommendations on migration statistics. She has advised the European Commission, the European Parliament, the Council of Ministers and EU Presidencies, the Global Migration Group, national governments, NGOs, and international organizations.

Education
1984 - BA Urban Policy and Race Relations, University of Lancaster, 
1988 - MA Government and Politics, London Guildhall University

Affiliations
Member of UNDESA鈥檚 Expert Advisory Group on Migration Statistics, Member of the Scientific Advisory (Programme) Committee of the International Forum on Migration Statistics, Member of the Commissioning Panel for the ESRC鈥檚 call for Brexit Priority Grants

Prof. Huang鈥檚 research is devoted to understanding the impact of sociodemographic and economic transformations and government policies.  Her research focuses on three different but related areas: 1) housing, 2) migration and urbanization, and 3) health and wellbeing.   Her research has a regional focus on China, and recently the U.S.  She is the (co-)author/(co-)editor of ten books, including Chinese Cities in the 21st Century (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), Housing Inequality in Chinese Cities (Routledge 2014), China鈥檚 Geography: Globalization and the Dynamics of Political, Economic and Social Change (Roman & Littlefield Publishers, 2021).  She has also published many articles in some of the best journals in several fields, including Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), Annals of the Association of American Geographers, The China Quarterly, Urban Studies, Cities, Housing Studies, Housing Policy Debate, and Environmental and Planning A.  She has served both the profession and the community in many leadership positions, and she is the recipient of the Outstanding Service Award by the American Association of Geographers (AAG) China Geography Specialty Group (CGSG) in 2019, and 鈥淧resident鈥檚 Award for Exemplary Public Engagement鈥� by University at Albany in 2020.  

Dr Dasgupta's main research areas are queer politics, activism and digital media cultures in South Asia and the diasporas.

He provides insight on diverse issues from homophobia, social justice movements, media and social change, cultural activism, inequality and politics.

He has appeared on BBC and BBC Radio 3 and has written for popular outlets such as The Independent, Tribune and The Conversation.

Dr Ronan Lee is a Doctoral Prize Fellow at Loughborough University London鈥檚 Institute for Media and Creative Industries where his research focuses on the Rohingya, genocide, hate speech, migration, and Asian politics.

Ronan鈥檚 book 鈥淢yanmar鈥檚 Rohingya Genocide: Identity, History and Hate Speech鈥� was published by Bloomsbury in 2021, and he was awarded the 2021 Early Career Emerging Scholar Prize by the International Association of Genocide Scholars.

Ronan has a professional background in politics, media, and public policy. He was formerly a Queensland State Member of Parliament (2001-2009) and served on the frontbench as a Parliamentary Secretary (2006-2008) in portfolios including Justice, Main Roads, and Local Government. He has also worked as a senior government advisor, and as an election strategist and campaign manager.