Dr Esat Alpay Senior Lecturer in Chemical and Process Engineering, University of Surrey Esat Alpay is a Senior Lecturer in Chemical and Process Engineering. He received his BSc (Hons) degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Surrey, and his PhD from the University of Cambridge. He also holds an MA degree in the Psychology of Education (with distinction) from the Institute of Education, University of London. He has wide interests in the educational support and skills [...]

Dr Zerrin Ozlem Biner Anthropology, University of Cambridge Dr Biner studied Sociology and Social Anthropology at Koc University in Istanbul and at the Universities of London and Cambridge before obtaining her Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge. Dr. Biner's current research project is entitled "Imagined Cosmopolites of Mardin: An Ethnographic Study of Cosmopolitanism from the Margins of Contemporary Turkey." Dr  Biner has done extensive research on the experience of the state, memory of violence, cosmopolitanism, property [...]

Prof Ali Murat Yel School of Communications, Marmara University Professor Ali Murat Yel is an anthropologist and teaches in the school of communication at Marmara University in Istanbul. He completed his MA degree at the School of Oriental &African Studies (SOAS) in Sociology & Anthropology. Following his Mater's Degree, Murat Yel received his PhD in Political Science from London School of Economics and Political Science.

Prof Juliet Mitchell Professor of Psychoanalysis and Gender Studies, University of Cambridge Juliet Mitchell is Professor of Psychoanalysis and Gender Studies at the University Cambridge, Convenor of Gender Studies in Cambridge and a Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge. She is a Full Member of the British and the International Psychoanalytical Societies. Her most recent books are Siblings: Sex and Violence, Polity Press (2003) and Mad Men and Medusas: Reclaiming Hysteria and the Sibling Relationship for the Human [...]

Prof Bill Bowring School of Law, Birkbeck College Specializes in international law, human rights, minority rights and Russian and Post-Soviet law.  He was appointed Professor of Law at Birkbeck College, University of London in September 2006 and is a practising barrister. In 2002 Bill founded and is now Chair of the European Human Rights Advocacy Centre (EHRAC) in partnership with the Russian NGO Memorial. He has taken more than 50 cases against Azerbaijan, Estonia, Georgia, Latvia, Russia and [...]

Prof Lucinda Platt Professor of Sociology, Institute of Education (IOE) University of London Lucinda Platt is y Professor of Sociology the Institute of Education and Director of the Millennium Cohort Study, a study of over 19,000 children born in 2000/2001 who are followed over time. Her research focuses on questions of ethnic minority social mobility, pay, poverty and disadvantage, and ethnic identity, as well as on child poverty and disability.  She has published widely in these areas [...]

Prof Christoph Meyer Head of the Department of European & International Studies, King's College London Professor Christoph Meyer (MPhil, PhD, Cambridge) is the Head of the Department of European & International Studies at King's College London. Prof Meyer is a specialist in studying political communication and culture in Europe. He has written about the prospects for a European public sphere as a communicative space for European citizens to discuss issues of common concern and hold European institutions [...]

Prof Richard G Whitman School of Politics and International Relations, University of Kent Professor Richard G. Whitman is Professor of Politics and International Relations in the School of Politics and International Relations. He joined the University of Kent in September 2011. He is also an Associate Fellow at Chatham House (formerly known as the Royal Institute of International Affairs) and an Academic Fellow at the European Policy Centre. He regularly writes and researches for think tanks and his most [...]

Prof Peter Taylor-Gooby OBE Professor of Social Policy, University of Kent Peter Taylor-Gooby, FBA, AcSS, FRSA, OBE is Professor of Social Policy at the University of Kent. He chairs the British Academy New Paradigms in Public Policy programme and the HEFCE REF2014 Social Work and Social Policy Panel. Recent books include: New Paradigms in Public Policy, Reframing Social Citizenship, Risk in Social Science (with Jens Zinn), Ideas and the Welfare State and New Risks, New Welfare. Current [...]

Prof Bernard Harris Professor of Social Policy, University of Strathclyde Bernard Harris is Professor of Social Policy in the School of Social Work and Social Policy at the University of Strathclyde.  He was previously Professor of the History of Social Policy at the University of Southampton.  He has edited or coedited books on Race, science and medicine (Routledge, 1999); Charity and mutual aid in Europe and North America since 1800 (Routledge, 2007); Gender and wellbeing in Europe: historical and contemporary perspectives (Ashgate, 2009); and Welfare [...]

Prof John Macnicol Visiting Professor, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) John Macnicol is Visiting Professor of Social Policy at the London School of Economics and Adjunct Professor of the Boston University London Programme. He has written extensively on current social policy and the history of social policy. His current research interests are ageing and social policy, age discrimination and the history of retirement.

Prof Madeleine Arnot Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge Madeleine Arnot is Professor of Sociology of Education in the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Jesus College and of the Academy of Social Sciences. She holds an Honorary Doctorate from Uppsala University, Sweden. She directed EU projects on gender and citizenship, and on adolescent masculinity and education. She recently completed a five-year project as international leader on Youth, Gender and Citizenship [...]

Prof Linda Mulcahy Department of Law, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) Professor Linda Mulcahy joined the Law Department in 2010. Having gained qualifications in law, sociology and the history of art and architecture, Linda’s work has a strong interdisciplinary flavour. Her research focuses on disputes and their resolution and she has studied the socio-legal dynamics of disputes in a number of contexts including the car distribution industry, NHS, divorce, public sector complaints systems and [...]

Armando Alemdar Artist I have been an artist since the age of three and since then I have developed my work towards the theory and philosophy of art. For the past five years I have been a teacher at Alperton Secondary School, this role also helps me practice as an artist.

Prof Suleyman BasakFinancial Economist, London Business School (LBS) Dr. Basak is Professor of Finance at London Business School.  He teaches courses in Fixed Income Securities and Financial Engineering & Risk Management.  He was an Assistant Professor of Finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, was a visitor at the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago and acted as a consultant to Goldman, Sachs & Co.  He received his Ph.D. in Financial Economics from Carnegie Mellon [...]

Prof Heaven CrawleyProfessor of International Migration and Director of the Centre for Migration Policy Research (CMPR), Swansea University Heaven Crawley is Professor of International Migration and Director of the Centre for Migration Policy Research (CMPR) at Swansea University. Heaven has undertaken research on asylum policy and practice in the UK and Europe since 1994, initially as part of a PhD at the University of Oxford and subsequently as head of asylum and immigration research at the UK Home Office [...]

Prof Robert Wintemute Professor of Human Rights Law, King's College London Robert Wintemute is a Professor of Human Rights Law. He joined the Dickson Poon School of Law in 1991 after practising as an Associate in the Bankruptcy Department at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP in New York, 1982-87. Professor Wintemute was educated at The University of Alberta. In 1982 he gained his LL.B and BCL from McGill University where he was awarded the Aime Geoffrion Gold Medal [...]

Prof Penny Green The Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London Professor Green joined King's College London in September 2007 following eight years as Professor of Law and Criminology at the University of Westminster. Prior to that she held posts at the University of Southampton and the LSE. Professor Green graduated from the Australian National University in 1979 with a BA (Hons), and with an MPhil and PhD in Criminology from the University of Cambridge. Professor Green is Head of [...]

Prof Kenneth BenoitHead of the Department of Methodology, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) Kenneth Benoit received his PhD in 1998 from Harvard University, Department of Government. He has previously held positions at Trinity College Dublin, where he held a chair in Quantitative Social Sciences, and at the Central European University (Budapest). He regularly teaches social science methodology at summer schools, including the ECPR Summer School in Methods and Techniques (Ljubljana) and in 2011, the Essex Summer [...]

Prof Benjamin BowlingThe Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London Professor Ben Bowling has taught at the Dickson Poon School of Law since 1999. He was previously Assistant Professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (City University of New York), Senior Research Officer in the Home Office and lecturer at the University of Cambridge Institute of Criminology. He has been a visiting professor at the University of the West Indies and at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.Ben’s research [...]

Mehmet Simsek Minister of Finance in Turkey Mehmet Simsek is the Head of Fixed Income Strategy & Economics Research for emerging EMEA region at Merrill Lynch. Before joining Merrill Lynch, he was a senior economist at Bender Securities (a Deutsche Bank subsidiary). Prior to that, he worked as a senior economist for the US Embassy in Ankara for about four years. Mr. Simsek received his BSc in Economics with honours from Ankara University in 1988 and holds [...]

Dr Evelyn Ersanilli Departmental Lecturer in Migration Studies, University of Oxford Evelyn Ersanilli is Departmental Lecturer in Migration Studies at the Oxford Department of International Development, based at the International Migration Institute (IMI). She teaches quantitative and qualitative research methods and convenes an option course on citizenship and migration Evelyn has a PhD in Sociology (VU University Amsterdam, 2010) and an MSc in Interdisciplinary Social Science (Utrecht University, 2004) with specialisations in Migration Studies and Welfare States. Evelyn [...]