Experts

Kim is the Associate Director for the Fulfilling Work Priority Goal at the Centre for Ageing Better. She leads the strategic agenda that challenges employers to think differently about older workers and aims to have 1 million more people aged between 55 and state pension age in fulfilling work by 2022. She is a trustee of the Dementia Adventure charity, a steering group member of the Battersea Academy for Skills and Employment and a governor of Abercrombie Primary School in Chesterfield.

Anita Charlesworth is the Director of Research and Economics at the Health Foundation, and Honorary Professor in the College of Social Sciences at the Health Services Management Centre (HSMC) at the University of Birmingham.

Stella Chatzitheochari is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick. Her research focuses on time-use research, exploring a wide range of topics such as gender and leisure inequality, couple and family time, and effects of mobile devices on everyday life. She is also PI of the Leverhulme Trust project on “Educational Pathways and Work Outcomes of Disabled Young People in England, focusing on socio-economic disadvantage and life transitions of disabled youth.

Parama Chaudhury is Founding Director of CTaLE and a Principal Fellow of the HEA. Her research interests lie in economics education, especially the evaluation of teaching technologies and techniques. She is currently working on a project analysing the sources of the BAME attainment gap in university and has recently published a chapter on best practices in teaching economics. Parama also leads CTaLE’s consultancy work in providing blended learning in economics to the UK government.

Joseph M. Cheer is a Professor of Sustainable Tourism and Heritage, and Associate Dean, International, School of Social Sciences, Western Sydney University, Australia. In 2023, he was listed in the Top 2% of researchers in the Sport, Leisure and Tourism field. He is Co-Editor-in-Chief of Tourism Geographies, Co-Chair of the World Economic Forum Global Future Council on the Future of Sustainable Tourism (2023-2024) and Co-Chair of the American Association of Geographers, Recreation, Tourism and Sport

Fred Chen is a professor of economics at Wake Forest University. Prof. Chen teaches microeconomics, mathematical economics, and game theory. His main research interests involve the application of economic principles to issues in public health, population biology, and sustainability studies.