Experts

Dr. Rachel Dodds is a globally known expert in sustainable tourism and a passionate changemaker. She has worked in the tourism industry helping governments, businesses and consumers make more sustainable tourism choices for over 30 years. Dr. Dodds is a professor at Toronto Metropolitan University and the Director of a boutique consultancy called Sustaining Tourism. She has published hundreds of articles globally about destination planning and policy, overtourism, consumer motivations and

Battal Dogan is a senior lecturer at the University of Bristol, where he has taught since September 2018. His research combines ideas from market design, mechanism design, choice theory, and game theory.

Subjective wellbeing, preference elicitation, economic appraisal, social preferences, equity, behavioural science.

Specialist in: Education Economics, Labour Economics, Health Economics, and Applied Econometrics. Advised OECD, World Bank, HMT and many government departments. Sat on Pay Review Bodies for teachers, doctors and the Armed Forces. Research interests in many applied economic policy questions. Currently Professor of Economics, University of Sussex and Research Director,  NIESR.

Magdalena Domínguez is a research economist at the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Magdalena is part of the community wellbeing programme and the policing and crime group.

Áine’s PhD focuses on two areas of economic history: 19th century Ireland and post-Industrial Revolution pandemics. Her work on 19th century Ireland examines parish-level pre-famine living conditions and how these contributed to the severity of the Great Irish Famine. She also studies the relationship between fertility and access to finance in the 19th century. Her research on pandemics assesses the economic and demographic impact of pandemics and the lessons this can offer for future research.