Experts

Carmen is a PhD student in Economics at the University of Warwick, where she specialises in applied microeconomic research. Since 2017 she works at the Centre for Economic performance researching various crime and urban economics topics. Her recent research has focused on gang violence and drug markets.

Michael Vlassopoulos is professor of Economics at the University of Southampton and a research fellow of the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Germany. Michael is an applied microeconomist with interests that span a number of areas including labour, education, health, and development economics. Recent research focuses on topics such as racial and ethnic discrimination, mental health, social and educational integration of refugees, network and spillover effects in education.

Stephanie’s research builds on the biomedical as well as social science literature. She investigates the importance of genetics, early life environments, parental investments, and government policy in explaining individuals’ health and behaviour over the life course. She currently holds an ERC Starting Grant (2020-2025) that aims to incorporate genetic data into social science research and study the importance of the nature-nurture interplay in the developmental origins of health and

Maarten Voors is an Associate Professor at the Development Economics Group at Wageningen University. He received his PhD from Wageningen University in 2011 (with honours) and was an Isaac Newton Trust Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge 2011-2013. His main field is development economics, and his research focuses on institutions, (post-conflict) development and behaviour.

Tim is the Pro Vice-Chancellor and Dean of Oxford Brookes Business School. He is an economic geographer, currently co-leading a study examining the impact of Covid-19 on Innovation-led businesses for the Innovation Caucus (ESRC/InnovateUK) and on micro-businesses as part of the Productivity Insights Network (ESRC) of which he is a Co-Director. Tim has also recently edited a book on Productivity and the Pandemic.

Sun?ica Vuji? is an Associate Professor at the University of Antwerp, an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Bath, and a Research Fellow at the IZA – Institute of Labor Economics in Bonn. Her areas of expertise are applied econometrics and labour economics, focussing on research questions in economics of education, crime, gender, health, fertility, migration, Brexit, labour market discrimination and pro-social behaviour. She holds a Ph.D. in economics from the VU