Manisha Shah? is a development economist whose research interests lie at the intersection of microeconomics, health, and education with a focus on women and youth. ?Recent papers focus on violence against women and regulation of sex markets. Shah is Professor of Public Policy at UCLA and Founder of the ?Global Lab for Research in Action?; ?a ?research institute? that ?pursues evidence-based solutions to critical health, education and economic challenges faced by vulnerable populations around
Luskin School of Public Affairs, UCLA
Manisha Shah
University of Manchester
William Shankley
William is currently a postdoctoral researcher based in the Cathie Marsh Institute (CMI) and a staff member in the Department of Sociology. He is currently working on an ESRC project entitled ‘Together and Apart: the Dynamics of Ethnic Diversity, Segregation and Social Cohesion among Young People and Adults’ with Dr James Laurence. William is also a UK Data Service Impact Fellow and a recipient of the ESRC Baltic Scholarship (University of Riga). William completed his PhD in Sociology with a
UCL
Tali Sharot
Sharot is a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow. Her research focuses on how emotion, motivation and social factors influence our expectations, decisions and beliefs. Her papers have been published in top scientific journals including Nature, Science and Nature Neuroscience. Dr. Sharot is the author of The Optimism Bias (2011) and The Influential Mind (2017), both of which received the British Psychological Society Book Award. She has written essays for the popular press that have been
Health Foundation
Nihar Shembavnekar
Nihar is an economist at the Health Foundation and works primarily on labour market issues in health and social care. Previously, he worked as a labour market economist at HM Treasury, where he undertook research on minimum wage policy. Nihar also has prior experience in quantitative and qualitative research at Ofgem and ICF Consulting. His areas of expertise include labour economics, development economics and international trade.
The University of Sheffield
Anastasia Shesterinina
Dr Shesterinina is Director of the Centre for the Comparative Study of Civil War, UKRI Future Leaders Fellow leading the £1.2m Civil War Paths project (https://www.civilwarpaths.org/) and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Sheffield. Her field-intensive research examines internal
Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford
Mehdi Shiva
Mehdi is an Economist at the GO Lab. His work involves enhancing the reliability of impact bond evaluations by promoting robust economic evaluation methods such as cost-effectiveness and decision analysis. Prior to joining the GO Lab team, he worked with medical researchers at the Ninewells Hospital, Dundee to analyse the cost-effectiveness of an innovative methods of diagnosing prostate cancer. Other experience
