Christian Haerpfer is Associate Professor (Reader) of Politics and Head of the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Aberdeen, UK. He is also Director of the European Centre for Comparative Survey Research (ECCSR) at the University of Aberdeen.
Ronald F. Inglehart (September 5, 1934 – May 8, 2021) was an American political scientist specializing in comparative politics. He was director of the World Values Survey, a global network of social scientists who have carried out representative national surveys of the publics of over 100 societies on all six inhabited continents, containing 90 percent of the world's population. The first wave of surveys for this project was carried out in 1981 and the latest wave was completed in 2019. From 2010 Inglehart also was co-director of the Laboratory for Comparative Social Research at the National Research University - Higher School of Economics in Moscow and St Petersburg. This laboratory has carried out surveys in Russia and eight ex-Soviet countries and is training PhD-level students in quantitative cross-national research methods. Inglehart died on 8 May 2021.
I am currently working as a Specialised Foundation Doctor at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust - a large university teaching hospital. As part of my academic role, I have several projects and publications in progress. My main areas of research include - medical ethics, AI, public health, and geriatrics/internal medicine. I have done placements in Orthopaedic Surgery, General Surgery, Geriatric/Internal Medicine, General Practice, Research, & Oncology. On-call cover for medical admissions, AMU, cardiology, diabetes & endocrine, respiratory, geriatrics, and surgery including general surgery, breast surgery, urology and trauma & orthopaedics. I graduated from The University of Manchester in July 2022 in MBChB Medicine and MSc Healthcare Ethics & Law. I have an active full medical licence in the UK (Full GMC registration) and in Switzerland (MedReg). I have a DELF B2 diploma in French - independent user. I am open to new work opportunities and research collaborations.
Charis Psaltis is the coordinator of the Greek Cypriot team of the Cyprus Chapter since 2014 and a member in GTF since 2009. He is an Associate Professor of Social and Developmental Psychology at the University of Cyprus. He holds a degree in Educational Sciences and a degree in Psychology. He received his MPhil and PhD in Social and Developmental Psychology from the Department of Social and Developmental Psychology, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences of the University of Cambridge. He also worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the Oxford Centre for the Study of Intergroup Conflict at the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford, where he studied intergroup contact and Intergoup relations between Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots. He currently runs the University Centre for Field Studies at the University of Cyprus and co-directs the Genetic Social Psychology Lab. He is the Cyprus national coordinator for Round 10 of European Social Survey (ESS).
I graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2009 with a joint PhD in sociology and demography. Before arriving at the School of Sociology at University College Dublin in 2016, I worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Office of Population Research at Princeton University, a lecturer in the Department of Political and Social Science at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra and an assistant professor in the Sociology Department at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.
Dr Micheál L. Collins is Assistant Professor of Social Policy at the School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice, University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland. Prior to joining UCD, he was Senior Economist at the Nevin Economic Research Institute (NERI). His research interests and publications are in the areas of income distribution and poverty, taxation, fiscal welfare, pensions, economic evaluation and public policy. He was a member of Ireland’s Commission on Taxation (2008-2009), the Irish Government’s Advisory Group on Tax and Social Welfare (2011-2014) and served as the external member of the Irish Government’s interdepartmental group examining the reform of Ireland’s income tax and social insurance system (2017-18). He is a former member of the National Competitiveness and Productivity Council (2015-2021) and a former chair of the Irish Social Policy Association (ISPA) and the Regional Studies Association (RSA) of Ireland. Micheál is current coordinator of the European Social Survey Round 11 in Ireland and the Irish representative on the EU-wide Cost Action PROFEEDBACK (Policy Evaluation EU COST action 20112).