Experts

Quite a lot of my current research is focused around families of children with an intellectual disability: family support for child mental health and family relationships, understanding the early years of development and children’s future outcomes, understanding school-related outcomes and child well-being.  A lot of this research also includes autistic children and their families, in particular autistic children with an intellectual disability. Over the years I have been maintaining an active

Ruth Towse is Professor of Economics of Creative Industries at the Centre for Intellectual Property Policy and Management, Bournemouth University, UK and Fellow of CREATe, University of Glasgow. She has written widely on cultural economics and the economics of copyright, with the focus on labour markets and earnings. She is the author of A Textbook of Cultural Economics 2nd edition.

Flavio Toxvaerd has fifteen years’ research experience in the economics of infectious diseases. His focus is on behavioural responses to epidemics, to better understand how people behave when facing disease risks. He has also researched optimal management of diseases through different policies such as voluntary social distancing, lockdowns, vaccination, treatment and testing. He has published on economic epidemiology in biology and economics journals and served as Senior Economic Advisor to

Anna works as a Behavioural Scientist at Lloyds Banking Group. She has a PhD in Psychology from the University of Warwick. She has an interest in generating behavioural insights from financial data. Previously, her research focused on estimating carbon footprints and understanding financial wellbeing from transactional data.

Karen is a Peruvian economist, currently student at the MSc programme in Global Health Policy at LSE. She holds a Master in Public Policy and Development from Toulouse School of Economics (TSE). She was previously an economic and policy analyst across several Ministries in Peru, such as Economy and Finance, Education and Production. Her research interests include economic valuation methods in health care policies, mental health and, regulatory impact analysis.

Peter Tschmuck is professor for Cultural Institutions Studies with a focus on music business/industry research and the economics of copyright. He is editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Music Business Research founder of the International Music Business Research Association (IMBRA) and teaches courses at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. In 2010, he held a guest-professorship at the James-Cook University in Townsville/Australia. Image credit: Sabine Hauswirth