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Harvard University

Samantha Burn

She is a PhD candidate in Health Policy at Harvard and research affiliate of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science. Her research is in health economics and public finance. Her primary research focuses on productivity and allocation of resources within public health care systems

University of Strathclyde

Richard Butler

Dr. Richard Butler is Emeritus Professor of Tourism and has acted as consultant for numerous public and private sector agencies and held visiting professorships in Australia, New Zealand, Austria, Italy Hong Kong and the Netherlands. He has published 28 books and over 200 papers and chapters in books. His main research areas are destination development, sustainability, overtourism, indigenous tourism, and tourism in peripheral areas. In 2016 he was awarded the UNWTO Ulysses medal for ‘excellence

Tulane University

Patrick Button

Patrick Button is an Assistant Professor in Economics at Tulane University and Faculty Research Fellow at the NBER. He primarily researches the economics of ageing, disability, and discrimination. His two projects on COVID-19 are: (1) how the pandemic and resulting recession is affecting workers near retirement age, and (2) how access to mental health care, and discrimination in access to mental health care, is affected by COVID-19.

New York University

Luis Cabral

His primary research area is the study of firm dynamics (innovation, platforms, reputation) with a focus on media and entertainment industries. He has written numerous papers and books, including Introduction to Industrial Organizations (MIT Press).

University of Kent

Michael Calnan

Professor Michael Calnan is a sociologist involved with teaching and research in the Sociology of Health and Health policy. His recent books are entitled Health Policy, Power and Politics: Sociological Insights, (2020) Emerald and, Power, Policy and the Pandemic, (2022) Emerald. His current research includes a study into violence against doctors in India.

UCL Social Research Institute, University College London

Stuart Campbell

Stuart Campbell works at the UCL Social Research Institute, partly in the Centre for Time Use Research and partly in Quantitative Social Science. Stuart is studying education, social mobility, and migration.