People

Daniel Edmiston

Principal Investigator of the WHOCOUNTS project at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) in the Department of Political Science and Public Law. To date, he has undertaken national and comparative research drawing on mixed methods approaches to explore the relationship between economic inequality, welfare politics and social citizenship. He is particularly interested in the impact of state-citizen dynamics on human welfare across high-income countries.

Joaquin Alcañiz

Postdoctoral researcher at the WHOCOUNTS project at the Department of Political Science and Public Law of the Autonomous University of Barcelona. His research mainly revolves around poverty, how it is perceived and reacted to people in this situation. Currently, he studies the consequences of poverty in the different forms and how to improve official data and statistics on poverty, considering the errors of coverage of some social groups systematically excluded from them.

Laman Orujova

Postdoctoral researcher at the WHOCOUNTS project at the Department of Political Science and Public Law of the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Her main research interests concern poverty measurement, inequality of opportunity, and multidimensional poverty. Currently, she is studying transitions between shallow and deep poverty, and methods to improve the coverage of the groups excluded from official statistics.

Bea Cantillon

Member. Research fellow of the Herman Deleek Centre for Social Policy (University of Antwerp), and Professor at the Department of Sociology at the University of Antwerp.

Imogen Tyler

Member. Imogen Tyler is a Professor of Sociology at Lancaster University and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.

Eric Crettaz

Member. Full Professor at the University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland and Research Fellow at the Centre of Social Research “Laboratoire Intermigra”.

Mary Daly

Member. Professor of Sociology and Social Policy at the Department and a Fellow of Green Templeton College. 

Tim Goedemé

Member. Senior research fellow of the Herman Deleek Centre for Social Policy (University of Antwerp), and Associate Member of the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School (University of Oxford).

Rense Nieuwenhuis

Member. Associate professor in sociology at the Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI) at Stockholm University.