Team members
Daniel Edmiston
Principal Investigator of the WHOCOUNTS project. 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 on the WHOCOUNTS project. His research mainly revolves around poverty, how it is perceived and responded to, as well as attitudes towards social protection. Currently, he studies the consequences of poverty in its different forms and how to improve poverty statistics by addressing non-coverage error for groups systematically excluded from official data.
Laman Orujova
Postdoctoral researcher on the WHOCOUNTS project. 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.
Violetta Tucci
Postdoctoral researcher on the WHOCOUNTS project. Her main research interests are social inequality, including housing and territorial issues. She is also interested in multidimensional poverty by incorporating subjective and non-monetary aspects of deprivation in the standard poverty analysis framework, and the role of social policies in reducing social exclusion.
Iñigo Aldama
Postdoctoral researcher on the WHOCOUNTS project. Iñigo Aldama has a History and Political Science background and holds a PhD in Social Policy from University College Dublin (Ireland) where he was Ad-Astra Pre-Doctoral Researcher. His main research interests concern Welfare Politics, Social Policy, Regionalism, Family Policy, Political Economy and Mixed Research Methods.
Advisory Board
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.
Olga Canto Sanchez
Member. Professor of Economics at the University of Alcala. Member of the research group EQUALITAS, main researcher in WEIPO and external researcher at ECOSOT.
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.
Tara Junes
Member. Senior Statistician at Statistics Finland.