Prasada Rao Emeritus Professor, School of Economics, University of Queensland
専攻:Economics/Econometrics
Prasada Rao Emeritus Professor, School of Economics, University of Queensland
専攻:Economics/Econometrics
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Index Number Methods for Spatial and Temporal Comparisons; Comparisons of Prices and Real Incomes; Modelling Income Distributions and Measurement of Global and Regional Inequality and Poverty; Measurement of Efficiency and Productivity
●研究をしていて楽しいと思うことはどんなことですか？
The challenge of problem solving and providing new insights in my discipline and areas of research.
● ご自身にとって「研究」とは？（一言で表すと。）
Research to me is a way of life, thinking and providing solutions to problems in my discipline. Ability to provide new insights and solutions gives me great joy and satisfaction.
●研究者になったきっかけを教えてください。
I was inspired by my teachers and outstanding scholars who taught me as a student at Indian Statistical Institute.
●若手研究者へのメッセージ
Enjoy your research and do research for its own sake and not for the sake of publications. Once you enjoy research, other results follow automatically. Doing research is not an occupation and not a 9 am to 5 pm job, it is a 24/7 engagement. Finally, when you are confronted with a problem don’t go and look for solutions in books and papers – try to think about the problem and try to solve it yourself! Good luck and just enjoy!
Maria Lohan Professor, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Queen’s University Belfast (UK)
専攻:Social Science and Health
Maria Lohan Professor, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Queen’s University Belfast (UK)
専攻:Social Science and Health
Professor Maria Lohan is Chair in Social Science and Health and UNESCO Chair in Gender Equality at the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Queen’s University Belfast. She is also Distinguished Visiting Professor at Hitotsubashi Institute for Advanced Studies (HIAS) at Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo Japan.
Professor Lohan’s research focuses on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and gender equality.
Within this field Professor Lohan has advanced a focus on engaging men and boys in fostering SRHR for women and girls, as well as for men/boys. She has focussed on achieving this through co-designing, implementing and evaluating relationship and sexuality education (in schools and in prison settings). This work has a multi-country focus in the UK, Ireland, Latin America, and Sub-Saharan Africa. It has included the largest randomised controlled trial ever of a relationship and sexuality education programme and the first trial to include a prospective health economic evaluation.
Professor Lohan works as a consultant to the World Health Organization where she has led systematic reviews of the global evidence on male engagement in SRHR and gender equality. Following compilation of the evidence, Professor Lohan was commissioned by WHO to lead an international team to conduct a global priority setting exercise on ‘Masculinities and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights’. The results were presented to international ministries at the United Nations International Conference on Population and Development in New York 2024.
Professor Lohan also works as a consultant to UNESCO and was commissioned by UNESCO in 2023 to compile an overview of the systematic review evidence on comprehensive sexuality education globally. She is a partner in the UNFPA/UNESCO Global Partnership Forum on Comprehensive Sexuality Education. UNESCO recently published a feature interview with Maria on this work.
Professor Lohan has worked closely with policy makers in the UK and Ireland and convened a ‘Six nations policy makers forum on Relationship and Sexuality Education(RSE)’. She has published widely in high rankings international peer-reviewed journals including the BMJ, The Lancet Public Health. She has led over ten international team studies as principal investigator with research funding gained from the National Institute of Health and Care research, the Medical Research Council and Economic cand Social Research Council, amongst others. She has contributed as a team member to many more. Recently, she co-published with HIAS member Assistant Professor Mizanur Rahman in the Lancet Global Health.
She is keen teacher of graduate students and mentor for early career staff. She looks forward to meeting staff and students at HIAS for the duration of her visiting position in 2024; 2025 and 2026.
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Health and Gender Equality , especially Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) and especially men’s/boys’ engagement in SRHR
●研究をしていて楽しいと思うことはどんなことですか？
I enjoy engaging with different perspectives and i especially enjoy learning about multi-cultural and interdisciplinary perspectives.
● ご自身にとって「研究」とは？（一言で表すと。）
Finding out what you can, the best way that you can
●研究者になったきっかけを教えてください。
I guess I liked reading and writing – and university life – and I just kept at it. Once you get your PhD, you are qualified, and once you get your first job, you are on your way to a career.
●若手研究者へのメッセージ
Don’t be afraid of the blank page, it gives you space to start (again).
René Belderbos Full Professor, Faculty of Economics and Business, KU Leuven (Belgium)
専攻:Economics and Strategy of Innovation and Multinational Firms
René Belderbos Full Professor, Faculty of Economics and Business, KU Leuven (Belgium)
専攻:Economics and Strategy of Innovation and Multinational Firms
I am a full professor of Strategy at KU Leuven (Belgium) and part-time professor of International Corporate Strategy at Maastricht University and UNU-MERIT (The Netherlands). My research focuses on innovation strategies and international business strategies of multinational firms.
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Innovation, Intellectual Property Rights, R&D collaboration, Location decisions, Innovative entrepreneurship, Industry-Science linkages
●研究をしていて楽しいと思うことはどんなことですか？
To be able to follow my curiosity.
● ご自身にとって「研究」とは？（一言で表すと。）
Rigor & Relevance
●研究者になったきっかけを教えてください。
My first efforts to do research for my Master thesis.
●若手研究者へのメッセージ
Collaborate and learn, following your curiosity.