I am a Professor of Economics at the University
of Essex. My papers and my CV can be downloaded at https://www.iza.org/person/2905/sonia-r-bhalotra. I am PI on a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant, Co-Investigator and Co-Director of the ESRC Centre for Microsocial Change (housed in the Institute for Social and Economic Research) and Co-Investigator on an ESRC-funded Programme on Human Rights, Big Data and Technology (based in the Human Rights Centre in Law), both at Essex. I was recently a Principal Investigator on a large Grand Challenges Canada award on early life risk factors and cognitive development, in a consortium hosted by the University of Pennsylvania. I currently also hold other research awards from the Economic and Social Research Council (UK), the RCUK-Newton fund, the British Academy, the Bank of Sweden Research Department and the International Growth Centre. I am working with a team running a follow up of a randomized control trial funded by the National Institute of Health USA.
I am Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, a CROP (Bergen) Research Fellow, Research Fellow at SFI Denmark, Visiting Professor at the University of Gothenburg Sweden, on the International Advisory Boards of Academics Stand Against Poverty (Yale), the Goettingen India Centre (Germany) the Millennium Nucleus for the Study of the Life Course and Vulnerability in Chile and the Lancet theme on Women in Science, Medicine, and Global Health. I am on the Steering Group of a UNICEF-led Humanitarian Crises and Adolescents Network. I am a member of the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships Peer Review College and the GCRF Peer Review Group. Until recently I was on the British Academy Area Panel for South Asia, the Council of the European Society of Population Economics, on Scientific Committees at the World Health Organization and the International Labour Organization, on several ESRC committees and on the International Review Panels of the Danish and Swedish Research Councils. I have contributed on more than one occasion to UNESCO's Global Monitoring Report on Education.
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