ISCI Awards 2024

Prof. Jonathan Bradshaw is an Emeritus Professor of Social Policy at the University of York. He joined the University in 1967 and was the founding Director of the Social Policy Research Unit from 1973 to 1987. He served two terms as Head of Department from 1988-1994 and 2003-2007. He also served as Director of the Institute for Research in the Social Sciences from 1994-1998. He was president of the Foundation for International Studies in Social Security from 1999-2003. He was appointed Academician of the Learned Societies for the Social Sciences in 1996, Commander of the British Empire (CBE) in 2005 for services to child poverty, and Fellow of the British Academy in 2010. In 2011 he was made Doctor of the University of Turku, Finland (honoris causa) and of the University of Bath (honoris causa) in 2015. He is a Board member of the Child Poverty Action Group and Chair of their Policy Committee.

He is still engaged in research and writing. He is the UK co-ordinator of the European Social Policy Network and co-PI on the Children’s Worlds project.

Dr. Robert Goerge is a Chapin Hall Senior Research Fellow with more than 35 years of experience in research focused on improving the available data and information on children and families, particularly those who require specialized services related to maltreatment, disability, poverty, or violence. Dr. Goerge focuses on families participating in multiple child and family programs, including child welfare, TANF, and Medicaid. He received recognition for conducting pioneering child welfare administrative data analyses in the 1980s and 1990s. He was among the first to use record linkage to link child welfare program participant data to other social program administrative data. He has also received ACF funding for understanding childcare use and parental employment in multiple states. He evaluated the impact of welfare reform on education, juvenile justice, human services, and health care. He is the PI of an OPRE-funded Child Care Policy Research Partnership project and Child Care Development Block Grant evaluation award. He was recently awarded a grant from the Institute for Educational Sciences to conduct an RCT of a college success program. He was the PI of the National Survey of Early Care and Education.

Goerge is a Committee on National Statistics member at the National Academy of Sciences. He is a Senior Fellow at the Harris School of Public Policy and NORC at the University of Chicago. He co-founded the Master of Science in Computational Analysis & Public Policy at the University of Chicago. Goerge co-founded the International Society of Child Indicators.

Lisa Fischer is a PhD candidate and former research assistant at the department of general and historical educational science at the Technische Universität Berlin (TUB), Germany. Her research focuses on the dynamics between the concrete everyday worlds of children and social, pedagogical and political discourses on childhood(s). Her award-winning empirical diploma thesis was published as a monograph in 2020. As an early career researcher she is part of the Berlin team of the Children's Understandings of Well-being (CUWb) study and is a founding member of the CUWb emerging scholar network.
 
Her expertise lies in the area of qualitative research methods and includes systematic reflections on epistemologies of education from a child-centered perspective. Empirically she works with ethnographic and applied approaches of participatory childhood and child well-being research in the field of social pedagogy as well as from a spatial, inequality and power analysis perspective. Lisa is especially interested in children’s relationships in the context of digitalization.