Program Goal: In the spirit of the GLO Mission, the goal of the GLO Virtual Young Scholars Program (GLO VirtYS) is to contribute to the development of the future generation of researchers, who are committed to the creation of policy-relevant research, are well equipped to work in collaboration with policy makers and other stakeholders, and adhere to the highest standards of academic integrity. This goal is achieved through the process of working on a specific research paper within the duration of the program, which is 9 months, and interact with the GLO VirtYS cohort and its advisors .
GLO VirtYS Program Director:
- Dr Olena Nizalova, Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) in Health Economics at the University of Kent
Dr Olena Nizalova is an Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) in Health Economics at the University of Kent. She received her doctoral degree at Michigan State University (USA) in 2006, and prior to joining the University of Kent worked at the Kyiv School of Economics. Olena’s research interests are in the fields of labor and health economics, economics of aging, and policy evaluation. Her research focuses on the interplay between labour market, health and family obligations, be it the provision of informal care to elderly parents in the USA and Europe or the wage penalty for motherhood (Ukraine), or the impact of labor market outcomes on health and wellbeing. Her research has been supported by the European Commission, Wellcome Trust, MRC, UKAid, ESRC, World Bank, European Commission Horizon 2020 programme, Global Development Network, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, ERSTE Foundation (Austria), and Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies (University of Michigan). Currently, Dr Nizalova’s studies the population health crisis in the countries of the former Soviet Union, with special emphasis on tuberculosis (impact of TB epidemic on individual and firms’ productivity), maternal and infant health (evaluation of the maternal and infant health interventions), and cardio-vascular diseases.
GLO VirtYS Program Assistant: Yannis Galanakis
Program’s Advisory Board:
- Jan van Ours, Professor of Applied Economics, Erasmus School of Economics Rotterdam, Netherlands, & Professorial Fellow, University of Melbourne, Australia
- Marie Claire Villeval, Research Professor, CNRS GATE, France
- Marco Vivarelli, Professor at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milano and Director of the Department of Economic Policy
- Le Wang, Chong K. Liew Chair and Professor & President’s Associates Presidential Professor, University of Oklahoma, USA
- Klaus F. Zimmermann, Professor Emeritus, Bonn University, UNU-MERIT & President of GLO
Program’s Activities:
- Virtual kick-off meeting of all the participants and Thematic Cluster advisors, who will be appointed by the participating Cluster leads to match closely participants’ research interests.
- One-to-one activities with the Thematic Cluster Advisor will be agreed upon at the beginning of the scholarship period in an Individual Research Plan. These activities at a minimum shall include 2-3 virtual consultations, 1 review round of the completed research work and a discussion of the amendments (if needed) to follow up.
- Provide a virtual platform for the GLO VirtYS program participants to present their findings and receive feedback from their peers and the GLO wider community.
- The scholarship will conclude in June 2023 followed by the presentations by the scholars within the GLO-wide seminar series in September 2023, after which the GLO Management Board will make a decision on whether to extend an invitation to the graduate of the GLO Virtual Scholar Program to join the organization as a GLO Fellow, based on the recommendation from their Thematic Cluster Advisors and evaluation of the GLO VirtYS Advisory Board.
Benefits to the GLO VirtYS Scholars:
- No fees: Participation is free for the scholars.
- All GLO VirtYS program participants will be appointed GLO Affiliates, if they are not already, and receive a GLO Bio page.
- GLO VirtYS program participants will be listed with pictures on the glabor.org website of the program.
- Feedback on their research from leading researchers in the area of their interest.
- Networking opportunities with researchers from other countries within the same area and beyond.
- (Priority) access to GLO activities.
- Interactions with the scholars of the cohort, program’s alumni, and the future cohorts.
- Opportunity to promote own research via GLO channels.
- Completed research paper ready for submission to the GLO Discussion Paper series.
- Possibility of promotion to GLO Fellow after exceptional performance.
Eligibility criteria:
- Applicant must be either currently enrolled in a doctoral program or be within 2 years after graduation as evidenced by the letter from the degree awarding institution or a degree certificate.
- Applicant must be at an advanced stage of the analysis of a specific research question within the corresponding GLO Thematic Cluster to which he/she is applying as evidenced by the submitted draft.
- Applicant must be supported by a letter of endorsement from either one of the GLO Fellows or from the administration of one of the GLO supporting institutions.
2024-25 GLO Virtual Young Scholars Program (GLO VirtYS)
- CALL FOR APPLICATIONS with LINK to application form
2023-24 GLO Virtual Young Scholars Program (GLO VirtYS)
- 2023-24 GLO VirtYS Cohort: Mehrzad B. Baktash, Sandipa Bhattacharjee, Tarana Chauhan, Elif Dilden, Xinyan Liu, Yannick Markhof, Vincent Ramos, Peikang Zhang and Jiong Zhu
- 2023-24 GLO VirtYS Cohort Advisors in the sequence above are: Anthony Lepinteur, Shamma Alam, Jose Alberto Molina, Kompal Sinha, Astghik Mavisakalyan, Almas Heshmati, Uwe Jirjahn, Elena Meschi and Xi Chen
- CALL FOR APPLICATIONS with LINK to application form
2022-23 GLO Virtual Young Scholars Program (GLO VirtYS)
- VirtYS Research Seminar on October 19, 2023: Leena Bhattacharya on Time allocation of daughters-in-law and mothers-in-law in India: The role of education as bargaining power. Video
- 2022-23 GLO VirtYS Cohort: Leena Bhattacharya, Robina Kouser and Pragati Pragati. GLO advisors are Victoria Vernon, Suresh Babu and Sudipta Sarangi.
- CALL FOR APPLICATIONS with LINK to application form
2021-22 GLO Virtual Young Scholars Program (GLO VirtYS)
- September 22, 2022. Final Research Workshop.
- 2021-22 GLO VirtYS Cohort: Zubaria Andlib, Shweta Bahl, Karla Cordova, María Celeste Gómez, Liwen Guo and Subhasree Sarkar. GLO advisors are Sergio Scicchitano, Eva Sierminska, Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Maria Enrica Virgillito, Xi Chen, and Elena Meschi, respectively.
- GLO News about the CALL FOR APPLICATIONS (deadline EXTENDED to September 24, 2021; deadline passed)
- CALL FOR APPLICATIONS with LINK to application form
2020-21 GLO Virtual Young Scholars Program (GLO VirtYS)
- Third Webinar (seminar on September 30, 2021 with presentations by Jie Chen and Muchin Bazan Ruiz). Report of the event. Watch the videos of the event: Chen and Ruiz.
- Second Webinar (seminar on September 16, 2021 with presentations by Odmaa Narantungalag and Soumya Pal). Watch the video of the event: Soumya Pal.
- First Webinar (seminar on September 9, 2021 with presentations by Jun Hyung Kim and Femke Cnossen). Report of the event. Watch the videos of the event: Kim and Cnossen.
- 2020-21 GLO VirtYS Cohort: Jie Chen, Femke Cnossen, Jun Hyung Kim, Odmaa Narantungalag, Soumya Pal and Muchin Bazan Ruiz
- GLO News about the CALL FOR APPLICATIONS (deadline passed)
- CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
2019-20 GLO Virtual Young Scholars Program (GLO VirtYS)
- Third Webinar (seminar on October 15, 2020 with presentations by Zhiling Wang & Ömer Tuğsal Doruk). Watch the video of the event.
- Second Webinar (seminar on September 17, 2020 with presentations by Satyendra Kumar Gupta & Kelly Hyde). Report of the event. Watch the video of the event.
- First Webinar (seminar on September 10, 2020 with presentations by Yannis Galanakis & Samuel Mann). Report of the event. Watch the video of the event.
- 2019-20 GLO VirtYS Cohort (see the listed participants and their advisors; public announcement was on December 23, 2019)
- CALL FOR APPLICATIONS (deadline passed)
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