| Name & Present Position |
Discipline & Academic Qualifications |
Research Interest and Experience |
Dr Allister McGregor
Director WeD |
Economic Anthropology
PhD |
- Focus of research is on policy processes in developing
countries and, in particular, how the formulation and implementation
of development policies impact upon poor people. This is
pursued through work in a range of different substantive
policy fields; from microfinance and enterprise development
(for example in Kenya with the REME project) to natural
resources management (as a recent example, coastal zone
management in India) and has involved research in South
and South East Asia as well as in East Africa.
- Countries: Thailand, Bangladesh, Indonesia,
Kenya, Albania
|
Prof. Ian Gough
Deputy Director WeD
Professor of Social Policy;
Co-Director, Social Policy in Development Contexts, an ESCOR-funded
research programme |
Social Policy
MA |
- Comparative Welfare systems·
- Theory of Human Need·
- Welfare Regimes in East Asia·
- Competitiveness and Welfare States·
- Exclusion and Safety Nets·
- Globalisation and Social Policy
- Countries: Thailand, Indonesia, South
East Asia (Regional)
|
Prof. Suzanne Skevington
Deputy Director WeD Professor of Psychology |
Psychology
PhD |
- 1992 - 2000 Work on the development of the WHOQOL World
Health Organisation
- 1995 Analysis of the psychometric properties for a new
quality of life measure for cross-cultural use in the UK
Wellcome trust
- Countries: 40 countries involved in WHOQOL.
Specific links with Thailand
|
Dr Joe Devine
Lecturer in International Development |
Political Science
PhD |
- 2000 Social Science Advisor to Workshop on arsenic mitigation,
Bangladesh DFID
- 1990-93 Co-ordinator and teacher on Non Formal Education
Programme and Primary Feeder School Programme among outcaste
communities, Khulna, Bangladesh·
- Countries: Bangladesh, India, Peru
|
Dr Sarah White
Director of Centre for Development Studies
Lecturer in Sociology of Development |
Sociology of Development
PhD |
- Gender and Class in Bangladesh·
- 1992 Literature review on female headed households in
Bangladesh ODA
- 2000 Street Children in the Dhaka Slums ESCOR/DFID
- Countries: Bangladesh, India, Kenya,
Sri Lanka
|
Dr Pip Bevan
Research Fellow in the Sociology of Development |
Sociology of Development
D Phil (Sociology) |
- 1994-5 The Sociology of African Rural Economies: Case
Study 1: Ethiopia ODA/ESCOR
- 1998-9 Exploring the Dynamics of Poverty in Africa: a
Regional Case Study from Uganda DFID (with Heady and Nyanzi)
- Social Development Consultancy Northern Pakistan Aga Khan
Rural Support Programme
- Countries: Ethiopia, Uganda, Pakistan
|
Dr Susan Johnson
Lecturer in Development Economics |
Economics of Development
PhD |
- 1999-2002 Local Level Financial Markets project of Finance
and Development Research Programme, DFID/ESCOR
- 1999-2001 Finca Malawi Impact Assessment research
- 1999 Impact Assessment of CARE PULSE Microfinance programme,
Zambia
- 1998 Mid Term Review of Proshika, Bangladesh DFID
- Countries: Kenya, Zambia, Malawi, Bangladesh
|
Dr James Copestake
Senior Lecturer in Development Economics |
Economics of Development
PhD |
- Poverty Impact Assessment and Microfinance
- Countries: Zambia, India, Malawi, Kenya,
Peru, Bolivia, Honduras, Mexico
|
Prof. Geof Wood
Head of Department, Economics and International Development |
Political Sociology
PhD |
- 1998-2001 Social Policy in Development Contexts DFID/ESCOR
- 1994 - present Vulnerable Livelihoods in the Urban Economy,
LSHTM, IDPAA, Proshika,
- 1996 - present Poverty and Livelihoods in the Central
Sierra, Peru British Council
- Countries: Bangladesh, Peru, Pakistan,
India
|
Dr Adrian Winnett
Lecturer in Economics |
Natural Resource Economics
PhD |
- Small-scale resource management in developing countries
- Role of environmental values in financial decision making
- Fair trade
- 1995 Poverty, Equity and Sustainability in the Management
of Inland Capture Fisheries in South and South East Asia,
ODA
- Countries: Thailand, Indonesia, Bangladesh
|
Prof. Hartley Dean
Professor of Social Policy, London School of Economics
|
Social Policy
PhD |
- 'Dependency Culture: The image and reality of the claiming
experience', ESRC with Taylor-Gooby)
- 'Welfare Citizenship and Economic Rationality', ESRC
- 'Poverty, Wealth and Citizenship', ESRC (with Melrose)
- ‘The social policy implications of contemporary begging',
University of Luton
- ‘Working Strategies in Low Income Families’, ESRC
|
Dr Laura Camfield
Postdoctoral Fellow |
Social Anthropology
PhD |
- Quality of life and subjective wellbeing
- Qualitative and quantitative methodologies (especially
creation and use of measures and participatory research)
- Narrative and discourse
- Chronic illness, disability and HIV/AIDS
- Countries: UK, N. Pakistan
|
Dr David Clark
Postdoctoral Fellow
MPhil. PhD (Cantab) |
Applied Development Studies and Political Economy |
- Concepts and perceptions of human well-being and development
- Capability Approach
- Poverty, inequality and social justice
- Participatory approaches to development
- Libertarianism with special reference to the problem of
paternalism in development
- Philosophical issues in economics and methodology
- Countries: South Africa and Southern
Africa generally
|
Dr Bereket Kebede
Postdoctoral fellow in Development Economics |
Development Economics
PhD |
- 1994-1997: extensive experience in managing large rural
and urban household surveys in Ethiopia, Department of Economics,
Addis Ababa University
- 2001-02: African Economic Research Consortium (AERC),
Nairobi, “Poverty, Income Distribution and Labour
Market Issues”
- 2001-02: Foundation for Advanced Studies on International
Development (FASID), “Poverty and Institutions”
- 1999-2002: African Energy Policy Research Network (AFREPREN),
Nairobi, “Energy for the Urban Poor”
- Economics of intra-household allocations
- Poverty
- Household energy consumption
- Common property resources in rural areas
- Land tenure
- Countries: Ethiopia
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