Research by Geof Wood, Emeritus Professor of International Development, has been published on a Government website.
His paper Architects and Contractors: A Political Economy Analysis of Policy Research in Pakistan is posted on the Department for International Development (DFID) Research for Development website.
Professor Wood’s research was part of a DFID commission where he was landscaping and mapping development research across Pakistan and analysing its influence upon policy making.
The fieldwork was done with the Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) in Islamabad, where Professor Wood is a Visiting Fellow, at the end of last year.
Two of Professor Wood’s associates in the research were graduates of Bath: Arif Naveed, MRes in International Development; and Dr Shehryar Toru who gained his PhD last year.
Professor Wood is returning to Islamabad in early August for an input into another research project with the Rural Support Programme Network on community spaces through which poor rural women receive information and services about maternal care. During this visit, he will also be disseminating the Architects and Contractors paper.