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BRIEF CV FOR ALL MEMBERS OF THE RESEARCH GROUP (WeD BATH)

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)
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 Developmen
tPhD
  • 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 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

 

 

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