DPRP graduates

Pensiri Ariyapruchya

Pensiri is a consultant for the Asian Development Bank, based in Bangkok and working on financial inclusion.

Thesis: When self-organization meets formalization: An institutional analysis of savings groups in Thailand.

Ahmed Aref

Ahmed is an experienced research and policy specialist, working for DIFI, Qatar Foundation, as a planning and content manager.

Thesis: Family-focused social protection systems in the Gulf: Is maternity being left behind?

Seung-Jin Baek

Seung-Jin is a South Korean economist specialising in development economics and policy.

Thesis: The quest for inclusive sustainable development: Economic growth, inequality and environmental interactions in the process of structural transformation of low-income countries.

Baljit Banga

Baljit is Director of the London Black Women’s Project, a human rights-based feminist organisation addressing all forms of violence against women and girls.

Thesis title: The impact of procurement on women’s refuges in the United Kingdom.

Sooksiri Chamsuk

Sooksiri is a Programme Officer for the UN's Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO), based in Bangkok.

Thesis: Live well or save the planet? Greenhouse gas reduction, carbon finance, and wellbeing in the Global South.

Philippe Clerc

Philippe is the Resilience Development Adviser of UNDP Turkey.

Thesis: Breakthrough or buzzword? The uses and misuses of 'resilience’ in the Syrian refugee response in Turkey.

Leigh Crowley

Leigh currently works as a Project Associate at the Government Outcomes (GO) Lab, an academic research centre within the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford.

Thesis: Governing the ‘state of emergency’: An evaluation of homelessness-oriented policies in Portland, Oregon.

Jeff Farrar

Jeff is Chair of University Hospitals Bristol and Weston Area Health Trust and former Chief Constable of Gwent Police.

Thesis: Incentives and disincentives to system-wide responses to public sector challenges in the UK.

Caroline Fazli

Caroline is an independent development, education and social research consultant based in India.

Thesis: Repairing the metabolic rift? Knowledge, values and visions of development in the agroecology movement in Rayalaseema.

James Georgalakis

James is Director of Evidence and Impact at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) at the University of Sussex, with overall leadership of the Institute’s policy engagement, research impact and communications strategies.

Thesis: UK public health network dynamics as a determinant of emergent Covid-19 evidence paradigms.

Susan Godt

Susan retired as Senior Programme Specialist for Canada’s International Development Research Centre in 2019.

Thesis: Private global corporations and the SDGs: Case studies of primary health and education provision in Kenya and Uganda.

Gemma Grimes

Thesis: Renewable energy and climate policy under the Conservatives: Examining Conservative Party explanations of policy change and policy dismantling 2010-2020.

Laura Hilger

Laura is a public policy researcher and methodologist, and Research Director at Verian UK.

Thesis: Mind the gap: Social policymaking in the UK in theory and practice.

Njahira Mary Karanja

Njahira worked for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and was involved with advocacy on rule of law matters including transnational crime such as illicit drug and human trafficking, terrorism, wildlife crime, among others.

Thesis: Values and technology in justice: an exploration of blockchain’s transformative potential for case management in Kenya.

Javed Ahmed Malik

Javed is Pakistan Director of Democracy Reporting International, a Berlin-based organisation working with the parliaments of emerging democracies to improve human rights.

Thesis: Reforming the government or managing the status quo: Investigating the role of policy actors in shaping long-term institutional change in large-scale education system reforms in Punjab (2009-18).

Rabia Nusrat

Rabia works with Palladium International as a Programme Manager within the Governance Cluster.

Thesis: Negotiating the status quo: Everyday lived realties of the urban middle class in Pakistan.

Heidi Peterson

Heidi is the Senior Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Manager (International Development) at the UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS).

Thesis: Participatory rubric-based approaches to assessing value for money: an investigation into their usefulness in social change initiatives.

Margaret Satya Rose

Margaret is a lawyer specialising in public procurement law. She is Principal Consultant at the Procurement Innovation and Leadership Lab, and Lecturer on the MSc in Procurement Management at the Mona School of Business, University of the West Indies.

Thesis: Examining the normative-ethical orientation of modern public procurement governance systems.

Ali Salman

Ali is a thinktank professional based in Kuala Lumpur, and is CEO of the Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs (IDEAS) and Islam and Liberty Network, Malaysia.

Thesis: Policy discovery through a complexity lens: case studies of economic reforms and policy practice in Malaysia and Pakistan.

Valentina Sommacal

Currently consulting for the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Valentina is a development specialist with experience in the management, sustainability and evaluation of projects in the fields of gender, private sector and value chain development, livelihoods and institution building.

Thesis: Making food systems more just: What role for the private sector? The case of agribusinesses in the horticulture sector in the Foggia Province of Italy.

Stephan Zimmermann

Stephan works for the World Bank Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, based in Brussels.

Thesis: Investment in sovereign disaster risk financing strategies: a review, with particular reference to the experience of small island states from 2010 to 2019.

About the course

The Doctorate in Policy Research and Practice (DPRP) course is designed to enable experienced professionals working in a range of policy arenas – locally, nationally and globally – to develop their policy analysis expertise without having to take a full career break.

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