Research Areas

This section of the site introduces you to our main research interests and areas of activity.  

We introduce you to current PhD students and the research with which they are engaged.  Click on the relevant Tab on the right-hand side of the page to see who we supervise and what they are working on.  We have asked them to introduce themselves and their work and from time to time we will bring updates from their work and inform those interested of publications and presentations and their other achievements. In all cases there is a lead supervisor and a co-supervisor - there are also more details on the Faculty and School of Social Sciences websites.  Our PhD students work with us on topics that fit in with our research interests and expertise; at other times students come with a desire to tackle a given issue and if we agree it is important and feel we have the expertise to guide and advise the research, we are happy to be involved.

We also highlight in this section of the site our research theme areas. These are varied and change over time to address emerging and cutting edge issues.  Each of us has particular areas of interest and focus, and these are briefly introduced here.  They are invariably cross-disciplinary and emerge from deep interest in the challenges facing development, development parctitioners, and the communities involved.

Projects

Opportunities 

.  One or both may be within the highlight current activities and our students, but also introduce you to work we have done, recently completed PhDs,  students and topics, key Development Studies Themes and related Projects, and current Opportunities.