Dr Deborah Johnston
BA MSc (Cantab), PhD (London)
Overview
- Name:
- Dr Deborah Johnston
- Email address:
- dj3@soas.ac.uk
- Telephone:
- 020 7898 4494
- Address:
- SOAS, University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG - Building:
- Russell Square: College Buildings
- Office No:
- 270
- Office Hours:
- Mondays 12pm - 2pm
Teaching
Programmes Convened
Courses Taught
- African Economic Development I (MSc Research for International Development)
- African economies 1: applied microeconomic analysis
- Economic development in Africa
- Economic development of Africa
- Growth & development
- Political Economy of Agriculture and Food
PhD Students supervised
- Jason Moyer-Lee,
- Jody Harris, (Working title) Realigning agriculture to improve nutrition: Evaluation of cross-sectoral nutrition governance in the Zambian context
- Kevin Deane, A Socio-economic Analysis of HIV : Exploring the relationship between population mobility and HIV risk in Tanzania
- Mausumi Mahapatro,
- Neha Batura, The Cause and Long-term Impact of Poor Nutrition: Evidence from Rural Tanzania
- Sara Stevano, Women’s work and household food practices: A study of northern Mozambique (working title)
Applied microeconomics in Africa, the development of macroeconomic theory and the relationship between growth and development.
Research
- Food, nutrition and agriculture
- Rural poverty and labour markets. Land reform and development. Poverty, development and HIV/Aids.
- Member of editorial board for Journal of Agrarian Change
- Member of advisory board for SOAS Centre of Food Studies
- Member of management committee for Leverhulme Centre for Integrative Research on Agriculture and Health http://www.lcirah.ac.uk/
Expertise
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Available for
Regional Expertise
- Africa
Country Expertise
Languages
Publications
Authored Books
Johnston, Deborah (1996) Lesotho. Oxford, England; Santa Barbara, Calif.: Clio Press. (World bibliographical series, v. 3)
Edited Books
Saad Filho, Alfredo and Johnston , Deborah, eds. (2004) Neoliberalism: A Critical Reader. London: Pluto Press.
Book Chapters
Johnston, Deborah (2012) 'Population and Migration.' In: Saad Filho, Alfredo and Fine, Ben, (eds.), The Elgar Companion to Marxist Economics. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 272-276.
Johnston, Deborah (2011) 'World Bank Research on HIV/AIDS: Praise Where It's Due?' In: Bayliss, Kate and Fine, Ben and Van Waeyenberge, Elisa, (eds.), The Political Economy of Development: The World Bank, Neoliberalism and Development Research. London: Pluto Press.
Johnston , Deborah and Sender, John (2008) 'Confusing counts, correlates and causes: The PRSP and poverty in Lesotho.' In: Rutten, M. and Leliveld, A. and Foeken, D., (eds.), Inside Poverty and Development in Africa: Critical Reflections on Pro-Poor Policies. Leiden: Brill, pp. 57-82.
Johnston, Deborah 'Land Reform.' In: Pons-Vignon, Nicolas, (ed.), APORDE Reader on Development Economics. APORDE. (Forthcoming)
Articles
Bookera, Anthony and Johnston , Deborah and Heinricha, Michael (2012) 'Value chains of herbal medicines—Research needs and key challenges in the context of ethnopharmacology.' Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 140 (3). pp. 624-633.
Howe, Laura D and Galobardes, Bruna and Matijasevich, Alicia and Gordon, David and Johnston , Deborah and Onwujeke, Obinna and Patel, Rita and Webb, Elizbeth A and Lawlor, Debbie A and Hargreaves, James R (2012) 'Measuring socio-economic position for epidemiological studies in low- and Middle-income countries: a methods of measurement in epidemiology paper.' International Journal of Epidemiology .
Johnston, Deborah (2011) 'Shooting for the wrong Target?: A Reassement of the International Education Goals for Sub-Saharan Africa.' Revista de Economia Mundial (27). pp. 95-116.
Hawkesworth, Sophie and Dangour, Alan D. and Johnston, Deborah and Lock, Karen and Poole, Nigel and Rushton, Jonathan and Uauy, Ricardo and Waage, Jeff (2010) 'Feeding the Worlth Healthily: the Challenge of Measuring the effects of Agriculture on Health.' Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 365 (1554). pp. 3083-3097.
Deane, Kevin and Parkhurst, Justin O. and Johnston, Deborah (2010) 'Linking Migration, Mobility and HIV.' Tropical Medicine and International Health, 15 (12). pp. 1458-1463.
Cramer, Christopher and Johnston, Deborah and Oya, Carlos (2009) 'Africa and the Global Credit Crunch: from crisis to opportunity?' African Affairs, 108 (433). pp. 643-654.
Johnston , Deborah (2008) 'Bias, not error: Assessments of the economic impact of HIV/AIDS from microstudies in Sub-Saharan Africa.' Feminist Economics, 14 (4). pp. 87-115.
Johnston, Deborah and Wall , Martin (2008) 'Counting Heads or Counting Televisions: Can Asset-based Measures of Welfare Assist Policy-makers in Russia?' Journal of Human Development, 9 (1). pp. 131-147.
Johnston , Deborah (2007) 'Who Needs Immigrant Workers: A Case Study of Immigrant Farmworkers in South Africa.' Journal of Agrarian Change, 7 (4). pp. 494-525.
Johnston , Deborah and Le Roux, H. (2007) 'Leaving the Household out of Family Labour? The Implications for the Size-Efficiency Relationship of Unreconstructed Thinking about the Households.' The European Journal of Development Research, 19 (3). pp. 355-71.
Johnston , Deborah (2006) 'Lessons to be learnt? The Role of Evaluations of Active Labour Market Programmes in Evidence-based Policy Making.' Public Administration and Development, 26 (4). pp. 329-337.
Johnston, Deborah and Mohiddin, A. (2006) 'HIV/AIDS mitigation strategies and the State in sub-Saharan Africa – the missing link?' Globalization and Health, 2 (1).
Sender, John and Johnston, Deborah (2004) 'Searching for a Weapon of Mass Production in Rural Africa: Unconvincing Arguments for Land Reform.' Journal of Agrarian Change, 4 (1-2). pp. 142-164.
Johnston , Deborah (1997) 'Migrant workers on Free State Farms: The relevance for South African labour policy.' South African Labour Bulletin, 21 (4).
Johnston, Deborah (1996) 'The state and development in Lesotho: an analysis of agricultural policy.' Journal of Southern African Studies, 22 (1). pp. 119-137.
Johnston , Deborah and Sender, John (1996) 'Some poor and invisible women: farm labourers in South Africa.' Development Southern Africa, 13 (1). pp. 3-16.
Monographs
Waage, Jeff and Dangour, Alan D. and Hawkesworth, Sophie and Johnston , Deborah and Lock, Karen and Poole, Nigel and Rushton, Jonathan and Uauy, Ricardo (2010) Understanding and Improving the Relationship between Agriculture and Health. Project Report. London: Foresight.
