Department of Development Studies

PhD Students in the Department of Development Studies

Carolina Alves

Stabilisation or financialisation? Examining the dynamics of the Brazilian public debt

Email: carolina_alves@soas.ac.uk

Prince Asafu-Adjaye

Trade Union Responses to Neoliberalism in Ghana

Email: 645246@soas.ac.uk

Giulia Baldinelli

Indigenous peoples' migration and agrobiodiversity conservation: exploring connections in the Bolivian Altiplano Norte (provisional title)

Email: gb29@soas.ac.uk

Lovleen Bhullar

Impact Analysis of Judicial Directives on Water Pollution in India: Relevance for Realization of the Human Rights to Water & Sanitation

Email: lb53@soas.ac.uk

Lea Bou Khater

Labour Relations in Lebanon: Decline and Transformation of the Workers’ Movement

Email: Lea_Bou_Khater@soas.ac.uk

Chris Büscher

Water and development in a variegated capitalism. Dutch water aid & trade development reproducing and transforming water access in Mozambique

Email: 623572@soas.ac.uk

Francy Carranza-Franco

Building Citizens, Building Security: Demobilisation, Disarmament and Reintegration process in Colombia from 2002-2010

Email: 235769@soas.ac.uk

Weiwei Chen

(Working title): The Dynamics of Chinese Private Outward Foreign Direct Investment in Ethiopia: A Comparison of Light Manufacturing Industry and Construction Material Industry

Email: 583646@soas.ac.uk

Jean-Baptiste Damestoy

Governance capabilities, industrialisation and the state: the case of the cotton and textile sectors in Ethiopia

Email: 572154@soas.ac.uk

Sila Demirors

Financialisation of the housing sector and urban transformation in Istanbul and Sao Paulo

Email: sd39@soas.ac.uk

Dariusz Dziewanski

Institutionalized violence? Examining the role of informal institutions in armed violence in South Africa

Email: ddziewan@yahoo.ca

Sai Englert

The Defeat of Hebrew Labour: Neoliberalism, the Histadrut, and the labour movement in Israel

Email: s_englert@soas.ac.uk, se15@soas.ac.uk

Ali Fathollah-Nejad

A Critical Geopolitics of Iran in an Emerging New World Order (preliminary)

Email: afn@soas.ac.uk

Diana Felix Da Costa

Working title: The politics of Murle identity, experiences of violence and of the State in Boma, South Sudan.

Email: df_costa@soas.ac.uk

Francesco Formichella

The Value of the Global Value Chains: Fragmentation of Production, Vertically-Specialized Industrialization, and Uneven Capitalist Development (working title)

Email: ff7@soas.ac.uk

Daniel Fuchs

Hegemony and Labour Politics in the People's Republic of China. Labour conflicts and hegemonic state strategies in the context of industrial relocation to Western China

Email: df20@soas.ac.uk

Manpreet Kaur Gill

Higher Education, Globalisation, and Internationalisation: A Study of Contemporary Shifts in Higher Education in Punjab, India

Email: 535498@soas.ac.uk

Sruthi Herbert

Citizenship at the intersections: Caste, Gender, and Class in India

Email: sh120@soas.ac.uk

Sibylle Herzig van Wees

The Role of Faith Based Health Providers in context of Health Reforms in post-1990 Cameroon

Email:

Mohammad Jahirul Hoque

Cultural, Political and Economic Mechanisms in the Concurrent Processes of Environmental Degradation and Decline of Indigenous Peoples in Bangladesh (working title)

Email: 222058@soas.ac.uk

Lamya (Sharmeen) Hussain

Dunam after Dunam: Transitions in Farming across the Jordan Valley

Email: 565410@soas.ac.uk

Charlotte Hübner

The Political Economy of Oil and Gas Linkages in Late Industrialisers: The Case of Malaysia (working title)

Email: 569089@soas.ac.uk

Sarajuddin Isar

Taxation and state-building in Afghanistan, a political economy framework

Email: 270469@soas.ac.uk

Zulkarin Jahangir

'Complexity' through mobile phone led 'networking'; exploring financial benefits of rural residents in Bangladesh

Email: Z_jahangir@soas.ac.uk

Safa Joudeh

Economic zones as spatial strategy in Egypt and Tunisia (working title)

Email: 644981@soas.ac.uk

Neha Kagal

Broadly my thesis is looking at the impact of unionization of informal sector women workers in India on bargaining relations within the home, with a specific focus on masculinity.

Email: nk40@soas.ac.uk

Nina Kaysser

(working title): Economic growth and Hindu-Muslim violence

Email: nk36@soas.ac.uk

Amrita Lamba

Interrogating Inclusive Natural Resources Governance: Comparing Brazil and South Africa

Email: a_lamba@soas.ac.uk

Lorena Lombardozzi

Cash crops, commercialization and nutrition in Uzbekistan: Is cotton in competition with quality food? (working title)

Email: ll27@soas.ac.uk

Shona Macleod

Talibés who beg in urban Senegal: how does global child rights discourse influence policy and practice?

Email: shona_macleod@soas.ac.uk

Daniel Marwecki

The German-Israeli Alliance and the Palestine Question. An Examination from the Postwar Era to the Present

Email: dm47@soas.ac.uk

Musa Mckee

‘Just Add Water’ - The Alchemy of Authoritarian Rule in Large-Scale Agricultural and Residential Developments in Egyptian Deserts during the Mubarak Era. (working title)

Email: musa_mckee@soas.ac.uk

The European and national policies on migration and asylum and their impact on the physiognomy of the port of entries and on the migration patterns in the Greek-Turkish border in the last twenty years. (Working title)

Email: mm153@soas.ac.uk

Glennie Moore

Email: gm41@soas.ac.uk

Thomas Muddimer

Working for Smallholders: Agricultural Workers, Labour Markets and Poverty in Southern Ghana.

Email: t_muddimer@soas.ac.uk

Nithya Natarajan

Globally-Directed and Locally-Experienced: the Impact of Global Health Governance upon Tobacco Farmers in Tamil Nadu (working title)

Email: n_natarajan@soas.ac.uk

Ana Oprisan

The Roma in Turkey. From Survival Mechanisms to Development Strategies

Email: 429413@soas.ac.uk

Aruna Pandey

Institutional Models to Resolve Conflicts over Natural Resource Governance: Role of Community Enterprises and Solidarity Economy

Email: ap72@soas.ac.uk

Nayanka Paquete Perdigao

(Working title) Perspectives on the failed State paradigm, Guinea-Bissau: A failed state or a state in the making?

Email: 177214@soas.ac.uk

Keston K. Perry

Coalitions, capacity and capitalist development: the political dynamics and governance of technological change with specific reference to Trinidad and Tobago

Email: kk_perry@soas.ac.uk

Benjamin Petrini

The Political Economy of Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) in Colombia: A Micro-Level Analysis of War-to-Peace Transition

Email: b_petrini@soas.ac.uk

Nicholas Pope

Email: 547889@soas.ac.uk

Alexander Ray

Rethinking the local–international dichotomy in relation to forced migration aid and governance: The politics of practice in managing South Sudanese displacement (working title)

Email: alexander_ray@soas.ac.uk

Bilge Sahin

Bringing Justice to the People: Developing Access to Justice to Fight Conflict-related Sexual Violence Crimes and Challenging Gender Performance in North-Kivu, the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Email: bs42@soas.ac.uk

Fatemeh Sajjadi

Email: 210069@soas.ac.uk

Mariyam Shiuna

Working Title: Urban violence and disillusionment with democracy in the Maldives.

Email: m_shiuna@soas.ac.uk

Farwa Sial

The internationalization of 'The Developmental State': The role of Development Aid and Capital Flows

Email: fs14@soas.ac.uk

Shreya Sinha

Agrarian Accumulation in Liberalised India: A Study of Capitalist Farmers in Punjab

Email: ss162@soas.ac.uk

Magdalena Suerbaum

Mosaics of masculinity - Gendering the experience of male Syrian refugees in Egypt

Email: ms152@soas.ac.uk

Jo Tomkinson

National policymaking and the problem of policy space: A review of economic development strategies in Ethiopia and Vietnam (working title)

Email: j_tomkinson@soas.ac.uk

Bereket Tsegay

Green Economy for Climate Mitigation and Poverty Reduction in Sub-Saharan Africa: Exploring the Role of Carbon Finance in Ethiopia

Email: bt8@soas.ac.uk

Misha Velthuis

Selling modernity - An ethnography of the everyday practice of supermarket chains in Mumbai

Email: m_velthuis@soas.ac.uk

David Wearing

Britain's relationship with the states of the Gulf Cooperation Council in the post-Cold War era

Email: david_wearing@soas.ac.uk

Chris Weeks

Human trafficking in the wake of natural disaster: the case of Typhoon Haiyan

Email: 615683@soas.ac.uk

Benjamin Whiston

Email: 135678@soas.ac.uk

Aled Williams

Shaping Room for Manoeuvre: Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation as a Forest Policy Choice in Indonesia (working title)

Email: 602820@soas.ac.uk

Shuwan Zhang

Labour disputes of young generation migrant workers in China

Email: shuwan_zhang@soas.ac.uk

Mirko van Pampus

Radical alternatives to neoliberal democracy: the case of Turkey and Brazil

Email: 531120@soas.ac.uk