Lord Aikins Adusei
An Island of Peace in an ocean of turbulence: Understanding the sources of Ghana’s stability and limited economic progress
Department of Development Studies
PhD Students in the Department of Development Studies
Heba Ali
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Prince Asafu-Adjaye
Trade Union Responses to Neoliberalism in Ghana
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Ponsiano Bimeny
Constructions of the State, Violence and Political Settlement in South Sudan
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Jacob Berah
The Role of UN Special Political Missions in Conflict
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Femi Bolaji
How Does Diaspora Finance Shape Infrastructure Development in Nigeria?
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Kira Brenner
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Chris Büscher
Water and development in a variegated capitalism. Dutch water aid & trade development reproducing and transforming water access in Mozambique
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Weiwei Chen
The Dynamics of Chinese Private OFDI in Ethiopia: A Comparison of Light Manufacturing Industry and Construction Materials Industry
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Jean-Baptiste Damestoy
Governance capabilities, industrialisation and the state: the case of the cotton and textile sectors in Ethiopia
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Sila Demirors
Financialisation of the housing sector and urban transformation in Istanbul and Sao Paulo
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Francesco Formichella
The Value of the Global Value Chains: Fragmentation of Production, Vertically-Specialized Industrialization, and Uneven Capitalist Development (working title)
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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
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Muhtar Habibi
Agrarian Capitalism in Neoliberal Indonesia: Class, Production and Reproduction
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Philip Hadley
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Yasmine Hafez
Lakeview: An Alternative History of Nile Basin Water Politics
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Lamya (Sharmeen) Hussain
Dunam after Dunam: Transitions in Farming across the Jordan Valley
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Charlotte Hübner
“The Role of the Oil & Gas Sector in Late Industrialisation: Lessons from Malaysia” (Working Title)
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Cate Inverso
From War to Peace as Conflict goes on: Reinventing the state or ignoring it? Assessing the activities of armed groups and informal cross border trade networks in the borderlands between DRC, Uganda and South Sudan (working title)
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Sarajuddin Isar
Taxation and state-building in Afghanistan, a political economy framework
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Karen Schouw Iversen
Humanitarian Activist Citizens: Desplazado Protests and State Humanitarianism in Bogotá, Colombia
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Safa Joudeh
Economic zones as spatial strategy in Egypt and Tunisia (working title)
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Matt Juden
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Hisae Kato
Sociology of work in conflict-affected communities: Labour, gender and violence in El-Rahad, Sudan
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Kaweh Kerami
Democratisation in the midst of war: Elections and Electoral politics in Afghanistan
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Kirstie Kwarteng
The Transnational Practices of Second Generation Ghanaians: A Comparative Study (Working Title)
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Iris Lim
Experiencing the Digital Governance Immigration: a Qualitative Comparison of London and Seoul
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Claire Marcel
What is the relationship between immigration controls, labour market structures and experiences of precarity in different spheres of the lives of migrant workers in the cleaning and agricultural sectors in the UK? (working title)
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Shona Macleod
Talibés who beg in urban Senegal: how does global child rights discourse influence policy and practice?
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Manish Maskara
Identity of Bihari migrant labour in India's cities
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Tomaz M. Fares
The Chinese Agribusiness in the Global Soybean Commodity Chain
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Roshni Menon
Land-pooling for the ‘smart city’ of Amaravati, Andhra Pradesh: Inclusive development or land dispossession in a different guise?
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Cristina Mosneaga
Transition from informality to more formality of small and medium enterprises in Lagos, Nigeria
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Aruna Pandey
Institutional Models to Resolve Conflicts over Natural Resource Governance: Role of Community Enterprises and Solidarity Economy
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Hashim Rashid
The Agrarian Question in West Punjab since 1885: The Politics of the Formation of a New Peasantry
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Alexander Ray
Rethinking the Local–international Dichotomy in Relation to Refugee Protection and Assistance: The Politics of Practice in Managing South Sudanese Displacement (working title)
Taylor Daniel Rockhill
Fatemeh Sajjadi
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Nina Salsotto Cassina
Documenting resistance movements in the DRC: sites, forms and explanations (working title)
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Christian Sowa
The Accommodation of Migrants in Berlin: Exploring the City and Urban Transformations (Working Title)
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Caitlin Sturridge
How can changing rural-urban livelihoods build households’ capacity to adapt to growing resource scarcity? A political ecology of mobility and translocality in Laikipia, Kenya (working title).
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Misha Velthuis
Selling modernity - An ethnography of the everyday practice of supermarket chains in Mumbai
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Fernandes Wanda
Capitalist Transformation in Transition: Exploring business political elite linkage in post-war Angola (working title)
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Chris Weeks
Human trafficking in the wake of natural disaster: the case of Typhoon Haiyan
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Jessica Whelligan
Questioning BRTs: A win-win solution to public transport problems in developing countries? (ESRC-ITF collaborative studentship)
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Benjamin Whiston
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Aled Williams
Shaping Room for Manoeuvre: Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation as a Forest Policy Choice in Indonesia (working title)
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Dilys K. Winterkorn
The Rise and Phenomena of African Philanthropy (working title)
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Khadija Yakubu
GOVERNANCE AND SECURITY IN AFRICAN CITIES: Structures and Practices in Northern Nigeria for Sustainable Development; A Case Study of Kaduna Metropolis.
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Celal Özkızan
Neoliberalism in a Small Country: Social Structures, Property Ownership and Class Structure in Northern Cyprus
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