Politics, governance, and civil society in sub-Saharan Africa; non-governmental organisations; faith and development; history of development processes and interventions; issues in international health and non-state actors in health delivery.
Political economy and sociology of globalisation; global power structure and grand strategy; empire theory and US hegemony; politics and development of the Middle East and North Africa; sociology of religion; Islam and Islamic Fundamentalism; social change and social theory.
Political ecology, forest conservation, conservation history, governmentality, climate change mitigation and adaptation, Africa.
India, especially the Western Himalayas; environmental history, natural resource management, nomadic pastoralism and agrarian change
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Senior Fellow of SOAS
Africa; Horn of Africa; refugees and forced migration; post-conflict social integration; violence and conflict analysis; humanitarianism and humanitarian assistance; globalisation, transnationalism, diasporas and remittances; famine and food security; livelihoods in emergency contexts.
Political economy of labour migration, class and capitalism in the Middle East. With a focus on the the states of the Gulf Cooperation Council, Palestine, and the dynamics of regional accumulation.
Violence and conflict, governance, post colonial state building, Muslim societies, sexualities, (reproductive) health, migration, and community development/transformative education - all explored through a gendered lens. Central Asia, Latin America but currently focus mainly on West and East Africa.
NGOs and social movements, politics and development in Nepal and South Asia, global protest and change, alternatives to neoliberalism and imperialism.
East Africa, particularly Uganda and Sudan, West Africa; conflict and development; forced migration; refugees; humanitarian interventions
Political Economy; Emerging finance capitalism; Privatization; Alternative development; Banking, finance, and development; Mexico, Turkey, other emerging capitalisms; State-capital-labour relations; State theory; Internationalization.
Global history of development, export processing zones/special economic zones, histories of commodity chains, neoliberalism, international trading agreements, anthropology of development, economic anthropology, Indian Ocean (esp. Mauritius and Indonesia), Marxist anthropology, global systems analysis.
Trans-nationality with particular reference to migration; refugee regime; borders and NGOs.
East Asia, labour relations in China and Vietnam, trade union reform in China and Vietnam, labour and social movements in China, labour migration in China.
Political economy of development, labour markets and informalisation, agrarian change, urbanisation, privatisation, aid effectiveness, Africa, Tanzania.
Political economy of Latin America, social and peasant movements, alter-globalisation movements and social change, alternative development, agrarian issues, and bio-fuels and energy politics.
Populist politics in Latin America and East Asia. Analysis of populist discourse with post-structuralist methods.
Climate change, sanitation and water pollution
Islamic philosophy; Political Islam; Social movements
Citizenship, Intersectionality, Caste, Gender, India
I am passionate about issues concerning gender, violence and development and have worked in India with sex workers and ragpickers on issues of rights based advocacy, livelihoods and domestic violence.
Democratisation in Afghanistan and other conflict-affected states, with a particular focus on gender and democratic institutions (elections, political parties and the legislature). Recently this has included work on the impact of Afghanistan's reserved seats system for women, the way elections shape and are shaped by local political landscapes, the internal dynamics of Afghan national assembly, political party institutionalisation and women's role in parties over time.
Convenor of the Aid and Development unit on the MSc in Development Studies.
Aid policies and practices, role of foreign and indigenous civil society organisations in Africa, issues affecting informal sector workers. Doctoral research on trade unions and NGOs in Tanzania, published as Civil Society as a Conflictual Sphere in Post-liberalization Tanzania. Currently researching the influence of trade unions on labour practices in Sierra Leone and Tanzania and working on issues affecting informal sector workers in Ghana. Worked in the aid sector and on political economy issues in the Sudan and Bulgaria.
Fortifying or fragmenting the Myanmar state? The political economy of the opium trade in Shan State, 1988-2014
Border Studies; Migration Studies; Asylum Rights; Sovereignty and forms of State; International Law; Human Rights Law
Dr. Suhleria is a Teaching Fellow for both Development Studies and the Department of Politics and International Studies.
Agrarian political economy; sociology of economic relations; theories of development; neoliberalism; research methods; India
Political, Economic and Social History of Turkey and the Middle East with special reference to the Kurdish Question in Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria; Politics and Development Economics of the Countries of the Middle East; Social Change and Social Theory.
Refugees and forced migration with particular reference to Iraq and Syria, transnationalism, diaspora contributions to conflict transformation and peace-building, sociology of religion, and faith-based humanitarianism.
The Department Student Officer (DSO) is available to offer information and guidance to prospective students enquiring about departmental programmes of study, and to current students for issues such as class attendance, course work deadlines and submission, as well as mitigating circumstances and timetable queries. The DSO works closely with the department's student representatives and welfare departments across the School to provide specialised support to students in the department of Development Studies.
Academic Support Officer for Development Studies responsible for: visiting appointments, expense claims, programme & module amendments, web updates, timetabling and any other academic related matters
Fortifying or fragmenting the Myanmar state? The political economy of the opium trade in Shan State, 1988-2014
Political Economy of Development. Agrarian Change in Southern Africa. Violence, conflict and Development. Borderlands and state-building processes. Extractive industries and capitalist transitions.
Agrarian history; Late Antiquity and early Islam; historical materialism; and, contemporary India, with a special interest in issues like the critique of minimalist stereotypes of the ancient economy; Marx’s method in Capital; modes of production; the fate of the peasantry under capitalism; and, labour and capital in India’s economy.
Political economy of rural and agrarian change, Patterns of rural and agricultural mechanization, Fairer trade, Politics of global agricultural Science and Technology assessments, Rural development, Research methods. Mainly worked in Nepal, Bangladesh and India.
Populist politics in Latin America and East Asia. Analysis of populist discourse with post-structuralist methods.
Economist focussing on Mozambique, specifically: political economy of economic growth and accumulation, industrialization and public policy.
Professor of Sociology at Texas A & M University, currently working on the reinterpretation of the causes of differential rates of national economic growth between 1870 and 1950.
Political economy of aid systems in Africa; natural resources exploitation and management; regional and global integration.
Judy El-Bushra’s main area of specialisation is gender, conflict and peace, focusing geographically on the Horn of Africa and Central Africa (particularly Sudan, Somalia, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Eastern DRC). Her current research interest is in expanding understandings of gender in fragile contexts and of fragility in the light of gender: more specifically the impact of war on men and on constructions of masculinity; gender and statebuilding; gender in emergency response and resilience-building.
Politics of development; institutional theory; civil society and democratization; agrarian change; labour; processes of
poverty; and social policy.
Markets and capitalism; rural development; poverty and social welfare; South Asian political economy; field economics
Environmental scientist working on ecological economics and political ecology
Uganda and East Africa; land tenure in Africa; post-conflict transition; displacement and resettlement; agrarian political economy; development and youth in Africa; state formation
Political economy of education and development in sub-Saharan Africa; privatisation of education, secondary education, social mobilisation around schooling, textbook industry; politics of aid and public finance; South Africa, Tanzania.
Art and theatre in conflict and post conflict settings; psychosocial and humanitarian programming in emergencies, participatory methods, community engagement; political economy of violence and conflict, cultural genocide, resilience and survival, representations of violence, politics of memory. Thematic interests in youth, migration, borderlands, Great Lakes, Sudan, Caucasus and the Balkans. Works with printmaking, photography and performance.
Water and environmental governance, especially but not exclusively in China.
Currently Vice-President of the International Water Resources Association (IWRA) and has served as Editor-in-Chief of Water International since 2007.
Humanitarian crises/policies; foreign aid allocation; refugees, conflict and natural disaster crises; international cooperation; European Union Humanitarian Aid policy.
Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Manchester, UK
The relationships between inequality, growth, and development. A major focus of Stephanie's work explores the effect of gender equality on macroeconomic outcomes. She has more recently begun to examine the gender and race effects of contractionary monetary policy.
Young people’s experiences of and means of coping with violence in North and South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo
Economic security/insecurity, labour and work, cash transfers, basic income, social protection and the 'precaritat'
Political, Economic and Social History of Turkey and the Middle East with special reference to the Kurdish Question in Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria; Politics and Development Economics of the Countries of the Middle East; Social Change and Social Theory.
Macroeconomics and poverty reduction, classical political economy, and labour markets