Group members
The International Development research group brings together researchers, from a range of disciplines across the Faculty of Social Sciences & Law, other faculties within the University and within the wider community, with expertise in topics connected to international development.
Group lead
Dr Adrian Flint, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
Research interests: the politics of development and North-South relations, in particular the interface between poverty, sustainable development, disease and political economy.
Dr Tigist Grieve, School of Education
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Group members
Aet Annist
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Dr Karen Bell, School for Policy Studies
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Dr Erlend Berg, School of Economics
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Prof Christopher Bertram, School of Arts
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Megan Blomfield
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Molly Rose Bond, School of Geographical Sciences
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Dr Joanna Burch-Brown, School of Arts
Research interests: issues of contested heritage and public memory of slavery and colonialism; practical ethics, including race and justice; environmental ethics; sustainable development; Kantian ethics.
Mo Chen
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Dr Ryerson Christie, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
Research interests: the application of critical security studies to the analysis of human security, peacebuilding, and natural disasters.
Prof Michael Crossley, School of Education
Research interests: theoretical and methodological scholarship on the future of comparative and international education; the dilemmas of international education policy transfer; research and evaluation capacity and international development co-operation; and educational development in small states.
Dr Brian Dangerfield, School of Economics, Finance and Management
Research interests: the application of system dynamics simulation models to policy-level issues in economics, business, health and public policy generally.
Dr Ruth Deakin Crick, School of Civil, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Research interests: infrastructure futures; dispositional learning analytics; sustainable futures; customer and community engagement.
Dr Adam Dixon, School of Geographical Sciences
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Prof Timothy Edmunds, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
Research interests: security sector reform, civil-military relations and capacity building.
Aksel Ersoy
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Dr Magnus Feldmann, School of Sociology, Politics and Internation Studies
Research interests: comparative and international politics.
Elizabeth Fortin
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Dr Sean Fox, School of Geographical Sciences
Research interests: the process of urbanisation, the political economy of development, contentious politics, and urban governance, particularly (but not exclusively) in Africa and Asia.
Dr Clair Gammage, University of Bristol Law School
Research interests: the relationship between trade and human rights, and the trade:development nexus.
Dr Geetanjali Gangoli, School for Policy Studies
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Prof Mhairi Gibson, School of Arts
Research interests: population and health issues in resource-limited communities.
Prof David Gordon, School for Policy Studies
Research interests: issues of poverty and social justice.
Dr Maija Halonen-Akatwijuka, School of Economics
Research interests: contract theory and organizational economics.
Prof Eric Herring, School of Sociology, Politics and Internationl Studies
Research interests: to promote Somali-led development through impartial facilitation, research, training and education; a conceptual framework on ‘organised persuasive communication.'
Jo Howard, School for Policy Studies
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Latif Ismail, School of Sociology, Politic and International Studies
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Dr Mark Jackson, School of Geographical Sciences
Research interests: colonial and postcolonial geographies; contemporary and classical social theory and philosophy; urbanism and built space; technology and materiality; political ecology; critical political economy.
Prof Patricia Kennett, School for Policy Studies
Research interests: comparative and international social and public policy; cities and social change; governance and the global political economy.
Erlangga Landiyanto, School for Policy Studies
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Dr Patricia Lucas, School for Policy Studies
Research interests: the reduction of inequalities in health and wellbeing in early childhood.
Tim Marshall
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Prof Robert Mayhew, School of Geographical Sciences
Research interests: the ways in which landscape was represented in English literature; the history of geography in early modern England.
Dr Angeline Mbogo Barrett, School of Education
Research interests: the problematic of improving teaching and learning in public primary and secondary education ion under resourced contexts.
Dr Naomi Millner, School of Geographical Sciences
Research interests: post-colonial, de-colonial and political ecology approaches to environmental politics; cultural politics of race, nature and social exclusion; food justice, agrarian social movements and food sovereignty; concepts of 'commons' and 'commoning'; migration, border politics and transnational forms of belonging; theories of politics and aesthetics; community education, radical education and pedagogies for social change.
Juan Carlos Mondragon Quintana, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
Research interests: the ways in which institutions and spatial dynamics support innovation in emerging-market multinational enterprises (EMNES), trying to reconcile international business studies with other altenative literatures, such as systems of innovation, global production networks and global innovation networks.
Prof Rachel Murray, University of Bristol Law School
Research interests: Human Rights, particularly national human rights commissions and African systems; Public International Law.
Dr Shailen Nandy, School for Policy Studies
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Joe Nelson, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
Research interests:the political economy of microfinance, investigating its neoliberal underpinnings as a reason for its lack of impact as a development intervention or a poverty allieviation tool.
Dr Hannah Parrott, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
Research interests: the ways in which eco-communities conceptualise (un)sustainability and analyses the role of permaculture in facilitating a reduction in unsustainable practices and behaviours by members of such communities.
Perada Phumessawatdi, School for Policy Studies
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Sue Porter
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Prof Chris Preist, School of Computer Science, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Engineering Mathematics
Research interests: the application of digital technology to engage communities around environmental and social sustainability; the environmental impact of digital technology; the integration of life cycle analysis and carbon footprinting techniques into broader systemic models of sustainability impact; agent-based simulation of socio-economic systems, particularly those with environmental implications; the role of computer technology within the wider socio-technical systems emerging to address climate change and other sustainability issues.
Dr Elina Steinerte, University of Bristol Law School
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Prof Elliot Stern, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
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Shawanda Stockfelt
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Prof Andrew Sturdy, University of Bristol Business School
Research interests: issues of power and identity in the production and use of management ideas, especially in relation to management consultancy and organisational change.
Dr David Sweeting, School for Policy Studies
Research interests: local and urban governance studies.
Prof Jonathan Temple, University of Bristol Business School
Research interests: growth and development, and foreign aid - current research focuses on structural transformation, the aggregate effects of foreign aid, and the empirical study of economic growth.
Prof Sally Thomas, School of Education
Research interests: different aspects of educational quality, which have examined a variety of factors, indicators and processes related to school and institutional effectiveness and improvement (both in UK and abroad).
Prof Leon Tikly, School of Education
Research interests: implementing education quality in low income countries; raising African Caribbean achievement; globalisation and skills for development in Rwanda and Tanzania; understanding the needs of mixed heritage pupils; globalisation and education; leadership and change in township and rural schools in South Africa.
Dr Karen Tucker, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
Research interests: the politics of knowledge in global governance and the use of new technologies to promote horizontal, participatory research - in particular, the connections and tensions between indigenous communities’ forms of knowledge and neoliberal rationalities, and the ways in which the marginalisation of indigenous and other subaltern knowledges can be countered.
Prof Guoxing Yu, School of Education
Research interests: language testing and assessment; applied linguistics (language teaching and acquisition); educational assessment: school effectiveness and educational quality in relation to language and literacy development, measurement of learning power, assessment policies.
Rosie Walters, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
Research interests: the way that girls and young women negotiate girl power discourses in international development - my focus is on girls' participation in the UN Foundation's 'Girl Up' scheme, which encourages girls in the Global North to raise money for girls' education in the Global South.
Dr Wenfei Winnie Wang, School of Geographical Sciences
Research interests: migration and mobility; population and urban geography; health geography; aging population; quantitative methods; China.
Prof Yongjin Zhang, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
Research interests: International Relations theory and Chinese history; politics; economic transformation; international relations.