Caryn Peiffer is Associate Professor in International Public Policy in the School for Policy Studies. Caryn Joined the School in 2017 from the Department of International Development at the University of Birmingham where she was a research fellow at the Developmental Leadership Programme. Prior to that she was a research fellow at the University of Strathclyde, where she worked with Professor Richard Rose examining bribery patterns around the world. She holds a PhD in Political Science from Claremont Graduate University.

Caryn’s research examines the measurement and consequences of different forms of corruption, as well as the intended and unintended impacts of specific anticorruption efforts. She has conducted research in several countries including Zambia, Botswana, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Uganda, South Africa, Nigeria and Albania. She is a methodological pluralist and has conducted qualitative fieldwork, as well as mixed-methodological and experimental studies. She has expertise in the design of surveys that ask about organised crime and corruption. Of recent interest to her work is how to communicate to the public about polices meant to tackle ‘public bads’ like corruption or organised crime, without having unwanted and unintended impacts.

She regularly advises a range of policy actors, including national country governments, international organisations and civil society.