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- Dr Martin Walsh is an anthropologist and independent development consultant with more than 20 years’ experience in applied research and programme & project design, management, implementation, and monitoring & evaluation in Africa. After completing a PhD based on fieldwork in south-west Tanzania he went to work on the Kenya coast, where his studies of women’s groups and their enterprises led to the development of an innovative business training programme. Since then he has worked as a consultant for a variety of international agencies and NGOs, specialising in participatory assessment & research, rural & urban livelihoods, social & institutional change, microfinance & microenterprise development, agricultural & livestock development, and community-based natural resource management. He has also held positions in the universities of Sussex and Greenwich, and is currently an Affiliated Lecturer in the Department of Social Anthropology in the University of Cambridge.
Slides - MartinWalsh-Context.pdf
- Dr Celia Duff is a Consultant in Public Health Medicine working for the Department of Health based in the Regional Office of Government in Cambridge. Celia's medical specialty covers the development and delivery of health services with a population focus (health protection, health improvement and health service quality). She has significant experience in international health care in conflict and post conflict reconstruction. In 1999 she went as the first medical officer to develop the UK arm of the humanitarian evacuation of Kosovo Albanians from Macedonia, in 2001 was seconded to central government to support the UK response to 9/11 and in 2003 spent two months in Southern Iraq immediately after the war working in the early phases of health service reconstruction. She is a nationally recognised figure in higher specialist training for public health with officer responsibilities for delivering the public health element of training in the new government initiative 'Modernising Medical Careers'. Celia is a Fellow of Clare College and Director of Studies for Clinical Medicine.
- Priti Parikh studied engineering in India, where her first degree was followed by a postgraduate diploma in urban and regional planning. She worked as a development engineer in India for some years, including slum improvement projects in the state capital of Madhya Pradesh, Bhopal, and as a volunteer engineer in the aftermath of the 2001 Gujerat earthquake. She later worked for UK-based multi-disciplinary consultancy Buro Happold and was winner of New Civil Engineer's "Outstanding Contribution" award, 2004. She is now chartered and recently completed the MPhil in Engineering for Sustainable Development at the Cambridge University Centre for Sustainable Development.
- Professor Andrew Lever graduated in Biochemistry and Medicine from the University of Wales. Following clinical training there and in London and Newcastle, he did research training in immunodeficiency and infectious diseases in London and Harvard, where his work focussed on HIV infection. He was appointed Senior Lecturer at St. George’s Hospital, London in 1989 and moved to Cambridge in 1991. He was appointed Reader in Infectious Diseases in 1998 and appointed to a Personal Chair in 2000. He is an Honorary Consultant in Medicine and Infectious Diseases and Head of the Infectious Diseases Unit at Addenbrooke’s Hospital. He runs an MRC-funded research group working on HIV and is currently involved in initiatives to establish links between the University, Addenbrooke’s Hospital and healthcare facilities in the developing world.
- Dr Tom Corsellis is co-founder of the Sheltercentre and founder and Chairman of Aidworld Humanitarian ICT. He trained as an architect and worked internationally for ten years on transitional settlement work responding to conflicts and natural disasters in Africa, Asia and Europe. His field consultancies have included work with UNHCR, DFID, CARE, Oxfam GB, MSF-F and ACT, and policy development consultancies and collaborations with UNHCR, DFID, ODI, the Sphere Project and Oxfam GB. He has undertaken training for RedR, Oxfam and lectured at the universities of Cambridge, Catalonia, Coventry, Oxford, Oxford Brookes, York and Fuktuaka.
- Dr. Katherine Swancutt is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Chinese Studies at the Faculty of Oriental Studies, Cambridge. She received three separate bachelor's degrees, in anthropology, Chinese and Russian at the University of Utah before doing her PhD in social anthropology under Caroline Humphrey at the University of Cambridge (1998-2003). For her doctorate, she did a comparative study of divination, fortune and witchcraft in Mongolia and China. In 2004-5 she was a Departmental Lecturer at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford, during which time she researched the 'states of mind' that Mongolian shamans make use of in trance, and links between Mongolian games and hierarchy. This year she will begin research on the Yi of southwest China, studying the efficacy of shamanic practice in relation to concepts of time.
- Jaime Royo Olid is the founder of ASF-Cambridge (2002). He has completed the BA and the diploma in Architecture, and is now studying the MPhil in Development Studies, while working as a research assistant in "Sustainable humane habitat in the development context" with the Cambridge University department of Architecture. Jaime has also studied the 'Specialisation course on International Cooperation for Development and Basic Habitat' (Escuela Tecnica Superior de Arcitecture, Madrid, 2005), and has development experience in a number of projects; Addressing Alang shipbreaking yard slums, 2004, Study of slums in Mumbai 2005, Post-tsunami construction in Tamil Nadu as a volunteer for 'Architecture & Development' 2005. In 2004 he worked as the coordinator of the ASF-International network, participating In UN-Habitat World Urban forum II (Barcelona 2005), Shelter Peer Review, UNDP (Geneva 2004) and facilitating the creation of ASF-London, ASF-Paris, ASF-Diepenbeek (Belgium) and ASF-ETSAM (Madrid).
- Sridhar Venkatapuram is currently PhD student in SPS working on the philosophy of public health as it relates to ideas about health, rights, and social justice. He has worked for a number of international development and human rights organizations focused especially on HIV/AIDS in developing countries.
- Dave Walker is a third Year chemical engineer at Caius College. He participated in a self-organised engineering expedition to Maharashtra, India in summer 2005. Engineering problems were investigated which were faced by a rural community. These problems have been taken home, so that final year engineering students can come up with sustainable solutions to the problems.
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