- May 2005 Speakers -
14th May 2005 - Speaker bio's, lecture slides and notes
- Dr Shailaja Fennel is a University Lecturer in Development Studies attached to the Department of Land Economy, a Fellow of Jesus College, and an affiliated lecturer
in the Faculty of Law. She was awarded her degrees of BA, MA and
MPhil in Economics from the University of Delhi, and then went on to read
for her MPhil and PhD at the Faculty of Economics and Politics, University
of Cambridge. Her research work has examined the relationships between
output, population, technology, and the division of labour in China and
India, with specific focus on the role of the household and community in
determining issues of agricultural productivity and technology choice.
Her major research interests include agrarian transformation, specialisation
and trade; the dynamics of household decision making; technology choice;
comparative economic development; and economic history.
Slides -
ShailajaFennell-Perspectives.pdf(552 KB)
Notes - coming soon
- 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 "taking a break" to read for the MPhil in Engineering for Sustainable Development at Cambridge University.
Slides -
PritiParikh-India.pdf(1918 KB)
- 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. Recent publications.
Slides -
MartinWalsh-Context.pdf(602 KB)
Notes - coming soon
- Brodie Ramin, Melissa Vyvey, Gideon Agbley, Helen Ni and Martin Muller are members of the MPhil in Development Studies.
- Dr Tom Corsellis is co-founder of the University of cambridge shelterproject and founder and Chairman of Aidworld Humanitarian ICT. He trained as an architect and worked internationally for five 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 and York. He has also led or participated in research projects at the University of Cambridge funded by DFID, EPSRC, DTI, and several private trusts and foundations.
Slides -
TomCorsellis-Assessment.pdf(1466 KB)
Notes - coming soon
- Naomi Lovett is a Programme Officer for CAMFED International - a Cambridge-based organisation which supports girls’ education in Africa. After studying Philosophy at Cambridge, she worked in Tanzania for 4 years in the field of HIV/AIDS / adolescent sexual reproductive health, initially coordinating a school-based health education programme and later managing a baseline survey for Family Health International / Youthnet. Convinced of the power of girls’ education in the fight against AIDS, she returned to Cambridge to support CAMFED to establish a new programme in Tanzania.
- Debate - Thanks to Denitza Moreau, Melissa Kinnear and Peter Newt from ASF-UK and to Jaime Royo-Olid of ASF-International for travelling to attend this.