Independent Researcher and Advisor

Welcome to my website. Its purpose is to introduce you to my research, advisory and film work.

As an urban social anthropologist and social policy specialist I have more than forty years working on the interrelationship between theory and practice around the three main urban development themes of gender, asset accumulation and violence and conflict.

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My Research, Advisory Work and Film

My current academic positions

  • Honorary Professor, Bartlett Development Planning Unit (DPU), University College London (since 2019)
  • Emeritus Professor, the University of Manchester (UoM) (since 2012)
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (2012)

Earlier positions have included

  • Professor of Urban Development; Director of Global Urban Research Centre, UoM (2007-2012)
  • Lead Social Development Specialist, World Bank (1990-2000),
  • Lecturer, London School of Economics (1986-1990)
  • Lecturer, DPU, UCL London (1978-1986).

My interrelated research themes:

Recent advisory appointments and capacity building includes:

  • Committee Member of the Chilean Milenio Social Science Initiative Program (2020 -)
  • Member of Advisory Board of GREAT (Gridding Equitable Urban Futures in Areas of Transition) (2020-)
  • Advisor to UK NGO Comic Relief’s £20 million DfID UK Four City Initiative in Urban Africa (2019-2020)
  • Advisor to World Bank Group TDD on ‘Planning Safe and Inclusive Cities’ (2019)
  • Senior Advisor to Canadian IDRC’s Safe and Inclusive Cities Research Programme (2014-17)
  • Appointed Member of the Swedish Research Council, Development Committee (2013-16)
  • Chair of the Board of Trustees of Children Change Colombia (2013-2018)
  • Research Advisor to Ford Foundation New York on Just Cities Strategy (2012-2016)
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