Professor of Development Politics, International Development Department, University of Birmingham & FCDO Senior Research Fellow (Conflict & Governance)
This blog is republished under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license. The original was published on Oxfam's From Poverty to Power blog, and the original post can be found here. It is part two of two, and the first part can be found here. In yesterday’s post, I looked at some of the social and … Continue reading On Covid-19 Social Science can save lives: where do we start?
Lockdown 'holiday' activity includes all sorts of fun activities - baking banana-chocolate chip muffins, taking our usual family walk and cleaning out my computer folders. The latter can be a bit like career archaeology, and I found this beauty buried deep in a folder. In January 2007, I organised a conference called 'Making Politics Practical: … Continue reading TWP blast from the past: Birmingham, 2007
Featured image courtesy of TNRC. Webinar plus two-part blog series for the Tackling Natural Resource Corruption project. https://vimeo.com/404692928 Blog 1: Targeting corruption in environmental crime and natural resource governance: How can Thinking & Working Politically help to unlock political will? Blog 2: How can I integrate Thinking & Working Politically into my day-to-day programming on natural resource … Continue reading Tackling corruption in environmental crime and natural resource governance: can Thinking & Working Politically help unlock the political will needed?
This was first published by the Colombia Center on Sustainable Investment as part of a series coming out of work with the Executive Session on the Politics of the Extractives Sector. The original post can be found here. Featured image taken by the author at a CSSI workshop. An experienced development policymaker once said … Continue reading Political will: What it is, why it matters for Extractives and how on earth do you find it?
Quick reads for short journeys (blogs/policy briefs/podcasts) Ali Breland, The bizarre and terrifying ‘deepfake’ video that helped bring an African nation to the brink I read a lot of stuff about corruption, crime and conflict (the 3Cs troika), but I have to admit that little I’ve read recently has freaked me out as much as … Continue reading What I’m reading this month: July 2019 edition
This blog is republished under a Creative Commons license. The original was published on Oxfam's From Poverty to Power. See the original post for lots of great comments! I am struck by how often people say ‘TWP/PDIA/adaptive management/PEA…whatever’. Kind of like when my great-aunt calls me by various relatives’ names first before getting mine right … Continue reading What we’re missing by not getting our TWP (Thinking & Working Politically) alphabet straight
In keeping with our new tradition, I did a 'Friday Thread' on some of the work I've been doing for DFID, beginning to think through what a research offer on SOC might look like. It's early days, with a lot more work to be done, and this thread shares some of this thinking. LOOK BOTH … Continue reading Bringing serious & organised crime into development research
Tube journeys (blogs/policy briefs/podcasts) Rim Turkmani, Devolution of power or decentralisation of power in Syria? This blog from the DFID-funded Conflict Research Programme looks at how fragmentation of the previously highly-centralised state in Syria has led to the rise of regional and local elites drawing legitimacy from ethno-sectarian narratives, the use of violence and control … Continue reading What I’m reading this month: June 2019 edition
Tube journeys (blogs/policy briefs/podcasts) Annie Kelly, British paedophiles target children in poor countries for online abuse This article looks at the NCA’s work investigating and prosecuting the estimated 80,000 UK nationals (just let that number sink in for a minute…) targeting children in poor and war-torn countries for cyber-assisted sexual abuse, including live streaming. Just … Continue reading What I’m reading this month: December 2018 edition
Originally posted on the DLP Opinions blog, with Elisa Lopez Lucia, Joanna Buckley and Neil McCulloch. Image: Work in the Niger Delta (Cristiano Zingale) ‘Thinking and Working Politically’ (TWP) has been gaining traction in development programming, given its premise that programming teams can maximise the possibility of real impact if they can get the ‘politics’ right. But … Continue reading Oil reform in Nigeria: The ups and downs of channel-hopping programme delivery
Professor Heather Marquette 