Research and advisory work and training on poverty and poverty dynamics, chronic poverty and pro-poor growth for a range of international development organisations.CPAN Associate (Chronic Poverty Advisory Network (2009 to current). ODI Associate (2008 to current).Team Leader, qualitative component: Poverty Monitoring Initiative: Zimbabwe & Cambodia. Monitoring the impact of Covid on poverty, livelihoods and well-being. Covid Collective funded (2021, ongoing).Technical… Show more Research and advisory work and training on poverty and poverty dynamics, chronic poverty and pro-poor growth for a range of international development organisations.CPAN Associate (Chronic Poverty Advisory Network (2009 to current). ODI Associate (2008 to current).Team Leader, qualitative component: Poverty Monitoring Initiative: Zimbabwe & Cambodia. Monitoring the impact of Covid on poverty, livelihoods and well-being. Covid Collective funded (2021, ongoing).Technical Advisor: Poverty Monitoring Initiative: India. Monitoring the impact of Covid on poverty, livelihoods and well-being. Covid Collective funded (2021, ongoing)Team Leader, Zimbabwe. Leading a mixed methods study in Zimbabwe 'Understanding poverty dynamics in Zimbabwe in the context of Covid'. Analysing a synthetic panel of PICES household survey data, collect and analyse qualitative data and political economy analysis (2021-22) FCDO-Zimbabwe funded (ongoing).Team Leader, Rwanda. Understanding poverty trends and poverty dynamics in Rwanda: Qualitative Report (2019). Sustained Escapes, Rwanda country study. DFID funded. Outputs to inform DFID country strategy and national government policy processes. Team Leader, Cambodia. Sustained Escapes, Cambodia country study. January to July 2018. USAID funded Q2 study, bringing together qualitative research and panel data analysis to explore differential poverty outcomes (sustained escapes, transitory escapes and chronic poverty) and to understand what underpins these differential pathways. Outputs to inform USAID programming and national policy processes. Part of a 10 country study. Senior Advisor, Development Progress Stories. Overseas Development Institute (2013-2015). Poverty analyst: Study exploring the poverty impact of changing the graduation threshold in the Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) trade scheme (DFID) (May – September 2011).Gender analyst: Evaluation of Purchase for Progress (World Food Programme) (January – June 2011). Show less

Director of the Development Hub, a social enterprise providing research, advisory services and training on poverty dynamics, livelihood resilience and bottom up growth, intersectional feminism and decolonising development.

Advisory and policy engagement on poverty, chronic poverty, aid for trade and pro-poor growth. Head of Programme: Growth and Equity Programme (2007-2009). Theme Coordinator for the Chronic Poverty Research Centre's work on remote rural areas and the intergenerational transmission of poverty (2000-2010) (see www.chronicpoverty.org).

University lecturer in rural development, micro-economics and gender at Master's level. - Taught rural development with a micro-economics slant: including poverty and social analysis; livelihoods, shocks and coping; peasant economics and theory of the firm; intrahousehold relations and gender- Designed, launched and led the Masters in Poverty Reduction and Development Management (1998-2002) - Research in poverty dynamics (including chronic poverty and poverty in remote rural areas);… Show more University lecturer in rural development, micro-economics and gender at Master's level. - Taught rural development with a micro-economics slant: including poverty and social analysis; livelihoods, shocks and coping; peasant economics and theory of the firm; intrahousehold relations and gender- Designed, launched and led the Masters in Poverty Reduction and Development Management (1998-2002) - Research in poverty dynamics (including chronic poverty and poverty in remote rural areas); livelihoods, shocks and coping, microfinance and small enterprise and environmental economics.- Advisory work, particularly evaluations and impact assessments on poverty related interventions (including microfinance and small enterprise) Show less

Research Assistant to the Food Security Team, working with Simon Maxwell, Robert Chambers, Robin Mearns, Ian Scoones and others on developing and delivering a 3 month short course on food security to mid-career professionals from the global south.

Research Assistant to Prof Jonathan Kydd helping to research and draft a paper for an international conference on food security in the Former Soviet Union.