I am a Lecturer in International Development in the Social and Policy Sciences Department, University of Bath. My official staff profile can be accessed here
My research focuses on the ways in which NGOs and civil society organisations generate and maintain legitimacy, and on the political implications of NGOs' engagement in peacebuilding. I have also conducted research on liberal peacebuilding, third-party mediation, and conflict prevention. Prior to starting at Bath in 2013, I worked as a Research Fellow at the Governance and Social Development Resource Centre, based at the University of Birmingham. Before that, I completed a PhD at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), which looked at at national NGOs involved in peacebuilding in Sri Lanka. It examined how national non-governmental organisations (NGOs) established and maintained their position as legitimate social and political actors between 2006 and 2007, a transitional period during which Sri Lanka’s fragile ceasefire was unravelling. I worked in the Sri Lankan NGO sector as a project coordinator and monitoring advisor between 2003 and 2005. Between 2007 and 2010, I worked as a Senior Teaching Fellow in the Department of Development Studies at SOAS, teaching on the 'War to Peace Transitions' and 'Security' courses and convening a course entitled 'NGOs, Development and Change'. I have experience of working as a consultant and evaluator for a number of donor agencies (including DFID, AusAID, UNDP, NORAD and OECD). |
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