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Research Students
Recently Completed PhDs

Students at the Postgraduate Graduation Ceremony, December 2014

Welcome! This page is a resource for the research student community at International Development (MRes, MPhil, and PhD). You will find useful information on the range of our research areas as well as biographical and contact information on all of us.

As you will see, we are a diverse group. The Department of International Development has attracted us from all parts of the world and from the gamut of social sciences.

As Europeans, South Asians, East Asians, Latin Americans, Africans, North Americans (and yes, even some British students), we have been drawn to the LSE. As economists, anthropologists, political scientists, historians, geographers, lawyers (and even a classicist), we somehow manage not only to get along but also to thrive in the department.

Enjoy our website and do feel free to contact us. We would like to hear from you. Better still, come and join us at the world's best place for the study of social science and one of the most stimulating and dynamic departments for the study of development.

Research Students

Allison Benson-Hernandez

Supervisor: Professor Jean-Paul Faguet

Reseach Interests: Rural Development; Social Capital; Institutions; Conflict

Contact: A.L.Benson-Hernandez@lse.ac.uk

Kara Blackmore

Supervisor: Professor Tim Allen

Contact: K.A.Blackmore@lse.ac.uk

Brian Dornan

Supervisor: Professor James Putzel

Contact: B.J.Dornan@lse.ac.uk

Lucy Dubochet

Supervisor: Professor Stuart Corbridge; Dr Tania Burchardt

Contact: L.Dubochet@lse.ac.uk

Max Gallien

Supervisor: Dr Kate Meagher

Research interests: Informal economies; Illegal trade; Politics and the political economy of the Middle East and North Africa; Political Islam.

Contact: M.Gallien@lse.ac.uk

Thomas Hohne-Sparborth, PhD Candidate, LSE

Thomas Höhne-Sparborth

Supervisor: Dr Elliott Green

Contact: T.Hohne-Sparborth@lse.ac.uk

Sheila Kamunyori

Supervisor: Dr Kate Meagher

Research interests: Planning in informal contexts; Slum upgrading; Social inclusion in urban areas; Property rights and tenure security.

Contact: S.W.Kamunyori@lse.ac.uk

Vincent Kienzler

Supervisor: Professor David Lewis

Research interests: Implementation of performance-based management in the public sector

Contact: V.G.Kienzler@lse.ac.uk

Thomas Kirk

Supervisor: Professor Mary Kaldor

Contact: T.Kirk@lse.ac.uk

Maria del Pilar Lopez-Uribe

Supervisor: Professor Jean-Paul Faguet, Professor Tim Besley

Research interests: Political Economy; Microeconomics; Conflict; Institutional Economy

Contact: M.D.Lopez-Uribe@lse.ac.uk

Guoer Liu

Supervisor: Dr Mayling Birney; Professor Jude Howell

Research interests: Governance; political economy

Contact: G.Liu5@lse.ac.uk

Eduardo Mello

Supervisor: Dr Lloyd Gruber

Research interests: Comparative study of distributive institutions, social policy, the political consequences of inequality.

Contact: E.J.Mello@lse.ac.uk

Simona Montanari

Supervisor: Professor James Putzel

Contact: S.Montanari@lse.ac.uk

Christopher Paek

Supervisor: Dr Kate Meagher

Research interests: Micro-insurance; financial inclusion; inclusive markets; South Africa.

Contact: C.Paek@lse.ac.uk

Camille Pellerin

Supervisor: Professor James Putzel

Contact: C.Pellerin@lse.ac.uk

Naomi Pendle

Supervisor: Professor Tim Allen

Contact: N.R.Pendle@lse.ac.uk

Praveen Priyadarshi

Supervisor: Professor James Putzel

Research interests: Development studies, urban studies, cross-cultural studies, Indian studies, city governance

Contact: P.Priyadarshi@lse.ac.uk

Alessandra Radicati

Supervisor: Dr Rajesh Venugopal

Research interests: Infrastructure, modernity, space and place, globalization, social theory

Contact: A.Radicati@lse.ac.uk

Portia Roelofs

Supervisor: Dr Kate Meagher

Research Interests: Nigerian Politics; Governance and Accountability; African Politics; Comparative Political Theory; Corruption; Gender

DTC Prizewinner at the 2015 Research Festival [read more].

Contact: P.Roelofs@lse.ac.uk

Nelson A Ruiz-Guarin

Supervisor: Professor Jean-Paul Faguet, Dr Sandra Sequeira, Dr Dominik Hangartner

Research interests: Political Economy of Development; Quasi-experimental designs in political science; Large-N Comparative politics; Designs of political Institutional and Electoral Systems

Contact: N.A.Ruiz-Guarin@lse.ac.uk

Emrys Schoemaker

Supervisor: Dr. Shirin Madon

Contact: E.Schoemaker@lse.ac.uk

Elizabeth Storer

Supervisor: Professor Tim Allen

Contact: E.Storer@lse.ac.uk

Rebecca Sutton

Supervisor: Professor Tim Allen, Dr Devika Hovell

Contact: R.A.Sutton@lse.ac.uk

Samuel Vincent

Supervisors: Professor Mary Kaldor; Professor David Keen

Contact: S.Vincent@lse.ac.uk

Florian Weigand

Supervisor: Professor Mary Kaldor

Research interests: Human security; Conflicts and new wars; Political order; Statehood; Legitimacy; Security provision; Policing peace / state-building; Security sector reform; Afghanistan; Pakistan.

Contact: F.Weigand@lse.ac.uk

Recently Completed PhDs

Anila Channa

Supervisor: Professor Jean-Paul Faguet

Research interests: Political economy of education provision, educational stratification, education policy and reforms particularly decentralization and school-based management; kinship groups and ethnic fractionalization; social capital; South Asia, particularly Pakistan

Contact: A.A.Channa@lse.ac.uk

Benjamin Chemouni

Supervisor: Professor James Putzel

Research interests: The variation of state effectiveness between Burundi and Rwanda

Media appearances include Al Jazeera English and BBC World News [find out more].

Contact: B.H.Chemouni@lse.ac.uk

Regina Enjuto-Martinez

Supervisor: Professor Jude Howell

Contact: R.Enjuto-Martinez@lse.ac.uk

Yi Fan

Thesis: Essays on inequality and intergenerational mobility in China.

Supervisor: Dr Diana Weinhold, Dr Guy Michaels, Professor Robin Burgess

Research interests: Development economics; Labour economics; Public Policy; Economic history; Political economy.

Contact: Y.Fan@lse.ac.uk

Arabella Fraser

Supervisor: Professor Tim Forsyth

Contact: A.F.Fraser@lse.ac.uk

Fadi Hassan

Research interests: Development macroeconomics

Contact: F.Hassan@lse.ac.uk

Ivor Jones

Supervisor: Professor Ken Shadlen

Research interests: The politics of government policy toward software licensing in Brazil and Argentina

Gauthier Marchais

Supervisor: Dr Elliott Green, Dr Kate Meagher

Research interests: Political economy of armed conflict; Armed mobilization; Social movement theory; Contentious politics; Anthropology of armed conflict

Contact: G.Marchais@lse.ac.uk

Laura Munro

Supervisor: Professor Jean-Paul Faguet

Research interests: Development economics, risk-sharing and savings mechanisms, international trade

Contact: L.Munro@lse.ac.uk

Karl Muth

Supervisor: Professor Robert Wade

Media: 'Telling New Stories' [TEDx]; 'Conversations, Global Policy' [LSE].

Contact: K.Muth@lse.ac.uk

Anokhi Parikh

Thesis: The private city: property, planning and protest in the making of Lavasa New Town

Supervisor: Professor Stuart Corbridge

Contact: A.Parikh2@lse.ac.uk

Georgina Pearson

Supervisor: Professor Tim Allen

Research interests: Global health; neglected tropical diseases; medical anthropology; mixed methods.

Teaching: DV418 - African Development

Contact: G.F.Pearson@lse.ac.uk

Caroline Pöschl

Supervisor: Professor Jean-Paul Faguet

Research interests: Taxation and accountability

Co-editor: Is Decentralisation Good for Development? (Oxford, 2015)

Contact: C.Poeschl@lse.ac.uk

Alyson Smith

Thesis: Post-conflict in Rwanda: uncovering hidden factors in the gender policy context.

Supervisor: Professor Jo Beall

Research interests: Post-conflict reconstructions (with particular attention to Rwanda, long-term outcomes of reconstructions, gender policies.

Contact: A.Smith6@lse.ac.uk

Alaa Tartir

Supervisor: Professor Mary Kaldor, Dr Denisa Kostovicova

Research interests: Palestinian-Israeli Conflict; Political Economy of International Development and Foreign Aid; State-Building and Governance in Conflict-Affected Areas, and Public Policy Analysis.

Profile pages: Author at Al-Shabaka / LinkedIn.

Contact: A.Tartir@lse.ac.uk / alaa@al-shabaka.org