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Paola Velasco-Herrejon is a PhD candidate at the Centre of Development Studies, University of Cambridge. Her research focuses on factors affecting renewable energy projects acceptance in the Global South.
She started her career as a fundraising officer at Fair Trade Mexico to then support indigenous women’s led businesses at the Mexico Women’s ministry. Paola then worked as Community Development Coordinator at Grupo Mexico, to launch a CSR strategy for their wind energy development in Oaxaca. In her most recent role, she worked for the United Nations Development Programme evaluating public programmes carried out by Mexico’s Commission for the Development of Indigenous People.
She is currently Teaching Assistant of the paper Business, Government and Technology in Emerging Markets provided for students from the MPhils in Technology and Policy, and Engineering for Sustainable Development at the Cambridge Judge Business School. She also supervises undergraduate students taking the Sociology Part 3 module Control and Resistance in Digital Societies, and is a tutor of sustainability and economics subjects in summer academic programs held at the University of Cambridge.
Paola earned her Gender and Development MA as a CONACYT scholar at the Institute of Development Studies based at the University of Sussex.
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Sophie is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Sydney’s School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry and the Charles Perkins Centre. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Oriental Studies (First Class) and a Master of Science in Social Anthropology from The University of Oxford. Sophie’s PhD at Macquarie University was funded by an International Endeavour Scholarship and received a Vice-Chancellor’s Commendation in 2019. Sophie’s research explores the intersections of capitalism, ecology, and indigeneity in Indonesia, with a specific focus on changing interspecies relations in the context of deforestation and agribusiness development. Her current research deploys inter-disciplinary methods to explore the nutritional and cultural impacts of agribusiness on indigenous food-based socialities, identities, and ecologies.
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Research on industrial policy, extractives, energy transitions and economic diversification strategies in resource-dependent countries.
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PhD in Political Sciences
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Lecturer and coordinator for paper 340 “Gender and development”, Centre of Development Studies, university of Cambridge.
Biography:
Her recent research and professional responsibilities have focused on International development, politics of governance and gender relations. She is currently working for the World Bank as a gender consultant for the Pakistan Trade and Investment policy program. Prior to that she worked as an evaluation consultant for the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Rome, Italy. She also worked as a gender consultant for the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), in Rome, Italy. The work focused on evaluation of the development initiatives of these organizations with a focus on gender, poverty, institutional efficiency and economic growth. Prior to her PhD she worked as urban economist for government of Punjab, in Pakistan. She has also worked as a research associate for the Anti-money laundering project, for the World Bank.
Research Interests
Maryam is the paper coordinator for Paper 340, “Gender and Development”, part of the MPhil in Development Studies. Her current research focuses on the gender and trade interface, with a special focus on Pakistan. Maryam is also involved in research that examines the performance of performance standards and their correlation to bureaucratic efficiency. Her previous research in the Centre of Development Studies investigated the lack of good governance in developing countries, by examining the inability of the bureaucrat to ensure development which remained correlated to erroneous performance assessment and political alignment. Her recent academic and professional research interests have focused on good governance, institutional efficiency, civil service performance, performance measurement, gender empowerment and poverty reduction.
Teaching
Maryam lectures in the Centre of development studies on Gender and development issues and on the “Mughals in the Pre-modern India”. Her lectures in south Asian studies focus on the political economy of policy design and implementation. She has also worked as a Lecturer in Development Economics in the Lahore School of Economics for MSc and BSc students. She was the lecturer in Development Economics in Cambridge tradition program, 2012.
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I am an Assistant Professor in International Relations at Durham University. My research interests are in international relations theory, global history, international institutions, critical geography, historical sociology and environmental politics. My current work approaches environmental cooperation from a historical perspective, by analysing how and why the first international organizations were established in the 19th century to manage a contested transboundary issue—the international river. I focus on discourses of civilization, control and rationality in the establishment of these early IOs. I am particularly interested in meaning creation as a historical process and how social meanings attached to physical geographies impact international cooperation and conflict.
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Sirin Sung is Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at the Queen’s University Belfast, UK. Her main research interests include gender and social policy, work-life balance policies, childcare workforce and gender and benefits in both the UK and East Asian countries. She won the Leverhulme Study Abroad Research Fellowship in 2010 to conduct research on work-family balance issues in the US and UK. Her recent publications include an edited volume Gender and Welfare State in East Asia: Confucianism or Gender Equality? (2014), Palgrave (With Gillian Pascall), ‘Dimensions of Financial Autonomy in Low-Moderate-income Couples from a Gender Perspective and Implications for Welfare Reform in the UK’ (With Fran Bennett), in Journal of Social Policy (2013), ‘Gender, Work and Care in Policy and Practice’, in Critical Social Policy (2018) and 'Gendered families: States and Societies in Transition' (With Lisa Smyth), in Contemporary Social Sciences (2022).
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M.Phil. in Economics, Studies Economics (Public Policy and Development; research-based master’s program with a focus on quantitative policy analysis, empirical policy design and evaluation) at Paris School of Economics, Paris, France. Have worked in areas like development, sustainability, gender and environment. Research Interest: Inclusive Development, Environment.
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Dr Baron is an Associate Professor in the School of Government and International Relations and Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Jewish Culture, Society and Politics at Durham University. His research explores different ways that we experience international politics in our everyday lives. To date, he has written on post-truth politics, the Jewish Diaspora's relationship with Israel, and the international cultural politics of Israeli cuisine. In addition, he has written on violence, the ethics of war, identity and security, and International Relations theory. He has held visiting posts at the London School of Economics, the University of British Columbia, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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Professor Anoush Ehteshami is Professor of International Relations in the School of Government and International Affairs, Durham University. He is the Nasser al-Mohammad al-Sabah Chair in International Relations and Director of the HH Sheikh Nasser al-Mohammad al-Sabah Programme in International Relations, Regional Politics and Security. He is, further, Director of the Institute for Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies (IMEIS) at Durham, one of the oldest and noted centres of excellence in Middle Eastern studies in Europe. He acts as Co-director (2016-2021) of the £3.9 million AHRC-funded Open Worlds Initiative entitled Cross-Language Dynamics: Reshaping Community. Previously (2006-2016), he acted as Joint Director of the nationally (RCUK)-funded Durham-Edinburgh-Manchester Universities’ research and training Centre for the Advanced Study of the Arab World (CASAW).
He was Durham University’s first Dean of Internationalization, 2009-2011, and was the founding Head of the School of Government and International Affairs (2004-9). He has been a Fellow of the World Economic Forum, and served as a member of the WEF’s foremost body, the Global Agenda Councils, 2010-12, focusing on energy. He was Vice-President and Chair of Council of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) 2000-2003. He is Editor of two major book series on the Middle East and the wider Muslim world, and is member of Editorial Board of seven international journals.