Short biography
I completed my PhD at UCL with Kathy Homewood in 1998, a post doc with Bill Adams at Cambridge and then a short lectureship at Oxford, before moving to Manchester (the Global Development Institute) in 2005. I was awarded a personal chair there in 2012. In 2015 I moved to the University of Sheffield as Director of the Sheffield Institute of International Development (now IGSD). I joined Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals in the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in 2022.
I much enjoy anthropological research which involves living with rural communities for one to two years. I´ve been fortunate to undertake three such periods in Tanzania in the course of my career. I also enjoy writing children´s books which are published by African Professional Education Network, in Dar es Salaam. I love walking and cycling and kite-surfing.
