The following links provide access to the home pages of the research students that I currently supervise, as well as the topic areas of their theses:
- Andrea Burris – Neoliberal discourses of creativity and the division of labour between “East” and “West” in ICT production
- Caitlin Bentley – ICTs and knowledge sharing for development
- Fernanda Scur – A systems approach to ICT partnerships in Brazil
- Man Xu – Imbalanced regional development in China: disparities resulting from the Great Leap Forward
- Márton Kocsev – e-Capacity development – assessing, modelling and implementing ICT4D measures
- Paolo Brunello – ICT for education in Burundi
- Saeid Sadeghi – Mobile technologies and ethnic identity
- Ugo Vallauri – ICT4D and grassroots rural community development
For more information about undertaking doctoral research in the ICT4D Collective, please visit the postgraduate section of http://www.ictd.org.uk, where there is also detailed information on sources of funding for postgraduates interested in ICT4D.
Successfully completed PhDs under my supervision include:
- F. Bayouk (PhD, 1990) Schistosomiasis in south-west Saudi Arabia: distribution and epidemiology
- R. Black (PhD, 1990) Marginalization and agrarian change in the Serra do Alvão, northern Portugal
- B. Nash (PhD, 1997) Scandinavian settlement and society in eastern England in the 9th and 10th centuries
- E. West (PhD, 1998) The Danube River Basin Environmental Programme: an evaluation of Phase 1 using the policy networks approach (Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education; Joint Supervisor Mike Winter)
- Isabella Chaney (PhD, 1999) The grapevine for New Zealand Wine: a multidimensional analysis of information dissemination (Royal Holloway, School of Management; Joint Supervisor Charles Harvey)
- Ali Saeidi (PhD, 1999) Sociological obstacles to the development of a market economy in Iran (Royal Holloway, Department of History; Joint Supervisor Vanessa Martin)
- Diana Latsanovsky (PhD, 2003) Wetland management in Lithuania
- Stuart Johnson (PhD, 2004) Rural Estonia a decade after re-independence: post-Soviet transformations and the non-agricultural sector
- Barbara Silva (PhD, 2005) Palaeoenvironmental evidence of agricultural practices in Peru (Jont supervision with John Lowe and Nick Branch)
- Abbas Akhoundi (PhD, 2006) Globalization, the Nation-State and National Economic Policy Making: The Attitudes of Iran’s Elites
- Marije Geldof (PhD, 2010) Literacy and ICT: social constructions in the lives of low-literate youth in Ethiopia and Malawi
- David Hollow (PhD, 2010) Evaluating ICT for Education in Africa
- Charles Howie (PhD 2011) Cooperation and contestation: farmer-state relations in agricultural transformation, An Giang Province, Vietnam
- Uduak Okon (PhD 2011) – ICTs and sustainable community development in the Niger Delta Region, Nigeria
- Salma Abbasi (PhD 2012) – Women and ICT in Muslim Countries: Policies, Practices and Challenges
Successfully completed MPhils under my supervision include:
- David Crespo (MPhil 2011) – Mobile ‘phones and rural health workers in Peru: the potential of m-health in isolated rural areas of Peru (also published in book form by Lambert)
- Auchariya Yongphrayoon (MPhil 2010) Hedonic price models and GIS for mass land valuation in Thailand

Do you know of practical Regulatory Impact Assessment(s) in Africa in the ICT field?
Thanks for this.
Have to say that I am not aware of any really good academic ‘impact assessments’ of ICT regulation in the African context – although it depends a little on what you mean by regulation. There are quite a few studies of the introduction of regulatory mechanisms, and the ‘liberalisation’ of the market, but I guess that is not what you are after.
You might explore some ofhte work that infoDev has supported in the context of the toolkit it did with the ITU – http://www.ictregulationtoolkit.org/en/index.html
ReasearchICTAfrica.net may well also have some evidence – http://www.researchictafrica.net/home.php
There is also Alex Laverty’s piece last year at http://theafricanfile.com/ict/regulation-and-reform-of-ict-in-africa/
Hope this helps
Tim