Postgrads

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