Members
We have more than 100 members with expertise and research interests spanning multiple disciplines and geographic regions.
Find members and explore their work.
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Research interests:
- South Asia
- Sri Lanka
- Intimate relations
- Homemaking
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Research interests:
- Urban development
- Environmental and social sustainability
- Housing
- Informality
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Research interests:
- Health inequities
- Poverty alleviation
- Hybrid organizing
- Organizational Learning
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Research interests:
- Global mobility
- Diversity
- Equity and Inclusion
- Gender equality
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Research interests:
- Digital Marketing
- Online User Behaviour
- Social Media
- User-generated Content
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Research interests:
- Biology
- Ecosystems
- Sustainability
- Rangelands
Research interests:
- Environmental Justice
- Indigeneity
- Human Rights
- Political Geography
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Research interests:
- Settler colonialism
- Extinction studies
- Science and technology studies
- Ecofeminism
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Research interests:
- Local institutions
- Clientelism
- India
- Left-revolutionary
Research interests:
- Participation
- Built Environment
- Mobility
- Health
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Research interests:
- Sustainable Development
- Technology
- Smallholder Agriculture
- Financial Inclusion
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Research interests:
- Development Education
- Buen vivir and alternatives to Development
- Non-Formal Education
- Global Citizenship
Nina Caspersen
Research interests:
- Intra-state conflicts
- Peace processes and peace settlements
- Unrecognised/de facto states
- Rebel governance
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Research interests:
- Health System Performance
- Health Economics
- Global Health
- Health Policy Reforms
![](/media/english/images/staffprofiles/Claire Chambers 220x220px.png)
Research interests:
- Literature
- Postcolonial Studies
- Migration
- South Asia
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Research interests:
- Citizenship
- Ethnicity
- Ethnography
- Genetics
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Research interests:
- Participatory GIS
- Urban Health
- Creative Methods
- Scenarios
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Research interests:
- Science
- Technology
- Economic Diversification
- Colonial Development
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Research interests:
- Economic history
- Environmental history
- History of Hong Kong
- History of Britain
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Research interests:
- Global Economic Governance
- Drivers of change in the world bank and IMF Operations
- UK Housing Provision
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Research interests:
- Environment and health
- Nature-based solutions
- Mental health
- Trials
![](https://www.york.ac.uk/media/chemistry/academicphotos/Kevin Cowtan.jpg)
Research interests:
- Data Analysis
- Climate Science
- Structural Biology
- Psychology of Science Denial
![](https://www.york.ac.uk/media/environment/images/staff/Darpan Das.jpg)
Research interests:
- Air Pollution
- Global South
- Africa
- South Asia
![](https://www.york.ac.uk/media/politics/images/individuals/Sara-de-Jong.jpg)
Research interests:
- Postcolonial and decolonial approaches to development
- NGOs
- Gender
- Migration
![](https://www.york.ac.uk/media/politics/images/individuals/Barnaby Dye 226.png)
Research interests:
- Political Economy
- Development
- South-South Cooperation
- Infrastructure
![](https://www.york.ac.uk/media/healthsciences/images/staff/Helen-Elsey.jpg)
Research interests:
- Urban health
- Public health
- Gender and equity
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Professor Jon Ensor
Research interests:
- Equitable development
- Environmental governance
- Climate change adaptation
Research interests:
- Creativity and Community
- Technology
- Education
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Research interests:
- Governance dimensions of Social and Environmental Change
- Climate Change
- Mekhong Region
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Research interests:
- Political geography
- Political ecology
- Natural resource management
- Natural resource conflict
![](https://www.york.ac.uk/media/cahr/staff-members/paul-gready-150.jpg)
Research interests:
- Transitional justice
- Human rights
- Development alternatives
- Informality
Research interests:
- Inequality
- Sustainability
- Economic growth
- Agriculture
Research interests:
- International law
- Statehood
- Climate change
- Climate justice
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Research interests:
- Governance
- Human rights
- Political economy
- Democracy
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Research interests:
- Human development
- Social justice
- Democratisation
- Economic governance
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Research interests:
- Sustainable development
- Urban development
- Urban (climate) resilience
- Urban inequality (gender and economic inequality)
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Research interests:
- Language
- Spoken communication
- Arabic
- Middle East
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Research interests:
- Severe Mental Ill Health (SMI)
- Comorbid physical and mental health
- Research ethics and cohorts
- Preventative psychosocial interventions in refugees
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Research interests:
- Development and human rights
- Climate and environmental change
- Human rights and social movements
- Transitional and transformative justice
Research interests:
- Global social policy
- Global health policy
- Global economy
- Political economy
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Research interests:
- Psychological Development
- Human evolution
- Social norms
- Prosocial behavior
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Research interests:
- Climate change adaptation
- Disasters
- Flooding
- Insurance
![](/media/igdc/people/Zoe-Irving-220x220px.jpg)
Research interests:
- Global social policy
- Decent work
- Austerity
- Small island states
![](/media/igdc/people/Hannah-Jennings-220x220px.jpg)
Research interests:
- Qualitative methods
- Chronic disease
- Community interventions
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Professor Jeff Jia
Research interests:
- Agricultural co-operatives
- Supply chain management
- Sustainability
- Resilience
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Research interests:
- Epidemiology
- Public health
- Tobacco
- Tuberculosis
![](/media/igdc/people/Paul-Kerswill-220x220px.jpg)
Research interests:
- Sociolinguistics
- Migration
- Ethnicity
- Language
![](/media/igdc/people/Khandakar-Shahadat-220x220px.jpg)
Research interests:
- Management and financial accounting
- Labour control
- Modern slavery
- Financial resource management
![](/media/igdc/news/Judith Krauss.jpg)
Research interests:
- Value chains
- Political ecology
- Decoloniality and justice in conservation
- Sustainable development goals
![](/media/igdc/people/Melanie-Kreye-220x220px.jpg)
Research interests:
- Circular supply chains
- Servitization
- Inter-organizational relationships
- Service-based business models
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D/K/125b
Research interests:
- Education and social justice
- Ghana
- West Africa
- Africa
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Research interests:
- Risk
- Management
- Culture
- Financial inclusion
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Research interests:
- Social protection
- Fragile states
- World Bank
- Global political economy
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Research interests:
- Environmental change
- Tropical vegetation
- Biogeography
- Ecology
Research interests:
- Injury epidemiology
- Child and adolescent health
- Sexual and reproductive health
- Injury and violence prevention
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Research interests:
- Tobacco
- Alcohol
- Medication adherence
- Low- and middle- income countries
![](/media/healthsciences/images/staff/Masuma-Mishu.jpg)
Research interests:
- Health inequality
- Oral health
- Mental health
- Tobacco cessation
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Research interests:
- Systematic reviews
- Child health
- Paediatric oncology
- Supportive care
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Research interests:
- Power
- Economic governance
- South Africa as a rising power in global governance
- Commonwealth
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Research interests:
- Democratisation
- Political leadership
- Environmental sociology
- Contentious politics
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Research interests:
- Comorbidity of mental and physical health
- Long-term health conditions
- Care and treatment
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Research interests:
- Supply chain impacts
- Deforestation
- Trans-boundary climate risk
- Carbon footprint
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Research interests:
- Ethnic conflict
- Civil war
- Mass atrocities
- Peacebuilding
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Research interests:
- Applied archaeology
- Sustainable agriculture
- Indigenous knowledge
- Traditional knowledge
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Research interests:
- Politics of development
- Gender
- Political violence
- Uganda
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Research interests:
- Algal biology
- Metabolism
- Enzymes
- Biotechnology
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Research interests:
- Ecosystem services
- Environmental hazards
- Sustainable use
- Environmental co-operation
Research interests:
- Health inequalities
- Mental health
- Maternal and infant health
- Pregnancy
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Research interests:
- International development
- Economic inequality with links to health
- Education and wellbeing
- Impact evaluation of environmental policies
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Research interests:
- Economic evaluation
- Social care/long term care
- Informal unpaid care
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Research interests:
- Biodiversity
- Ecosystem services
- Health and wellbeing
- Disease