“My research focuses on decision-making under uncertainty, specifically as related to foreign aid & international development, race, migration, and inter-governmental relations, and trust & disasters.”
About
I am a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at the Department of Government at the University of Essex. I study how citizens and policy makers make decisions under uncertainty, and how those decisions affect economic, social, and political development and subsequent policy outcomes. I specifically focus on foreign aid, international development, and disasters, asking how development financing can be judiciously allocated to help avert, alleviate, mitigate, and manage disasters. My work has been published in media outlets such as The Conversation, the PreventionWeb and Vox.com, and can be found in academic journals such as World Development, Political Analysis, Political Research Quarterly, the Journal of Risk Research, and the Review of Policy Research.
I am the Programme Director of the Programme Evaluation workstream of the HEFCE-funded Catalyst Project. I have been leading a team working with Local Authorities to help them develop metrics and tools to conduct impact evaluations of current and past projects. I have also been leading on development of a generic impact evaluation tool that could be applied by local governments seeking to streamline their impact evaluation practices.
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