Dr Elliott Green

This course is available on the MRes/PhD in International Development. This course is not available as an outside option.

This course is available as an option for students enrolled on the MRes/PhD in International Development only.

The objectives of the course are: a) to introduce students to the practical world of development which will both facilitate their career paths and also prepare them for the consultancy projects by becoming more familiar with how such organisations think and work; b) to introduce students to the interface between policy practice and development academe.

Students enrolled on DV545 follow an independent course of study on an approved topic. They will be matched with an adviser (any member of staff in the department who is not their primary supervisor), who will support them in producing the final research paper. There are no set lectures or seminars for this course, though students will be encouraged to make good use of the weekly lectures on DV445 (Cutting Edge Issues in Development Thinking & Practice), which feature speakers from different development organisations and research institutes.

Students will be expected to produce 1 piece of coursework in the LT.

A plan for the research paper (1500-2000 words) on which the student will receive feedback and topic approval

Allen T (with Melissa Parker) (2012) "Will mass drug administration eliminate lymphatic filariasis? Evidence from Northern Coastal Tanzania" Journal of Biosocial Science.

Brett, Edwin (2009) Reconstructing development theory: international inequality, institutional reform and social emancipation. Palgrave Macmillan.

Corbridge, Stuart (2012) India today: economy, polity and society in an emerging power. Polity Press.

Dyson, Tim (2010) Population and development: the demographic transition. Zed Books, London, UK.

Faguet, Jean-Paul (2012) Governance from below: decentralization and popular democracy in Bolivia. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, USA.

Keen, David (2012), Useful Enemies, Yale University Press.

Sequeira, Sandra (2013). Transport Corridors and Economic Growth in Africa: Evidence from the Maputo Corridor, World Bank, Washington DC, USA.

Shadlen, Kenneth C (with Sebastian Hauss) eds (2011). Politics of Intellectual Property: Contestation over the Ownership, Use and Control of Information Edward Elgar.

Wade, Robert Hunter (2011) "Emerging world order?: from multipolarity to multilateralism in the G20, the World Bank, and the IMF". Politics & Society, 39 (3).

Essay (100%, 5000 words) in the ST.