A5044640760- Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
- Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Income, Poverty, and Inequality
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Children's Rights and Participation
- Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
- Agricultural risk and resilience
- Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
- International Development and Aid
- Evaluation and Performance Assessment
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Global Health Care Issues
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- Global Maternal and Child Health
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Health, psychology, and well-being
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
- Human Rights and Development
- Resilience and Mental Health
- Global Educational Policies and Reforms
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
- Data Analysis and Archiving
King's College London
2024
University of East Anglia
2012-2023
Norwich Research Park
2015-2021
Norwich University
2021
Ministry of Gender and Development
2003-2018
University of Oxford
2008-2011
International Organization for Migration
2010
Centre For Development Studies
2010
Queen Elizabeth’s Academy
2008-2009
University of Bath
2004-2008
Abstract Monitoring, protecting and promoting 'well-being' are central to realisation of children's rights. Yet definitions the concept both variable can appear conceptually confused. Competing research paradigms engage with its measurement, while applications well-being in policy equally contested. This paper outlines some major debates, as a starting point for reviewing three contrasting approaches well-being: indicator-based, participatory, longitudinal research. In particular, it focuses...
Semi-arid regions across Africa and Asia are characterized by rapidly changing biophysical regimes, structural vulnerabilities, increasing livelihood precarity. Gender, class, caste/ethnic identities relationships, the specific social, economic political power, roles responsibilities they entail, shape choices decisions open to individuals households in managing risks face. Unpacking multiple, intersecting inequalities confronting rural populations these climate hotspots is therefore vital...
Abstract We studied the effect of cervical dystonia on quality life in a cohort 289 patients by using generic health status measurement scale (SF36). Cervical had significant negative impact compared with age‐matched general population data. This was comparable to that seen multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, and stroke. © 2002 Movement Disorder Society
The thrust for evidence‐based policymaking has paid little attention to problems of bias. Statistical evidence is more fragile than generally understood, and false positives are all too likely given the incentives policymakers academic professional evaluators. Well‐known cognitive biases make bias not dissimilar reasons in qualitative mixed methods evaluations. What we term delinquent organisational isomorphism promotes purportedly scientific evaluations inappropriate institutional contexts,...
This article links primary research into the way subjective well‐being among poor people can be defined and measured to growing literature on poverty as a failure of capacity aspire. Data from Bangladesh, Thailand Peru are used illustrate measurement strategy based defining function gap between individuals’ diverse multiple aspirations, their satisfaction with achieving them. Such analysis has potential illuminate variation in individual local respond different development opportunities. It...