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Completed PhD Students

Jan Harthoorn
(2023) Patronage, Production, Purpose and Provenance: An examination of an unpublished group of late fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century Illuminated Books of Hours at Alnwick Castle
Jill Howitt
(2023) Contemporary Public Art in the North of England
Sarah Roberts
(2023) The decorations of "The Hall of the Liberal Arts" at the Trinci Palace, Foligno: a new way of presenting the Seven Liberal Arts?
Craig Walker
(2017) Violence in the wake of civil war: investigating the transformation of inter-group relations in Nepal and Mozambique.
Sunny Omwenyeke
(2015) Evaluating transnational advocacy networks (TANS): the case of the Jubilee 2000 Campaign (J2K).
Helene Vannier
(2015) Development as freedom, freedom as exchange: understanding the relationship between forms of exchange and human capabilities in a development context: the case of old-Alagados in Salvador de Bahia (Brazil).
Andrew Agyei-Holmes
(2014) Tilling the soil in Tanzania: what the emerging countries have to offer.
Richmond Atta-Ankomah
(2014) China’s presence in Developing countries technology basket: the case of furniture manufacturing in Kenya.
David Botchie
(2014) Distinctiveness of Asian driver and western garment technologies in Uganda.
Claire Vallings
(2014) Destined to fail? Why do UN integrated missions underperform?
Geoffrey Banda
(2013) Financing ARV drug manufacture in Zimbabwe: implications for technological capabilities and innovation of African local pharmaceutical production.
John Gillott
(2013) The Changing Governance of Science? A critical enquiry into the contemporary politics of governance of natural science research as expected through the human tissue and embryos cases in the UK.
Letsema Mbayi
(2013) Turning rough dreams into a polished reality? Investigating the formation of human capital in Botswana’s diamond cutting and polishing industry.
Elvin Nyukuri
(2013) Climate change policy and vulnerability of tropical forest communities in East Africa.
Claudio Velasco
(2013) Driving institutional innovation for agricultural innovation through R&D projects.
Alison Buckler
(2012) Policy and practice in rural Sub-Saharan schools; female teachers voices and perspectives.
Jeremy Cunningham
(2012) Schooling for conflict transformation: a case study from Northern Uganda.
Sally Hartley
(2012) Learning for development through cooperation: the engagement f youth with cooperatives in Lesotho and Uganda.
Rachel Masika
(2012) Gender, agency and mobile phones: urban street traders in Uganda.
Elisabeth Narsquo
(2012) A Boundary Organisation for the South: the success and challenges of TWAS, the Academy of Sciences for the developing world, in attaining power for scientists of the south.
Ann Bruce
(2011) The Textures of Controversy: Values and Interests in Disputes Around Genomics.
Jamie Kesten
(2011) Multicultural UK cities and African migration.
Vuyo Mjimba
(2011) The nature and determinants of backward linkages in emerging mineral commodity sectors: a case study of gold mining in Tanzania.
Mary Upton
(2011) The Politics of Health: community engagement in South African HIV vaccine clinical trials.
Ozan Zeybek
(2011) Turkish migration and development.
Maurice Bolo
(2010) Partners for Learning and Innovation: a Case Study of ‘farmer-exporter’ Partnerships in Kenya.
Clive Gabay
(2010) The relationships that bind? Power and alter-globalisation networks.
Graham Hunter
(2010) Measuring capabilities an empirical investigation of the Sen-Nussbaum approach to well-being.
Lillian Jensen
(2010) Innovation in Pharma Companies: an Investigation of R&D and External Knowledge Acquisition.
Anne Terheggen
(2010) The new kid in the forest: the impact of China’s resource demand on Gabon’s tropical timber value chain.
Julia Tijaja
(2010) Exogenous factors and domestic agency in value-chain dynamics: lessons from the Thai cassava value chains.
Vikas Chandra
(2009) Patents and Publication Networks in Stem Cell Research.
Masuma Farooki
(2009) The southern engine of growth and hard commodity prices: Does China lead to disruptive development?
Ann Kin
(2009) An Enquiry into Biosafety Regulation Implementation in Kenya: perspectives and roles of scientists.
Stuart Parris
(2009) Venture Capital in the UK: a Regional Deal?
Tamar Shengelia
(2009) The Discourses of the GM Crops Debate.
Alex Borda-Rodriguez
(2008) Knowledge for Development? Reflections from consultants and advisors in Bolivia.
Pelin Demirel
(2008) Firm Growth, Innovation and Implications for Market Selection; the Pharmaceutical Industry.
Rebecca Hanlin
(2008) Partnerships for Vaccine Development: Building Capacity to Strengthen Developing Country Health and Innovation.
Farah Huzair
(2008) Innovative Capabilities of the Agricultural Biotechnology Sector in Hungary.
Adele Langlois
(2008) The UNESCO Genetics and Bioethics Declarations: Implications for Global Governance.
Julius Mugwagwa
(2008) Supranational Organisations and Cross-national Policy Convergence: the Cast of Biosafety in Southern Africa.
Phil Spires
(2006) Formal education and the development of modern attitudes and values in the Philippines in the (1990s.
Karin Boschert
(2005) Agrawende: Cognitive-normative Approaches to Policy Change in German Agro-biotechnology.
Kalpana Chaturvedi
(2005) The Dynamics of Technological Innovation in the Indian Pharmaceutical Industry.
Dinar Kale
(2005) Re-developing Knowledge Creation Capacity in the Indian Pharmaceutical Industry.
Gavin Andersson
(2004) Unbound governance: a study of popular demand organization.
Steven Chipika
(2004) Networking and technological learning: small and medium size manufacturing enterprises in Zimbabwe.
Linda Ludwin
(2004) The one shot deal: temporary organisations, UK feature film units and learning organisation theory.
John Shepherd
(2004) The influence of standardization and regulation on the development of intelligent networks.
Caroline Temple-Bird
(2004) Managing the import and use of healthcare technologies in Sub-saharan Africa.
Linden Vincent
(2004) Science technology and agency in the development of drought prone areas: a cognitive history of drought and security.
Ivo Kovachev
(2003) Revival and development strategies for East European economies in transition.
Fenella Porter
(2003) Doing things differently: institutionalising gender into a development organisation that works through volunteers.
Seife Ayele
(2002) The role and impact of investment incentives on small and medium sized enterprise development in Ethiopia.
Chris High
(2002) Opening spaces for learning : a systems approach to sustainable development.
Stephanie Allen-Early
(2001) Brazilian, feminist non-govermental organisations - a force for change : constructing citizenship through health sector reform and delivery of reproductive rights.
Celia Diniz
(2001) Financial administration and accounting as institutional development in an African university: learning from research organisation at Eduardo Mondlane University in Mozambique.
Alexandro di Stefano
(2001) Beyond the Rhetoric: A grounded perspective on learning company and learning community relationships.
Joanne Fildes
(2001) Constraints to small firm growth and the role of business advice in townships on the Cape Flats, South Africa.
Leroi Henry
(2001) Doing development and being Gurage, the embeddedness of development in Sebat Bet Gurage identities.
Elizabeth McMillan
(2001) Complexity theory and the learning organisation.
Dorcas Robinson
(2000) Public actors or private providers? NGOs, health sector reform and community based health care in Tanzania.
Ramya Subrahmanian
(1999) Co-producing universal primary education in a context of social exclusion: households, community organisations and state administration in a district of Karnataka, India.
Elaheh Rostami-Povey
(1998) Explaining women's employment under the Islamic state in Iran.
Philip Cerny
(1997 The implications of option pricing theory on UK development.
David Reece
(1997) Agricultural research practice for environmental management and poverty reduction: the case of CIAT.
Sally Caird
(1996) Team approaches to innovative development projects.
Hazel Johnson
(1995) Reproduction, exchange relations and food insecurity: maize production and maize markets in Honduras.
Dina Abbott
(1994) Women’s home based income generation as a strategy towards poverty survival: dynamics of the “khannawalli” (meal-making) activity of Bombay.
Henrietta Lidchi
(1994) All in the choosing eye: charity, representation and the developing world.
Fiona Russell
(1993) ‘Regulation and technological change: new food legislation.
Joanna Chataway
(1992) The making of biotechnology: a case study of radical innovation.
Helena Dolny
(1992) Land and agrarian reform in South Africa: land ownership, land markets and the state.
Richard Heeks
(1991) State policy, liberalisation and the development of the Indian software industry.
Pamela Cawthorne
(1990) Amoebic capitalism as a form of accumulation: the case of the cotton knitwear industry in a south Indian town.
Simon Marvin
(1990) The relationship between local and national policy making in science and technology’.
Keith Jefferis
(1988) The performance of worker cooperatives in a capitalist economy: a study in political economy.
John Moss-Jones
(1987) Automating managers: the implications of information technology for managers.
Marc Wuyts
(1986) Money and Planning for Socialist Transition; the Mozambican experience.

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