Peer Review College November 2015 Fellows of the Peer Review College Asadullah, Professor Mohammah University of Malaya, Faculty of Economics Mohammad Niaz Asadullah is Professor of Development Economics in the Faculty of Economics and Deputy Director the Centre for Poverty and Development Studies (CPDS) at Malaya University. Previously he taught economics at Reading University and held research and teaching positions at Oxford University and BRAC. Professor Asadullah received his Doctorate degree in Economics from the University of Oxford. His research interests include development economics, economics of education and labour economics. Current research draws upon data from South-East Asia and focuses on issues such as inter- generational economic mobility, subjective well-being, causes and consequence of extreme poverty, inequality of opportunity, quality of secondary schools and the rise of Islamic schools, and the low level of student learning in school. Azmat, Dr Fara Deakin University, School of Management Fara Azmat is a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Business and Law at Deakin University. She holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Monash University. Her research interests include corporate social responsibility, responsible entrepreneurship in developing countries, social inclusion, social entrepreneurship, immigrant entrepreneurship and women entrepreneurship. 1 Bandyopadhyay, Dr Sanghamitra London School of Economics and Political Science, Faculty of Economics Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay is a Senior Lecturer in Economics and the Deputy Director of the Centre for Globalisation Research at Queen Mary University of London. Previously, she held academic appointments at the University of Oxford, University of Birmingham and the London School of Economics, where she also completed her PhD in 2002. Her research interests include the economics of growth and development, measurement of inequality and poverty and applied econometrics. Becker, Dr Jane Ministry of Justice, Analytical Services Skills: government social research, analysing admin data sets, designing questionnaires, all aspects of qualitative research - design, undertaking fieldwork and coding and analysis of transcripts. Research project management including commissioning and procurement. Key areas of work: assessing equality impacts of new criminal, civil and administrative justice policy proposals using all available evidence both quantitative and qualitative and recommending improvements to data collection of individuals protected characteristics to monitor equality impacts as policies are implemented. Bochel, Professor Hugh University of Lincoln, School of Social Science Hugh Bochel is a Professor of Public Policy at the University of Lincoln. Previously, he worked for the Essex County Council and held posts as researcher at the University of Edinburgh and the University of Kent, where he also completed his PhD. Professor Bochel has wide ranging research and teaching interests in both politics and social policy. While some elements of his work fall clearly into each of those subject areas, in recent years aspects of his research and teaching have developed to reflect the congruence 2 of politics and social policy, particularly around the policy process and the politics of social policy. In 2014 he published the book Watching the watchers: parliament and the intelligence services with Andrew Defty and Jane Kirkpatrick. Bradshaw, Dr Sarah Middlesex University, School of Law Sarah Bradshaw is Associate Professor in Development Studies at Middlesex University. She obtained her PhD from the London School of Economics and Politics. Dr Bradshaw’s research interests lies in the field of gender and development, with a specific focus on Latin America. In particular her research includes the post-2015 development agenda, gender and development, gendered post-disaster relief and reconstruction interventions, NGOs, social movements and civil society, poverty and poverty reduction strategies, rights and rights based approaches and gender roles and relations within households. In the 1990s Dr Bradshaw began working on women's rights issues in Nicaragua sponsored by Progressio UK and this relationship continues to date. This has meant working closely with actors of the women's movements in Central America and in particular with the Nicaraguan feminist NGO, Puntos de Encuentro. Briggs, Professor John University of Glasgow, School of Geographical and Earth Sciences John Briggs is Professor of Geography at the University of Glasgow. He is also Clerk of Senate and Vice Principal. His research interests include the relationship between the use and management of natural resources and sustainable rural development in low income countries. A particular interest revolves around questions about indigenous environmental knowledge systems, how these are constructed and re-worked, and how these inform a better understanding of sustainable rural development. The work is also sensitive to gender differences in such knowledges and how these relate to gender relations and roles in natural resource management issues. Current work is being undertaken among Bedouin communities in the south-east desert of Egypt and in the semi-arid areas of north-west South Africa. 3 Budds, Dr Jessica University of East Anglia, International Development Jessica Budds is a Senior Lecturer in Geography and International Development at the University of East Anglia. She holds a DPhil from the University of Oxford. Dr Budds spent five years of her research career in South America (Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Peru) and also has experience in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, South Africa, Sudan and Zambia. Her research interests include water politics, management and governance. Her work explores how power relations produce and reproduce socio-ecological change in the global South with implications for the lives, livelihoods, landscapes and identities of low-income and/or marginalised social groups. Campos, Professor Nauro Brunel University London, Economics and Finance Nauro Campos is Professor of Economics and Finance at Brunel University London. Previously, he was a Reader and Lecturer (Associate and tenured Assistant Professor, respectively) at the University of Newcastle and Assistant Professor at CERGE-EI in Prague. Professor Campos received his PhD from the University of Southern California. His research interests include economic growth, political economy and finance labour economics. Nauro Campos is a member of the Brunel Macroeconomics Research Centre (BMRC) and Centre for Economic Development and Institutions (CEDI). 4 Caraher, Professor Martin City University London, School of Social Sciences Martin Caraher is Professor at the Centre for Food Policy at City University London. He previously worked for and acted as a consultant to the UK Department of Health, the World Bank and the World Health Organisation. Professor Caraher completed his PhD at South Bank University. His research interests include food poverty, cooking skills, local sustainable food supplies, the role of markets and co-ops in promoting health, farmers markets, food deserts and food access, retail concentration and globalisation. Recent work has focused on the impact of food advertising on children's food choices and the impact of advertising regulation. His interests in sustainability come from the perspective of local food chains and the attempts by social enterprises to build sustainability into their work. Caroll, Dr Julia Coventry University, Health and Life Sciences Julia Caroll is a Reader in Child Development and Education at Coventry University. Previously, she was an Associated Professor at the University of Warwick. Dr Caroll obtained her PhD from the University of York. Her research interests include language and literacy development. She is particularly interested in how spoken language skills and written language skills are linked. Her most recent research concerns the phonological and morphological skills of children with dyslexia and children with hearing impairments. Over the past five years her research has shown that early language difficulties can result in later phonological deficits, even in children with good early phonology, and that targeted language and phonology interventions can improve early literacy development. 5 Cartwright, Dr Edward University of Kent, School of Economics Edward Cartwright is Reader in Economics at the University of Kent. He gained his PhD from the University of Warwick and subsequently spent a year as a post-doctoral student at Université Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne. His research interests include game theory, behavioural economics and public economics. His current work focuses on aspects of leadership, social learning and social influence. Specifically, it looks to model situations where economic agents are making decisions sequentially or repeatedly and can observe what other agents have done in the past. Particular applications of interest include public good games, coordination games, and large games. Champion, Professor Anthony Newcastle University, Geography Politics and Sociology Anthony Champion was Professor of Population Geography at Newcastle University and is now Emeritus, located within the university’s Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies (CURDS). He has acted as adviser to the UN Population Division, the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) and the UK government and has served on a number of committees including the Council of the