My professional background is in local and regional economic development, working in Manchester and London. I run a consultancy specialising in research and policy development for urban areas.
- PhD - Development Policy and Management - University of Manchester - ESRC CASE Studentship (2014)
- MSc - Poverty and Development - University of Manchester (2011)
- PGDip - Applied Research Methods - Thames Valley University (1994)
- BA (Hons) - Combined Studies - University of Reading (1990)
• Urban development and management
• Institutional change
• Co-production
• Capability approach
• Street children
Current Research Projects
I am Research Director of an international research project working with street children and youth in the African cities of Accra, Bukavu and Harare called Growing up on the Streets. The project, which is funded through the Sainsbury Backstage Trust and also has ESRC funds for Knowledge Exchange, is tracking the lives and experiences of 198 young people as they ‘grow up on the street’. The research has a number of distinctive features including adopting the capability approach as a framework, training young people to be researchers, and in using longitudinal data collection with street children. Further details and publications are available at
www.streetinvest.org/guots.