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The Making of a Better World
Rosalind Eyben spent a career as a practitioner in international development and then as an academic on the subject. Her 2014 book, “International Aid and the Making of a Better World: Reflexive Practice” is one of the few books that critically self-analyzes a personal trajectory. Unlike some personal journals/journeys of aid workers, this focuses upon […]
Tags: #Gender #Human Rights #International development #Participation #Reflexivity
PhD Studentship: Emerging Black Middle Class in South Africa
The Department of Social Research invites applications for a fixed term from 1.1.2017 to 30.4.2020. The field of the position is Social and Cultural Anthropology and it relates to the Doctoral Programme in Social Sciences. Social and Cultural Anthropology is a small but vibrant unit with two professors, three university lecturers and 16 researchers and PhD […]
Tags: #Anthropology #Cultural Anthropology #PhD Studentship #Social Sciences #South Africa
Post-doc: Social Innovation
University of Waterloo – Institute for Social Innovation and Resiliance One year fulltime postdoctoral fellowship: $50,000 annual salary, office and administrative support provided Supervision by Frances Westley, McConnell Chair in Social Innovation, and Dan McCarthy, Director of the Waterloo Institute for Social Innovation and Resilience (WISIR) The University of Waterloo’s Institute for Social Innovation and Resilience […]
Tags: #Complexity #Post-doc #Resilience #Social Innovation #Transformation
Infections and Inequalities
An essential read, whether you are in development studies, anthropology or medicine, is Paul Farmer’s Infections and Inequalities (1999). “This book examines inequalities in the distribution and outcome of infectious diseases. It asks why people like Annette Jean and her siblings are likely to die of infections such as tuberculosis and AIDS and malaria, while […]
Tags: #Anthropology #Cost effectiveness #Gender #Inequality #Paul Farmer
IDRC Research Awards 2017
Eligibility: This call is open to Canadians, permanent residents of Canada, and citizens of developing countries pursuing OR who have completed a master’s or a doctoral degree at a recognized university. Who can apply: Positions are available at IDRC’s head office in Ottawa, Canada and at our regional office for Sub-Saharan Africa in Nairobi, Kenya. Eligibility criteria […]
Tags: #Governance #International development #International Development Research Centre #Justice #Research Award
The Anatomy of Giving
Most of the time development folks just speak with and to other development folks. Outsiders can bring a healthy voice to the conversation. Augusta Dwyer, in her 2015 work “The Anatomy of Giving” offers such a perspective on the aid industry, focusing upon Haiti. With a background as a journalist, she sets out to answer […]
Tags: #Aid #Anatomy of Giving #Civil society #Empowerment #International development
About me
Logan Cochrane
Logan is a Professor at HBKU in the College of Public Policy. He is an Associate Fellow of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences and an Adjunct Professor at Hawassa University (Institute for Policy and Development Research). Over the last twenty years, he has worked in Afghanistan, Benin, Burundi, Canada, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. Logan acts as a consultant for governmental agencies and non-governmental organizations, seeking to create bridges between research and practice.
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