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Professor, Anthropology and Global Development, University of Sussex

I obtained my PhD in Anthropology from the University of California Berkeley, where I also taught at the School for Information and the Department of Anthropology. I then taught at the University of Auckland (New Zealand) before joiningSussex in September 2014. I am also the co-founder and former Research Director of the RiOS Institute, a Silicon Valley based organization, and have been consulting for the World Bank Institute, the United Nation's Global Alliance for ICT and Development, RedR and Sonder Design.

My current research focuses on the student housing cooperative movement in the UK and its transnational connections, against a backdrop of a crisis in affordable, safe and democratic housing for students. This project grew out of my interest in creative education for global development in HE, and particularly with how this allows students to better understand global challenges and imagine and creative alternative responses - such as housing cooperatives - to these. My book on this topic, Creative Universities: Reimagining Education for Global Challenges and Alternative Futures, was published by Bristol University Press. More information about this work can be found at www.creativeuniversities.com

Experience

  • –present
    Seniour Lecturer in Anthropology and International Development, University of Sussex

Education

  • 2006 
    University of California, Berkeley, PhD Anthropology