Jessica Hawkins
Email: jessica.hawkins@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk
2009, MA International Development: Poverty, Conflict and Reconstruction, University of Manchester.
2005, BA European Studies with German and Italian, Lancaster University.
Supervisors: Tim Jacoby and Sam Hickey.
Research interests
State formation and state-building processes, social theories, histories of development, colonial history, conflict and reconstruction, political economy, education.
Research Work
Oct 2010 - ongoing: Feasability study on research and teaching in Islamic Studies, funded by the Faculty of Humanities, the University of Manchester
Aug - Dec 2010: Exploratory research on healthcare provision in Gulu, Uganda for Professor Redmond, Dean at Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, funded by UK-MED.
Feb - Dec 2010: Research for an annotated bibliography on Social Contract approaches in development, responsible to Dr Sam Hickey, funded by the Chonic Poverty Research Centre.
Nov - Dec 2009: Evauation study of the ESRC funded Wellbeing in Development Group, conducted for Dr Sam Hickey, funded by the Institute for Development Policy and Management.
Teaching Experience
Contributor to second year undergraduate module Literacy and Social Development lectures, School of Education (An Introduction to Development Studies, A Case study of Literacy in Uganda).
Teaching Assistant for Masters modules Political Economy of Development, Transformations of the World Economy and Development as Historical Change in IDPM.
Teaching assistant for undergraduate modules in Work, Economy and Society; Work, Organisations and Society; and Media, Culture and Society in Sociology, School of Social Sciences.
English Language and History Assistant at Kantonsschule in Baselland and Zürich, Switzerland, 2003-4, 2005-6.
Additional Interests
Learning languages, travel and alto saxophonist for the Dave Egerton Band, Altrincham.