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Personal profile
Biography
My current research interests continue to develop the themes of recent years: conjugality, gender relations social change, and epistemologies for development studies – particularly the politics of speech and the problematic nature of testimony. I am also working on consumption and development in South Africa and India.
Key Research Interests
Gender relations and agrarian change; intrahousehold relations, gender and development; research methods and epistemologies; marriage and conjugality.
Research Groups: Gender and Development
Recent Research Grants
2006-8: ‘Marriage, Power and Wellbeing’ DFID/ESRC Research Programme Sole researcher.
2007-10: ‘The intra-household allocation of resources: cross-cultural tests, methodological innovations and policy implications’ DFID/ESRC Research Programme Team member.
President of the Development Studies Association 2005-
Dean of the School of Development Studies 1999-2003
Consultancy on research impact assessment, gender and development and social development, in India, Sri Lanka, Guatemala, Bangladesh.
Areas of Expertise
Gender and development; environmental degradation and gender; research methods; poverty and women; rural development.
Teaching Interests
I am currently supervising the following research students:
Emil Dauncey: Masculinities in Sabon Zongo
Graeme Tolley: Youth masculinities in Gujerat: love, sex and marriage
Devanchi Chanchani : Understanding child nutrition in Chattisgargh
Juliet Colman: Gender relations through the lens of consumption: a Botswana case study
Mirna Guha: Sex trafficking in Bangladesh and India
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Projects
- 5 Finished
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Researching Gender - Concepts and Methods Short Course 2015
Rao, N., Camfield, L., Jackson, C. & Locke, C.
8/06/15 → 30/09/15
Project: Training
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RPC (Research Programme Consortium) to Address Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Security in South Asia
Ellis, F., Jackson, C., Lloyd-Sherlock, P., McGuire, S., Pain (ODG), A., Pattenden, J., Rao, N. & Seeley, J.
Department for International Development
27/04/11 → 16/05/11
Project: Research
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Marriage, Power and Welllbeing
Economic and Social Research Council
1/05/06 → 30/09/08
Project: Research
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Modernity and matrifocality: The feminization of kinship?
Jackson, C., 1 Jan 2015, In: Development and Change. 46, 1, p. 1-24 24 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
19 Citations (Scopus) -
Cooperative conflicts and gender relations: Experimental evidence from southeast Uganda
Jackson, C., 1 Nov 2013, In: Feminist Economics. 19, 4, p. 25-47 23 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Conjugality as social change: A Zimbabwean case
Jackson, C., 2012, In: Journal of Development Studies. 48, 1, p. 41-54 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
13 Citations (Scopus) -
Internal and external validity in experimental games: A social reality check
Jackson, C., 2012, In: European Journal of Development Research. 24, p. 71-88 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
20 Citations (Scopus) -
Marriage, gender relations and social change
Jackson, C. J., 2012, In: Journal of Development Studies. 48, 1, p. 1-9 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
31 Citations (Scopus)