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Dr Jenny Diggins

Post:Research & Evaluation Manager (Planning)
Location:ARTS C C228 c/o Christina Oelgemoller
Email:J.Diggins@sussex.ac.uk
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Biography

As an undergraduate, I studied Archaeology and Anthropology at Oxford.  Later, I took an MA in The Anthropology of Development and Social Transformation and an MSc in Cross-Cultural Research Methods; both at the University of Sussex. My doctoral research was funded by the ESRC.

Qualifications

2014:  PhD, Social Anthropology, University of Sussex

2009:  MSc, Cross-Cultural Research Methods, University of Sussex (with distinction).

2008:  MA, Anthropology of Development and Social Transformation, Univesity of Sussex (with distinction).

2003: BA, Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Oxford.

 

 

Activities

Consultant Researcher, Institute of Development Studies

I am currently working on a DfID funded research project entitled, ‘Influencing Policies to Support Women and Girls’. I am carrying out a case study in Sierra Leone, exploring the ways in which male activists have been able to mobilize against gender-based violence.

I am also part of an interdisciplinary research consortium, based at the Institute of Development Studies, which will be advising on the major lessons for development following the Ebola crisis in West Africa.