Grant winners

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL

ESRC/DFID Joint Scheme for Research on International Development (Poverty Alleviation)

This partnership between the UK's Department for International Development and ESRC will fund development research, providing a more robust conceptual and empirical basis for development and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Listed below are the winners of the second phase.

• Award winner: S.M. Thomas
• Institution: University of Bristol
• Value: £494,385

Improving teacher development and educational quality in China: examining schools as professional learning communities

• Award winner: M. Duffield
• Institution: University of Bristol
• Value: £484,990

Achieving policy coherence in challenging environments: risk management and aid culture in Sudan and Afghanistan

• Award winner: H. Schmitz
• Institution: Institute of Development Studies
• Value: £3,635

Challenging the investment climate paradigm: governance, investment and poverty reduction in Vietnam

• Award winner: F. Wu
• Institution: Cardiff University
• Value: £326,510

The development of migrant villages under China's rapid urbanisation: implications for poverty and slum policies

• Award winner: P.J. Pridmore
• Institution: Institute of Education, University of London
• Value: £499,946

Healthy urbanisation: tackling child malnutrition through intervening to change the social determinants of health in informal settlements and slums

• Award winner: C.B. Herrick
• Institution: King's College London
• Value: £217,551

Alcohol control, poverty and development in South Africa

• Award winner: P. Justino
• Institution: Institute of Development Studies
• Value: £494,479

Agency and governance in contexts of civil conflict

• Award winner: D. Bryceson
• Institution: University of Glasgow
• Value: £493,323

Urban growth and poverty in mining Africa

• Award winner: R. Jeffrey
• Institution: University of Edinburgh
• Value: £499,393

Biomedical and health experimentation in South Asia: critical perspectives on collaboration, governance and competition

• Award winner: D. Hulme
• Institution: University of Manchester
• Value: £499,366

Community and institutional responses to the challenges facing poor urban people in an era of global warming in Bangladesh

• Award winner: S. White
• Institution: University of Bath
• Value: £499,906

Assessing well-being for the alleviation of poverty

• Award winner: M. Walton
• Institution: Centre for Policy Research, Delhi
• Value: £131,252

Citizens and the state in urban India: an in-depth investigation of emergent citizenship and public goods provision

• Award winner: R.L. Walker
• Institution: University of Oxford
• Value: £494,436

Shame, social exclusion and the effectiveness of anti-poverty programmes: a study in seven countries

• Award winner: J.D. Davila
• Institution: University College London
• Value: £244,575

Local governance, urban mobility and poverty reduction: lessons from Medellin, Colombia

• Award winner: C. van Stolk
• Institution: RAND Europe, Cambridge
• Value: £300,529

Understanding external determinants of the effectiveness of cash conditional transfers

• Award winner: S.H. Mayhew
• Institution: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
• Value: £496,346

Challenging the development paradigm: assessing accountability and equity of global institutions in climate-change governance responses to the poor

• Award winner: A. Brown
• Institution: Cardiff University
• Value: £313,518

Making space for the poor: law, rights, regulation and street trade in the 21st century

• Award winner: A.M. Ibanez
• Institution: University of the Andes, Colombia
• Value: £255,063

The economic and social consequences of armed conflict in Colombia: evidence for designing effective policies in conflict and post-conflict regions

• Award winner: S. Barakat
• Institution: University of York
• Value: £347,610

The influence of DFID-sponsored state building-oriented research on British policy in fragile, post-conflict environments

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• Award winner: Caroline Moser
• Institution: University of Manchester
• Value: £496,420

Understanding the tipping point of urban conflict: violence, cities and poverty reduction in the developing world

This project will conduct collaborative and participatory research with local research institutions and members of poor communities directly affected by violence in four cities in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Challenging policy assumptions, researchers will seek to identify dynamics underlying urban violence to provide a more robust evidence base to inform decision-making.