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Meet our teaching staff

Dr Jappe Eckhardt

Programme Leader for the BA in Global Development

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"I’m a Dutch national but, I've lived and worked in Belgium, Switzerland, China and Canada and, since 2016, in Yorkshire. In those years I met and worked with people from many different cultural and disciplinary backgrounds, which has taught me the importance of studying the world around us from different angles and with little boundaries between academic disciplines. This is also exactly what we aim to do in our BA programme on Global Development: explore theories and practices of sustainability and global justice with tools from across the natural sciences, social sciences and humanities.

Dr Ellie Jew

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I first went to Africa when my undergrad dissertation supervisor offered me the chance to go with him to Botswana. I was really lucky to get that opportunity, and it has shaped the rest of my career. I did my masters in Zimbabwe and worked in Tanzania before conducting research there for my PhD. Through our new BA in Global Development I am able to give our students similar opportunities. My research focus was initially on wildlife conservation, but my experience has taught me how imperative it is to address poverty and inequality too in order to reach a thriving and sustainable world. This degree will help students to gain the interdisciplinary knowledge and skills needed to achieve this.⠀

Dr Phil Roberts

My PhD was awarded by the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney. Since then, I have undertaken field research in India and Ghana, looking at challenging exploitation in global supply chains. All this experience has taught me the importance of labour struggles in shaping development, and how often only direct action will get the goods. I'm really enjoying teaching on this degree programme, particularly discussing how global change is driven as much by developing economies as the developed, and how grassroots actors are just as important as elites.