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DrDinah Rajak

Associate Professor in Anthropology and International Development (Anthropology)

School of Global Studies

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  • Associate Professor in Anthropology and International Development (Anthropology)
    School of Global Studies
  • +44 (0)1273 678561 Ext.8561 (Work)

TEACHING & SUPERVISION SUMMARy

TEACHING:

  • Global Development: Paradigms, Policy & Politics (Undergraduate, 1st Year Core Module)
  • Development, Business & Corporate Social Responsibility (Undergraduate 3rd Year Advanced Topic)
  • Fair Trade, Ethical Business and New Moral Economies (Postgraduate, MA)

 

OFFICE HOURS 2025-26: 

  • Mondays 1-2 In person in Arts C242
  • Thursdays 11-12 Online by appointment - please email for a time slot

 

ROLES: Academic Convenor for Postgraduate Research in Anthropology

 

SUPERVISION:

I have supervised several DPhil and Mphil students in the UK, Europe and South Africa including 4 with full ESRC studentships and mentored post-doctoral researchers and junior colleagues.

 

I am interested in supervising doctoral students working on business & development; ethical economies, extractive industries, corporate accountaibility, social responsibility; youth education, employment, and entrepreneurship; gender, markets, and the informal sector; global production networks and labour; HIV/Aids; sustainability, climate change and global governance; Sub-Saharan Africa. 

 

Current and recent doctoral students & post-doctoral fellows:

  • Nnenna Onitilo - Financial Inclusion, Gender and Development in Nigeria: A case study from market traders in Abuja
  • Rachel Claydon - Materilaising & marketising the 'good' feeding mother: Lived experiences of commercial childrens foods among UK mothers 
  • Jodie Le Marrec - The forgotten crisis of microfinance for disabled households in Cambodia
  • Kopo Veronicah Oromeng (University of Delaware) - Decarbonizing a critical enery assemblage: Implications of sustainability transformations in South African Platinum Group Metals (PGMs) mining on local communities
  • Asad Abbasi - Dying of the Light: Electricity, Extraction and Global China in Pakistan
  • Swapnil Gautam Gedam (Commonwealth Visiting Scholar) - Music & Politics of Caste: Dalit Voices of Liberation in Urban Sonicscape Of Mumbai
  • Dr Ishrat Khan Barsha - Women's sexual agency in Dhaka's professional middle class: Nuances of negotiation in everyday marriage
  • Dr Sarah-Jane Phelan - Calculating Care: Ways of working through (economic) insecurity in a Ougadougou Market
  • Dr Jessica Sklair - From philanthropy to impact investment: Brazilian & British Wealth Elites in International Development  [ESRC Postdoc Fellow]
  • Dr Deniz Seebacher - Incorporating Sustainability. An Ethnography of Moral Economies in a Turkish Apparel Corporation  [Post-doctoral Fellow]