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Home»E-Learning»Webinar video: Wellbeing and extreme and persistent poverty

Webinar video: Wellbeing and extreme and persistent poverty

E-Learning
  • Webinar
  • Sarah White and Andrew Shepherd
March 2016

https://youtu.be/T0sfe5RASN0

Prof Sarah White (University of Bath) and Andrew Shepherd (Chronic Poverty Advisory Network) gave presentations on  extreme and persistent poverty and wellbeing.  They drew on their experience research to reflect on comments and questions raised by participating development practitioners.

The webinar was held on 3 March 2016.

An audio-only version of the webinar is available

About the author: Sarah White and Andrew Shepherd

Sarah C. White is a professor of international development and wellbeing at the University of Bath. Her work explores the tensions between local experience and global policy narratives, with a particular emphasis on culture and social identities. Her main research location is South Asia, especially Bangladesh. From 2010-14 she directed the ESRC/DFID funded study Wellbeing and Poverty Pathways in Zambia and India (www.wellbeingpathways.org). With Asha Abeyasekera, she edited Wellbeing and Quality of Life Assessment: a Practical Guide (Practical Action Publishing, 2014). Cultures of Wellbeing: Method, Place, Policy, which she has edited with Chloe Blackmore, is due out November 2015 (Palgrave Macmillan).

Andrew Shepherd is director of the Chronic Poverty Advisory Network, hosted at the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), where he is a Research Fellow. He was the director of the Chronic Poverty Research Centre between 2000 and 2011, and has also been a director of programmes at ODI, with a focus on Rural Policy and Governance (2003-8). He has been the lead author of three international Chronic Poverty Reports, and co-authored the IFAD 2011 Rural Poverty Report. Andrew has published several books and journal articles on poverty reduction and rural development, and was previously a Senior Lecturer at the University of Birmingham and also worked for UNICEF in the Sudan.
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