Crawford, Prof. Dr. Gordon

Email:

gordon.crawford [at] coventry.ac.uk

Areas of Research:

Human rights, democracy and development; democracy promotion; participatory democracy; structural inequalities and the role of social movements; natural resource governance

Regional Focus:

Sub-Saharan Africa (especially Ghana); South Asia (especially Nepal)

Education:

1993 - 1998	PhD Politics, University of Leeds
1988 - 1990	MA Development Studies (Distinction), University of Leeds
1987 - 1988	Post Graduate Certificate in Education [Further Education], University of Huddersfield
1971 - 1974	BA (Hons) Sociology, Class 2.1, University of Leeds

Professional Experience / Applied Research:

February 2017 - present	Honorary Professor, Department of Political Science, Freiburg University
October 2015 - present	Research Professor in Global Development, Centre for Trust, Peace & Social Relations, Coventry University
July 2008 – September 2015	Professor of Development Politics, School of Politics and International Studies, University of Leeds
August 2007 – June 2008	Reader in Development Studies, School of Politics and International Studies, University of Leeds
August 2002 – July 2007	Senior Lecturer in Development Studies, School of Politics and International Studies, University of Leeds
September 1996 – July 2002	Lecturer in Development Studies, School of Politics and International Studies, University of Leeds
January 1993 - August 1996	Research/Teaching Fellow. Department of Politics,University of Leeds

Curriculum Vitae

Most important publications

Understanding Global Development Research: Fieldwork Issues, Experiences and Reflections. Crawford G., Kruckenberg L.J., Loubere N., Morgan R. (2017), Sage Publications

‘Human Rights and Development: Putting Power and Politics at the Centre’, in Human Rights Quarterly, vol. 37, no. 3 (2015), pp.662-690 [with Bård A. Andreassen]

‘Leveraging national and global links for local rights advocacy: WACAM's challenge to the power of transnational gold mining in Ghana’, in Canadian Journal of Development Studies, vol. 35 issue 4, 2014, pp.483-502, [with Nana Akua Anyidoho].

‘Democratization in Africa 1990–2010: an assessment’, in Democratization, vol. 18, no. 2, April 2011, Special issue Democratization in Africa: challenges and prospects, pp.275-310 [with Gabrielle Lynch]

Foreign Aid and Political Reform: A Comparative Analysis of Democracy Assistance and Political Conditionality, Basingstoke: Macmillan Palgrave, (2001).

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