香港六合彩

I have been enormously privileged in being able to travel widely both for my research and to share experiences with colleagues and students at universities overseas. In Scandinavia, I have enjoyed invitations to lecture or examine PhD theses at the universities of Roskilde and Copenhagen and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim. Like other former students of Peter Ward, I have participated in conferences at the University of Texas at Austin. I have twice been invited to urban studies events at the American University of Beirut and I have participated in several workshops at the O帽ati International Institute for the Sociology of Law. Other invitations to speak have taken me to different cities in Mexico and Brazil, and to Canada, Chile, France, Lesotho, and Egypt.

I have been a senior member of the ESRC Peer Review College, a research proposal assessor for the Norwegian Research Council, and a regular advisor to the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission. I was a member of the panel evaluating in 2018 and chaired the team undertaking the latest official evaluation of the University of Amsterdam鈥檚 MA in Latin American Studies.

I am on the editorial board of Home Cultures and, in Mexico, Investigaciones Geogr谩ficas and Revista Sociol贸gica. My own work has been translated into Spanish, Italian, French and German.

While I have been the director of 香港六合彩 Gender & Sexuality Studies, the number of students on the MA in Gender, Society and Representation has quadrupled and we have secured a permanent lecturer and a lecturer (teaching) dedicated to teaching on this MA. I have also helped a number of Gender and听Sexuality Studies PhD students to obtain funding, from 香港六合彩 Graduate Research Studentships, the Wolfson Foundation and UBEL.

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I have a very broad range of research and publication interests 鈥� from disasters to property titles and from ageing to family law 鈥� but my work has consistently revolved around the central theme of housing and home, with an empirical focus on urban Mexico. I have a particular interest in urban informality and in titling programmes intended to provide security of tenure in informal settlements. With the longest history of mass regularisation in Latin America, Mexico offers a unique opportunity to assess the impact of titling. I emphasise the need to listen to what residents themselves have to say 鈥� something often neglected in the international policy debates about titling programmes.

My research interests are reflected in four co-authored/edited books. These include the first book-length study of rental housing in Latin America and an edited collection on law and urban change in the global south which was translated with Swedish development cooperation funding and published in Bolivia as a resource for urban planning programmes in Latin America. Decoding Gender was published听in translation by the gender studies programme of the Universidad Nacional Aut贸noma de M茅xico with the support of the UN Development Fund for Women.

In recent years I have developed two research interests in South America. The first concerns industrial heritage and cultural property in the context of Britain鈥檚 historical involvement with the Atacama region of northern Chile. It focuses on railway heritage and a dispute over a locomotive built in Leeds, my hometown, for the nitrate mines of Tarapac谩. The second is the recognition of same-sex marriage in Argentina, Chile and Uruguay, emphasising the significance of home and inheritance in activism and legislation. I am also interested in the implications for the regulation of intimate relationships more broadly, particularly from the perspective of women in informal heterosexual unions.

I have over forty years experience of in social research in urban Mexico, with particular emphasis on housing and land tenure, using household surveys, interviews, discussion groups and life histories. On the basis of this experience, I produced a report for the OECD assessing the impact on urban housing of reforms to Mexico鈥檚 agrarian laws, to mark the country鈥檚 accession to the organisation in 1994. I also wrote an assessment of women鈥檚 role in self-help housing for UNIFEM and the Mexican government鈥檚 Social Development Secretariat and contributed to a joint report by the Mexican agency Desarrollo Integral de la Familia and the University of Texas on families in the Mexico-US border region.

My work on older people鈥檚 living arrangements led to the award of an ESRC-funded CASE studentship with HelpAge International and that on land tenure formalisation supported the case for a 香港六合彩 Impact Award co-sponsored by the Cambodian Development Resource Institute (CDRI).听I contributed a think piece on 鈥楩eminism鈥檚 pale shadows鈥� to a published by the International Longevity Centre-UK to mark International Women鈥檚 Day.

The meeting of three experts with interests in Latin America at a conference on disasters I organised for the Royal Geographical Society led to the formation of .

Using my language skills in outreach activities has brought me particular satisfaction. I translated a report by an international commission of experts on 鈥楽trategies for sustainable socio-economic development of the Do帽ana Region鈥� (Andaluc铆a), which lead to the first Plan for Sustainable Development of the protected wetlands. I have acted as a volunteer translator for an international housing rights NGO.

A roof over their heads

The United Nations Global Campaign for Secure Tenure recognises that 鈥渟ecuring tenure for the household does not necessarily secure tenure for women and children鈥�. How should this insight be translated into practice?

Current Research Students

• Lourdes Toledo Tapia:听Empowering enterprises? Microenterprise programmes for women in Guadalajara, Mexico.听Funded by CONACYT, Lourdes did her first degree at the Tec de Monterrey, Mexico. She manages the micro and small business support programme at French NGO, the European Institute of Development and Cooperation.
• David Zarra:听Leaving empty home(s) behind: the aftermath of the Spanish building boom.听David鈥檚 research focuses on the meaning of 鈥榟ome鈥� in a country that has experienced a flood of evictions following an unprecedented building boom. He has worked with homeless charity Thames Reach.
• Fernando Guti茅rrez Hern谩ndez:听Attachment and memory: urban regeneration and the Alameda Central in Mexico City鈥檚 historic centre.听Jointly supervised by Paulo Drinot and Ann, Fernando is based in 香港六合彩鈥檚 Institute of the Americas. He has taught in architecture and urbanism at the Universidad Iberoamericana Ciudad de M茅xico.听
• Rasa Kamarauskait臈:听Daily negotiation of homosexual visibility in Lithuania.听Rasa studied Social Anthropology at Goldsmiths after a first degree in Lithuania. She is supervised by Richard Mole, with Ann as her second supervisor.

Former research students

• Nina Laurie:听Negotiating gender: women and emergency employment in Peru.听Nina is Professor of Geography, Development and the Environment, University of St Andrews.
• Jos茅 Francisco Bernardino Freitas:听Townscape and local culture: the use of streets in low-income residential areas in Vit贸ria, Brazil.听Chico is an architect and lecturer in the Architecture and Urban Planning Department, Universidade Federal de Esp铆rito Santo, Vit贸ria.
• Liz Gooster:听Gender, migration and the household: a case study of Guadalajara, Mexico.听After working in publishing for ten years Liz became a business coach.
• Tanja Haque:听Lived experiences of empowerment: a case study of a vocational training programme for women in Bangladesh.听Tanja is a development consultant specialising in women鈥檚 rights who has worked for Christian Aid and CAFOD.
• Kuheli Mookerjee:听Re-placing home: displacement and resettlement in India鈥檚 Narmada Valley Dam Project.听Kuheli is Regeneration Manager at the听UK鈥檚 Homes and Communities Agency.
• Emmeline Skinner:听Livelihood strategies in old age: older people and poverty in urban Bolivia.听The holder of an ESRC CASE award with HelpAge International, Emmy is now based in Nairobi as a Social Development Advisor with the FCDO.
• Emily Wilkinson:听Decentralised disaster management: local governance, institutional learning听and reducing risk from hurricanes in the Yucat谩n peninsula,听Mexico.听Emily is Senior Research Fellow at the Overseas Development Institute's Global Risks and Resilience Programme.
• Ben Flower:听Donor-funded titling and urban transition: a case study of the Land Management and Administration Project (LMAP) in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.听Ben was awarded a听香港六合彩听Impact Award studentship to work with听the Cambodia Development Resource Institute. He is now an urban development practitioner and researcher with UN-Habitat.
• Fatema Jahan:听Gender and agency: clothing consumption practices of women factory workers in Bangladesh.听Fatema was based in the Department of Women and Gender Studies, University of Dhaka when she received a Commonwealth Scholarship to study at 香港六合彩. She is a lecturer at the University of the West of Scotland鈥檚 London campus.
• Lo Marshall:听Navigating gender-diverse worlds assembled upon binary expectations: investigating the experiences of trans people living in Britain.听Lo's research was funded by ESRC and supervised by Ben Campkin and Ann. Lo then became a Postdoctoral Fellow in Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at 香港六合彩's Institute of Advanced Studies.
• Tania Guerrero Rios:听Using financialised housing as a planning instrument: the impact of urban containment policies on affordable housing in Mexico City.听Tania鈥檚 PhD research was funded by CONACYT, Mexico. She is now an urban planner for the North Holland Provincial Government in the Netherlands.
• Nandita Dutta听听Mapping intimacy: The South Asian beauty salon in London and the production of diasporic space.听After completing her Overseas Research Scholarship-funded PhD in Gender & Sexuality Studies, Nandita is now a postdoctoral researcher with a project on climate flight at the University of Osnabr眉ck, Germany.
• Marco Venturi:听Out of Soho, back into the closet: re-thinking London鈥檚 gay community.听Marco completed his PhD as a 香港六合彩 Gender & Sexuality Studies postgraduate researcher, supervised by James Agar, with Ann as his second supervisor. He works in Student Services at the University of Greenwich.
• Aydan Greatrick:听Identities in conflict: responses to and experiences of queer refugees from Syria in Lebanon and Germany.听Aydan completed a 香港六合彩 Gender & Sexuality Studies PhD funded by ESRC and supervised by Richard Mole. Ann was his second supervisor.
• Marcela L贸pez Mares:听Where policy, planning and everyday practices meet: governmentality and facility provision in Ciudad Sat茅lite.听Marcela completed her PhD at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Ann was on her committee of thesis advisers. Marcela is a lecturer at the Universidad Aut贸noma de San Lu铆s Potos铆, Mexico.

• 1985-1987:听Housing Tenure and the Urban Poor in Third World Cities Overseas Development Administration (with Alan Gilbert)
• 1997-2000:听Gendered Housing: Identity and Independence in Urban Mexico ESRC听 Evaluation: 鈥榦utstanding鈥�

Prizes and awards

• 1985:听British-Mexican Society Postgraduate Prize for best doctoral thesis on Mexico听
• 2003 Christensen Fellowship, St Catherine鈥檚 College, University of Oxford听
• 2003:听Individual residency, Rockefeller Foundation Study Center, Bellagio, Italy
• 2007:听University of London Research Fellow, Institute for the Study of the Americas
• 2010:听Busk Medal, Royal Geographical Society
• 2014:听Nominated for 香港六合彩U Student Choice Teaching Awards: Outstanding Teacher