14:15
Birkbeck, University of London
November 27
Online
When: — Venue: Online
Guest lecture for the Birkbeck Criminology Seminar Series
Contact name: Sappho Xenakis
SpeakersCaryn Peiffer is Associate Professor in International Public Policy in the School for Policy Studies. Caryn’s research examines the measurement and consequences of different forms of corruption, as well as the intended and unintended impacts of specific anticorruption efforts. She has conducted research in several countries including Zambia, Botswana, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Uganda, South Africa, Nigeria and Albania. She has expertise in the design of surveys that ask about organised crime and corruption. Of recent interest to her work is how to communicate to the public about polices meant to tackle ‘public bads’ like corruption or organised crime, without having unwanted and unintended impacts. She regularly advises a range of policy actors, including national country governments, international organisations and civil society.
Nic Cheeseman is Professor of Democracy at the University of Birmingham. Formerly the Director of the African Studies Centre at Oxford University, he is the Founding Director of Birmingham’s Centre for Elections, Democracy, Accountability and Representation (CEDAR). He mainly works on democracy, elections and development, and his work has attracted a wide array of awards, including the prestigious Joni Lovenduski Prize of the UK Political Studies Association and the Celebrating Impact prize of the Economic and Social Research Council. One of his current areas of research is on understanding and supporting democratic resilience in an era of autocratisation.
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