Professor Jude Howell
Jude Howell is the Director of the Centre for Civil Society, taking up her post in October 2003, and is also Director of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)'s Non-Governmental Public Action Research Programme.
Jude was formerly Team Leader of the Governance Research Team at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex. Her main research interests include civil society and governance, civil society/state relations, politics of policy-making, politics of international development policy and practice, anti-poverty policy, gender and political participation. Her country experience includes China, India, Mozambique and Central Asia.
Jude is also advisor on Central Asia Advisory Group to INTRAC, a UK international NGO. She has provided advice to range of UK and international development agencies including UNIDO, EU, Save the Children Fund, NEAD, ILO, UNDP and DFID.
See also: LSE Experts; Academic publications
Other papers
Presentations:
`Civil society in the UK and relevant to the Commonwealth’, Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, 18th May 2006
Witness submission on China to Foreign Affairs Committee, House of Commons, UK, March 8th 2006
Guest chair of debate on “Fair Trade: in whose interests?” on behalf of Burgess Hill and Brighton and Hove Fairtrade Town Steering Groups
`Migrant Workers in China’, Guest Seminar at Ethical Trading Initiative, February 2006
`Trade Union Elections in China. The Myth of Democratisation?` Guest Seminar at University of Bristol, January 2006
`Governance Challenges in China’, guest talk to China Development Society, LSE, February 2006
`Civil society in China’, guest talk to China Development Society, LSE, March 2005
`Women’s Organising in China’, plenary speech at Global Exchange Forum Conference on Understanding Women’s Social Capital, September 16th 2005
‘Gender, Community Development and Civil Society’, paper presented at INTRAC conference on Community Development: the Way Forward held in Jordan, April 2005
Panel speaker ‘Intolerance and Civil Society’, seminar series on Intolerance, Sociology Department, LSE, February 2005
Guest Lecture, ‘NGOs, Civil Society and Development in China’ China Development Society, LSE, March 2005
Reports:
DFID/ACWF, Report on Planning Future Research Activities of DFID/ACWF Partnership on Girl Adolescents' in China, December 2004, pp 1-19, (with Tony Davison)
UNDP, Governance report for Assessment of Development Results of UNDP China, August 2004
UNDP, Gender report for Assessment of Development Results of UNDP China, August 2004
Ford Foundation, workshop report, Reflections on Civil Society, China, October 2003
DFID, Civil Society Guidelines for DFID staff, 2002
DFID, Report on Civil society and advocacy in India, 2002
Contact details: email: J.A.Howell@lse.ac.uk; tel: 020 7955 7360; room A117;
Last updated: 26 May 2006 ^
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