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Professor Hazel Johnson BA (LSE), Dip. Soc. Admin. (LSE), MSc Sociology with Politics (University of London), PhD (Open) Development Policy and Practice Phone number: + 44 (0)1908 655124 Position: Professor of Development Policy and Practice and Head of Department Biography: Hazel Johnson has a background in Sociology, Social Administration and Development Studies. She has interests in social learning for development, rural livelihoods and action on livelihoods. Her research interests have taken her to Central America, Zimbabwe and Uganda. She is co-editor of the Journal of International Development and a Council Member of the Development Studies Association (DSA). She led the organisation of the DSA Conference at the Open University in 2005. Teaching: Hazel Johnson has been a core member of teams creating DPP’s undergraduate courses in Development Studies and has contributed to teaching on households, rural livelihoods, and action and organization on poverty, gender and inequality. She was one of the first directors of the MSc in Development Management, and, earlier, chaired its first core course, Capacities for Managing Development. During that time she initiated Development Management Worldwide, a scheme to enable people to study the Masters degree in most parts of the world, and is currently developing other schemes for international study. Hazel Johnson chairs a course on Institutional Development, and is presently member of the team delivering a new MSc course on education in development. Research interests: Hazel Johnson has researched food security in Honduras, Central America, and has participated in a DfID-funded project on gender and rural labour markets, risks and incentives, coordinated by Sheffield and Cambridge Universities. She has also researched knowledge and social learning for institutional change, including projects on active learning and social inclusion in environment and development in Zimbabwe (with Gordon Wilson); the impacts of educational programmes in development policy and management on course participants and their organizations in Southern Africa and the UK (with Alan Thomas); and learning and knowledge transfer in North-South municipal partnerships (with Gordon Wilson). She was part of a consortium of researchers in Europe and Africa analysing the potential of using electronic distance training for promoting learning and action on sustainability in African local government. This gave rise to a recent pilot project on the use of ICTs for communities of practice in Uganda (with Gordon Wilson). She has supervised doctoral students in the institutionalization of educational change; ethnicity and organization; institutionalizing norms and values on gender in development; knowledge transfer in development consultancy. She currently supervises research on: social learning, collective action and innovation; ICTs and gender equality in development; teachers’ lives in rural Sub-Saharan Africa; young people's engagement with co-operatives in Africa; gender; climate change and forest-based communities. Selected Publications:
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