Elizabeth RILEY

e.riley@dpu-associates.net

Specialisation

The formulation and management of low-income housing and poverty alleviation policies, programmes and projects; inter-sectoral communication and partnership building; service and infrastructure delivery; community-based participatory processes; diversity and equality

Country experience

India, Brazil, Mexico, Kenya, Sri Lanka, Nigeria, UK

Languages

English (mother tongue), Portuguese (fluent), Spanish (basic)

Educational and professional qualifications

2002-04

Certificate Basic Editing, Publishing Training Centre, London (pass with merit)

1994-2000

PhD Planning Studies, Development Planning Unit, University of London

1997-98

Modular courses: Research Methodology (distinction); Survey Methods (distinction); Qualitative Methods (distinction); Data Description and Analysis (pass), University of North London

1989-90

MA Area Studies: Latin America, Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London

1986-89

BA Hons Geography (1st class), Portsmouth Polytechnic

EMPLOYMENT

2003-present

Independent researcher and editor. Research work for Dumfries and Galloway Council; Cities Alliance; University of Westminster; Greengage Consulting. Copy-editing of books and journals on microfinance, water, sanitation, conflict, disaster management, energy policy and NGO accountability for Practical Action Publishing, Earthscan and Oxford University Press.

2000-03

Lecturer in social policy and Director of MSc in International Housing Studies, Development Planning Unit, University College London. Lecturer, designing and teaching MSc modules on Social Policy and Theory, Housing Policy and Theory, and The Practice of Housing Projects and Programmes. Supervisor of PhD theses and MSc dissertations. Management of research teams and authorship of final products for ‘Building Urban Partnerships: Communities and Communication in Nairobi, Colombo and Rio de Janeiro’, funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID).

1998-2000

Research Fellow, DPU. Fieldwork, data analysis and authorship of final reports for ‘Poverty Alleviation and Environmental Upgrading through Favela Bairro in Rio de Janeiro’, funded by the UK Department for International Development; and for ‘Community Learning, Information and Communication in India’, 1998-99, funded by the UK Department for International Development.

1993-94

Research Assistant, Mega-Cities Project, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Research for, compilation of and management of database of innovative urban development initiatives.

1992-93

Research Assistant, Mega-Cities Project, Mexico City. Research for, compilation of and management of database of innovative urban development initiatives.

1991-92

Project assistant ANADEGES, Mexico City - rural development NGO.

RESEARCH

Designing and submitting research proposals, winning contracts, managing projects, undertaking fieldwork, data analysis and production of outputs of projects, including:

2010

Research on diversity and equality for Dumfries and Galloway County Council, Scotland (subcontracted by Consult Stirling, Manchester), producing report on social diversity and equality, including, gender, age, religion, ethnicity, disability and sexual orientation.

2009

Desk research and joint preparation of ‘The Case for Incremental Housing’ DPU-Associates for Cities Alliance, Washington DC.

2008

Desk research and authorship of background report on Kaduna city, Nigeria, for University of Westminster’s technical cooperation programme with the Government of Nigeria for middle-sized city master plans, November 2008.

2005

Desk research and joint authorship of ‘Inclusive Communities. Identifying practical techniques and disciplines of participatory governance in poor urban communities’ for Greengage Consulting, Ambleside, March 2005.

2000-04

Management of research teams and authorship of final products for ‘Building Urban Partnerships: Communities and Communication in Nairobi, Colombo and Rio de Janeiro’, funded by the Department for International Development.

1999-2000

Fieldwork, data analysis and authorship of final reports for ‘Poverty Alleviation and Environmental Upgrading through Favela Bairro in Rio de Janeiro’, funded by the Department for International Development.

1998-99

Fieldwork, data analysis and authorship of final reports for ‘Community Learning, Information and Communication in India’, funded by the Department for International Development.

Committee membership

1999-2002

Co-coordinator of the Network Association of European Researchers on Urbanisation in the South (NAERUS).