Dr Sarah Bradshaw

Principal Lecturer, Third World and Development Studies

Department: Health and Social Sciences

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Qualifications

PhD MA BA (Hons)

Research Interests

Gender and development; Poverty and poverty reduction strategies (PRSPs); Rights and rights based approaches; Gender roles and relations within households; NGOs, social movements and civil society; Gendered post-disaster relief and reconstruction interventions; Edutainment and Social Soaps; Central and South America.

Teaching Interests

Development theories; the International Financial Institutions; Development policy and policy evaluation; Civil society, social movements and NGOs; Poverty and poverty reduction strategies; Gender roles and relations; Post-disaster relief and reconstruction.

Biography

Curriculum/subject area

Undergraduate Teaching:
Level 1 DEV1001 The Construction of the Third World
Level 2 DEV2001 Development in Theory and Practice (Module co-ordinator)
Level 3 DEV3001 Development Policy Seminars (Module co-ordinator)
Level 3 DEV3050 Disasters and Development (Module co-ordinator)
Postgraduate Teaching:

DEV4001 Development Theories and Approaches (Module co-ordinator)
DEV4056 Disaster Mitigation in the Development Context (Module co-ordinator)
Current work administrative and professional duties/roles

Programme Leader BA Development Studies programmes
Research Degree Co-ordinator - Social Sciences
Dissertation module coordinator - Development Studies and Politics
Selected Publications

Peer-reviewed journal articles
Bradshaw, S with Quiroacute;s Viacute;quez, A (2008) 'Women Beneficiaries or Women Bearing the Cost? A gendered analysis of the Red de Proteccioacute;n Social in Nicaragua' in Development and Change, 39(5), 823-844
Bradshaw, Sarah (2008) 'From Structural Adjustment to Social Adjustment: A Gendered Analysis of Conditional Cash Transfer Programmes in Mexico and Nicaragua' Global Social Policy, 8:2, 188- 207
Bradshaw, Sarah (2006) 'Is the rights focus the right focus? Considerations of the utility of the Rights Based Approach for women's movements in Nicaragua' Third World Quarterly 27:7, 1329-1341
Bradshaw, Sarah and Linneker, Brian (2003) 'Civil Society Responses to Poverty Reduction Strategies: The case of Nicaragua' Progress in Development Studies, 3:2, 146-157
Bradshaw, Sarah (2002) 'Exploring the gender dimensions of reconstruction processes post-hurricane Mitch' Journal of International Development 14, 871 -879
Bradshaw, Sarah (2001) 'Reconstructing Roles and Relations: Women's participation in reconstruction in post-Mitch Nicaragua' Gender and Development, 9:3, 79 - 87

Chapters in books
Bradshaw, Sarah, Castillo, Vilma, Criquillion, Ana and Wilson, Goya (2008) 'Women Mobilising to Defend Abortion Rights in Nicaragua: Is therapeutic abortion the wrong right to promote?' in Maitrayee Mukhopadhya (ed) Gender, Rights and Development. Gender, Society and Development series, Royal Tropical Institute: Amsterdam, 57 - 68
Bradshaw, Sarah (2007) 'Is the Rights Focus the Right Focus? Nicaraguan responses to the rights agenda' in Maxine Molyneux and Andrea Cornwall (eds) The Politics of Rights: Dilemmas for Feminist Praxis. Routledge: London, 155 -167
Bradshaw, Sarah, Linneker, Brian and Quiroacute;s Viacute;quez, Ana (2003) 'Las mujeres en Nicaragua, la pobreza y como se pretende reducirla' Paper published in GTZ (2003) Reduccioacute;n de la Pobreza, Gobernabilidad Democraacute;tica y Equidad de Genero, Tomo I, Servicios Graacute;ficos TMC, Managua, Nicaragua, 197 -212.
Bradshaw, Sarah, Linneker, Brian and Zuniga, Rebeca (2002) 'Social Roles and Spatial Relations of NGOs and Civil Society' in Cathy McIlwaine and Katie Willis (eds) Challenges and Change in Middle America: Perspectives on Development in Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean. Pearson Education: Harlow, England, 243-269.
Bradshaw, Sarah (2001) 'Reconstructing Roles and Relations: Women's participation in reconstruction in post-Mitch Nicaragua'. In Caroline Sweetman (ed.) Gender, development and Humanitarian Work, Oxfam: Oxford, 79-87.

Monographs and Books
Bradshaw, Sarah and Linneker, Brian (2003) Challenging Women's Poverty: Perspectives on gender and poverty reduction strategies from Nicaragua and Honduras / Desafiando la pobreza: Perspectivas de genero y estrategias para la reduccion de la pobreza en Nicaragua y Honduras, CIIR-ICD Briefing, CIIR-ICD London. ISBN 1-85287-302-7
Bradshaw, Sarah (2002) Gendered Poverties and Power Relations: Looking inside communities and households / La pobreza no es la misma ni es igual: Relaciones de poder dentro y fuera del hogar. Puntos de Encuentro: Managau, Nicaragua (bilingual publication). ISBN 99924-0-198-2 Available: http://www.undp.org/povertycentre/publications/gender/Gendered_Poverties_andPowerRelations-Nicaragua-Bradshaw-Sept.pdf
Bradshaw, Sarah (2001) Dangerous Liaisons: Women, Men and Hurricane Mitch / Relaciones Peligrosas: Mujeres, Hombres y el Mitch. Puntos de Encuentro: Managau, Nicaragua (bilingual publication). ISBN 99924-0-128-1

Published Reports
Bradshaw, Sarah (2004) Socio-economic Impacts of Natural Disasters: A gender analysis United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) Serie Manuales 32. Available: http://www.unifem.org/campaigns/tsunami/documents/ECLAC_gender_analysis.pdf
Bradshaw, Sarah with Arenas, Aacute;ngeles (2004) Anaacute;lisis de geacute;nero en la evaluacioacute;n de los efectos socioeconoacute;micos de los desastres naturales Comisioacute;n Econoacute;mica para Ameacute;rica Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), Serie Manuales 33. Available: http://www.aprchile.cl/pdfs/genero_desatres_cepal.pdf
Bradshaw, Sarah, Quiroacute;s Viacute;quez, Ana, and Linneker, Brian (2004) Gender Mainstreaming in Poverty Reduction Strategies. CISAS: Nicaragua
Bradshaw, Sarah, Solorzano, Irela and Bank, Amy (2007) 'The changing nature of change: A Nicaraguan feminist experience'. Proceedings of the World Congress on Communication for Development, Rome, October 2006

Recent Conference papers
Invited panellist: 'Reclaiming Feminisms' Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, 9th - 10th July 2007
Invited speaker: 'Central America: Challenged transition?', Institute for the Study of the Americas/Chatham House, 14th -15th June 2007
Symposium: 'Crisis of Representation', Annual conference of the Society for Latin American Studies, Newcastle University, April 2007
Invited discussant: 'Multi-level Governance in Transnational Politics' Kassel University, Germany, November 2006
Panellist: 'Feminist Perspectives on Rights-Based Development', Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex September 2006
Invited participant: 'World Congress on Communication for Development', Organised by the World Bank, FAO and The Communication Initiative, Rome, October 2006
Invited panellist: 'Learning from Latin American Social Policy Reforms', Birkbeck College, University of London, May 2006
Invited panellist: 'Feminist Perspectives on Rights-Based Development', Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex September 2006
Symposium: 'Los Objetivos de Desarrollo del Milenio: iquest;Valen la pena involucrarse?' Foro Social de las Americas, Quito, Ecuador, March 2004
Plenary speaker: 'Grassroots initiatives and best practice', Gender Equality and Risk Reduction Conference, Honolulu, Hawai'i, August 2004
Symposium: 'Overcoming Rights Non-compliance in PRSPs', World Social Forum, Mumbai, India, January 2004

Research supervision
Lee Bosher 'Social institutions and their influence on the reduction of vulnerability in cyclone and flood prone areas of coastal Andhra Pradesh, India' (Awarded 2005)
Tracey Coates 'Place, identity and mobility: Community responses to disasters' (Research Student Tutorship)
Sharon Marrinan 'Incorporating gender consciousness into HIV prevention education (sexual transmission) for immigrants to the UK'. (ESRC 1+3 quota award)
Sophie Ball 'The political significance of grassroots activism with particular reference to initiatives to 'reclaim the Commons'

Selected public presentations
Invited speaker on the panel 'The consolidation of democracy' at the Central American Forum, hosted by Canning House and supported by the Office of Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and the Embassies of Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, 12th - 15th November, 2007
'Gender, Poverty and the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative' at meeting organised by the All Party Parliamentary Group on HIPC with Patricia Hewitt, Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, House of Commons, March 2004
'Engendering Poverty Reduction Strategies in Central America' at meeting organised by International Cooperation for Development (ICD/CIIR) and chaired by John Battle, MP, House of Commons, June 2002.

Media experience
BBC Radio Four, 'Woman's Hour', 28th November 2005 (Gender based violence post disaster) Listen to the interview at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/2005_48_mon_02.shtml
BBC World Service, 'Reporting Religion' broadcast Sunday 10th November 2006 (Nicaraguan abortion law)
BBC Radio Four, 'Woman's Hour', November 13th 2006 (Change in government in Nicaragua) Listen to the interview at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/04/2006_46_mon.shtml
BBC World Service, 'Health Check' broadcast Monday 25th December 2006 (Nicaraguan abortion law)

External Links
For the last 10 years I have worked with Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) in Nicaragua sponsored by the British NGO Progression (http://www.progressio.org.uk/).
This has included work with the Civil Coordinator for Emergency and Reconstruction (CCER), a consortium of NGOs, groups and movements formed in response to hurricane Mitch in 1998 (http://www.ccer.org.ni/).
I continue to work closely with the Nicaragua feminist NGO, Puntos de Encuentro, on both their social communication initiatives (including a popular TV 'social soap') and training and research around women's rights. For more information see http://www.puntos.org.ni/

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