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Master Class with Professor Jennifer Brinkerhoff

Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2014
Wolfson Exchange (3) in the Library
12.30- 1 pm: light lunch, sandwiches
1.00-2:30 pm: Teaching and Q&A session

Professor of Public Administration and International Affairs at George Washington University,
and Co-Director of the GW Diaspora Program

Professor Jennifer Brinkerhoff on Policy-relevant and Internet-based Research

Scholars often refer to 鈥減olicy-relevant research.鈥� What does that mean? What does it look like? How do we identify policy-relevant questions? I will provide an overview of my own research agenda and discuss where and how policy-relevant research questions may emerge. I will provide some guidelines for what policy relevant research might look like鈥攑roducts and components of products. I will end this portion of my talk with some cautionary remarks about committing to policy-relevant research.

In the second portion of my talk, I will speak specifically to research methodology for understanding online communities and for drawing from Internet-based data more generally. I will draw from my research experience from my book Digital Diaspora: Identity and Transnational Engagement (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009), which explicitly focused on online communities. I will also discuss more general issues pertaining to online data sources, drawing from my more recent research for my book (under review), The In-Between Advantage: Diaspora Entrepreneurs and Institutional Reform.

Open to PAIS MA, Ph.D. Students, and post-docs on a first come first serve basis. There are 25 places available.

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Once the class is full, please email Dr Maria Koinova: m.koinova@warwick.ac.uk to be placed on a waiting list.

Professor Jennifer Brinkerhoff, Professor of Public Administration and International Affairs;
Co-Director, GW Diaspora Program (George Washington University)

3.30pm Refreshements

4pm Seminar

Professor Brinkerhoff is specialist in international development, governance, public-private partnerships, NGOs, and diaspora politics. Her publications include six books, three co-edited journal issues, and over fifty articles and book chapters on topics ranging from policy evaluation, to NGOs, failed states, governance, diaspora identity, development, and citizenship. She is the author of Digital Diasporas: Identity and Transnational Engagement (Cambridge University Press, 2009) and Partnership for International Development: Rhetoric or Results? (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2002); the editor of Diasporas and Development: Exploring the Potential (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2008); and co-editor of NGOs and the Millennium Development Goals: Citizen Action to Reduce Poverty (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2007).

Dr. Maria Koinova