IDPM, University of Manchester

This DFID funded research project aimed at investigating the quality and relevance of vocational education and training provided by Nigerian Vocational and Technical Institutions (namely Polytechnics). A related aim of the investigation is to assess the extent to which the educational and training provided by the polytechnics actually contributes to employability of graduates and, skills needs of the Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). The study is undertaken against the backdrop of the growing poverty and youth unemployment in the country. It is hoped that the outcome of the study will provide information to policy-makers and stakeholders to make informed decisions on issues pertaining to poverty, skills needs of SMEs, and youth unemployment.

Contact Details
Dr Philip Woodhouse
Email: idpm@man.ac.uk
Phone: + 44 (0) 161 275 2800
Fax: +44 (0) 161 273 8829

Thankom Arun
tg.arun@man.ac.uk
Development finance; trade and industrial policy; information and communication technology; foreign direct investment; privatisation; competition and regulation.

Armando Barrientos
armando.barrientos@man.ac.uk
Public economics; public policy and development; labour market and social sector reforms; pensions; health insurance; economics of ageing and development; social protection and labour market institutions.

Anthony Bebbington
anthony.bebbington@man.ac.uk
Rural development and rural livelihoods; NGOs; social movements and indigenous organisations; policy processes within development bureaucracies; political ecology; the World Bank.

Sarah Bracking
sarah.bracking@man.ac.uk
Politics and development; international political economy; democratisation and governance; development policy and public policy; southern African political change; politics of poverty reduction.

Paul Cook
paul.cook@man.ac.uk
Director: Centre on Regulation and Competition. Public enterprise economics; privatisation; competition and regulation; enterprise development.

Jocelyn Dejong
jocelyn.dejong@man.ac.uk
Social development; social sector policy; health and development; population and reproductive rights; HIV/AIDS; social sector reform and its consequences; the role of non-governmental organisations in social development.

Richard Duncombe
richard.duncombe@man.ac.uk
Information technology and development; information systems, e-commerce and enterprise development; self-regulation and ethical trade; science and technology policy in developing countries; technology and industrialisation; small enterprise development; t

Derek Eldridge
derek.eldridge@man.ac.uk
Human resource development; institutional analysis for performance improvement; local capacity building through learner-centred approaches; public service development; effectiveness of regulatory agencies.

Clive George
clive.george@man.ac.uk
(Research Fellow) Integrated impact assessment; sustainability impact assessment; trade impact assessment; environmental assessment; strategic environmental assessment; sustainability criteria; institutional strengthening for environmental management in d

Richard Heeks
richard.heeks@man.ac.uk
Information systems; e-governance; knowledge management; information resource management; information technology industries; small enterprise development; trade and industrial policy.

Sam Hickey
sam.hickey@man.ac.uk
Politics of development; urban poverty and street children; social movements and civil society; NGOs and participatory development.

Jeffrey Henderson
jeffrey.henderson@man.ac.uk
Political economy of globalisation; states and economic and social development; economic governance and inequality; business networks; technology and industrialisation; urbanisation; economic ideas and economic policy.

David Hulme
david.hulme@man.ac.uk
Director, Chronic Poverty Research Centre Rural development policy and planning; poverty reduction strategies; finance for the poor; sociology of development; role of community organisations and NGOs; evaluation of technical assistance; environmental man

Colin Kirkpatrick
colin.kirkpatrick@man.ac.uk
Development economics; development finance; privatisation and regulation policy; environmental economics and policy; impact assessment and sustainable development.

Uma Kothari
uma.kothari@man.ac.uk
Social development, gender and development; agrarian change and rural development; processes of migration; industrialisation and export-processing zones; history and theories of development; colonialism and development.

Willy McCourt
willy.mccourt@man.ac.uk
Human resource management; public management and public service reform; public employment reform; distance learning; personnel selection; training and development.

Aminu Mamman
aminu.mamman@man.ac.uk
Human resource management; small business management, international management; entrepreneurship; cross cultural management; management attitudes and behaviour.

Pete Mann
pete.mann@man.ac.uk
Human resources; organisation and management development; executive development and corporate diagnosis through advanced psychometric questionnaires; action learning; action research; tacit knowledge and the development of practice.

Beverly Metcalfe
beverly.metcalfe@man.ac.uk
Human resource strategy in the public sector; gender organisation and management; international human resource development; feminist theory and globalisation, and international diversity.

Martin Minogue
martin.minogue@man.ac.uk
(Senior Research Fellow) Public policy systems and processes; public sector management reforms; governance; public service ethics; public service training; politics of regulation.

Alemayehu Molla
alemayehu.molla@man.ac.uk
Information Systems; eCommerce and eBusiness in developing countries; IT(IS) adoption and implementation; IT projects in the public sector; ICT and national development.

Chris Rees
chris.rees@man.ac.uk
Organisational behaviour and human resource management; selection and assessment of employees; assessment and management of occupational stress; design and administration of employee attitude surveys.

Harry Taylor
harry.taylor@man.ac.uk
Human resource management/development; employee relations; management in LDCs.

Sheila Vaughan
sheila.vaughan@man.ac.uk
Learning strategies and processes; training for trainers; development of library systems; human resource information systems.

Elisabeth Wilson
elisabeth.wilson@man.ac.uk
Gender and organisation; organisational culture audits; managing the diverse workforce; training evaluation; organisational behaviour; postcolonalism.

Philip Woodhouse
phil.woodhouse@man.ac.uk
Head of Institute. Local institutions and natural resource management; African farming systems; irrigation systems; environmental risk assessment and management in rural areas.

Karen Moore
karen.moore@man.ac.uk
(Research Associate) Chronic poverty; social development; intergenerational transmission of poverty; intrahousehold relations; gender; childhood; livelihoods approaches; rights-based approaches; informal and micro-finance.

Sarah Mosedale
sarah.mosedale@man.ac.uk
(Project Research Officer) Gender and development; empowerment; impact assessment.

Richard Phillips
rphillips@man.mbs.ac.uk
(Research Associate) Global production networks; organisational behaviour; organisational analysis; regulation and competition; economic governance; international political economy; development administration; social policy; corporate social responsibilit

Serban Silviu Scrieciu
silviu.s.scrieciu@stud.man.ac.uk
(Research Assistant) Macroeconomics; transition economies, sustainable development.

Yuichiro Uchida
yuichiro.uchida@man.ac.uk
(Research Associate) Economic growth; productivity growth; international trade; technological change and innovation; competition and regulation.

Yin-Fang Zhang
yin-fang.zhang@man.ac.uk
(Research Associate) Regulation; privatisation; corporate governance.