School of International Development- UEA: Social identities, institutions and justice

Social Identities, Institutions and Justice is a confederation of research themes in the broad area of social and political development which have overlapping membership, objectives, research projects and research student supervision. We encourage integration at this level in order to ensure the permeability of knowledge and avoid research ‘silos’, and to facilitate the progression and development of researcher’s interests. What we share is an enduring interest in social and relational understandings of human wellbeing, reference points in social and political theory and methods, brought into inter-disciplinary engagement and multi-method research, a commitment to more equitable development processes and outcomes.

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We see social identities, such as gender or age, as critical in the experience of social change, social institutions, such as religious organisations, states, or NGOs, as key analytical foci and mediators of development processes, and social justice in development as the objective which drives all of our research engagements, and finds particular focus in our research on rights, conflict, and governance.

The following research themes are part of ‘Social Identities, Institutions and Justice’:

Ageing and Development 

Gender and Development

Other research in DEV focuses on religion, the role of NGOs and civil society institutions, indigenous peoples’ rights and social movements. 

For information on research projects in ageing and development click here.

For information on research projects in gender and development click here.

Other current and recent research projects

Ben Jones currently researches patterns of political development and social differentiation in the Igbo-speaking part of south-eastern Nigeria.  He looks at ways in which economic and social inequalities are mediated or entrenched through different institutions, such as relatively new organisational structures (vigilante groups, Pentecostal churches, hometown associations) as well as older mechanisms of insurance and social obligation. His work is part-funded by the Danish Social Science Research Council and is supported by Roskilde University in Denmark and the Institute of African Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka in Nigeria.

Natalia Alvarez Molinero has been involved in a research project on Indigenous Peoples’ Rights in Latin America. This interdisciplinary project coordinated by the University of Girona analyses the relationship between indigenous rights and public policies in different Latin American countries.

roup members

Sheila Aikman
Natalia Alvarez Molinero
Vasudha Chhotray
Colette Harris
Cecile Jackson
Ben Jones
Peter Lloyd-Sherlock
Catherine Locke
Bryan Maddox
Daniel McAvoy
Jonathan Pattenden
Nitya Rao
Steve Russell
Martin Scott
Janet Seeley
Alexandra Winkels