Catherine Grant

Experience

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  Institute of Development Studies

  Jun 2011 - now

  Researcher

  I am currently working an anthropological project focusing on pandemic preparedness with fieldwork in Uganda and Sierra Leone. The Pandemic Preparedness project (https://www.ids.ac.uk/programme-and-centre/pandemic-preparedness/) runs for four years and this research will highlight the importance of local perspectives to disease response which have not been fully recognised and supported in global discourses so far. The project will ask who is being prepared, for what, and by whom? A large part of the role is conducting ‘online ethnography’ and social media analysis.Past roles include undertaking original social science analysis and facilitating participatory modelling, supporting work across five African case studies to investigate drivers of disease for the Dynamic Drivers of Disease in Africa Consortium (https://steps-centre.org/project/drivers_of_disease/). I worked across the modelling group, linking participatory modelling to empirical and process modelling being carried out by others based at Cambridge, the Institute of Zoology and Edinburgh. My role also involved co-ordination, management and support across the Consortium, including the management of outputs, reporting and budgets, organising workshops, and policy influencing and impact analysis. I was also a core platform members of the Ebola Response Anthropology Platform (http://www.ebola-anthropology.net/) and was a researcher for HEART which delivers FCDO and other donors a fast, high-quality and adaptive technical assistance facility to help them achieve their strategic aid objectives in a challenging and changing world (https://www.heart-resources.org/). Show less

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  University of Brighton

  Jan 2019 - Jan 2019

  Lecturer for Global Social Policy at the University of Brighton, Hastings Campus