Ms Helen Poulsen

  • Qualifications and position:
    • Teaching And Research Assistant
  • Faculty:
    • Faculty of Policy and Society
  • Department:
  • Summary:
    • I teach on the MA Education, Gender and International Development. My special interests are gender and community participation. My background is as a researcher and consultant for a range of international organisations in Africa, South Asia and China.
  • Teaching:
    • Teaching on MA Education, Gender and International Development.
  • Research Projects:
    • Currently conducting doctoral research into community participation in policy and practice in Nigeria.
  • Professional Activities:
    • Consultancy and advisory work for NGOs and international organisations including DfID, UNICEF, ADB, Save the Children, Oxfam and ActionAid. Current work includes advising on a Service Delivery Perception Survey for DfID Sierra Leone; Transforming Girls' Education Project in Tanzania and Nigeria for ActionAid. Convenor of thematic section 'The Impact of Education For All Policies on Communities' at the 10th UKFIET international conference on education and development, Oxford, 15-17 September 2009.
  • Conferences/presentations:
    • 'Changing education, changing girls?' African Childhood in Transition workshop, British Academy, 26th April 2008.
  • Personal Country Knowledge:
    • Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Nepal, China, Malawi, Nigeria, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Sierra Leone.
  • Languages Spoken:
    • Danish, German, French.
  • Research Students:
    • Research interests include gender and community participation in the field of education and international development.
 

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Publications

  • Poulsen, H. (2006) 'The gendered impact of HIV/AIDS on education in South Africa and Swaziland: Save the Children UK's experiences', Gender and Development 14(1),
  • Poulsen, H. (2003) 'Turning it around?: Debating approaches to gender and North - South learning' in S. Benjamin, S. Ali and M. L. Mauthner, The politics of gender and education: critical perspectives. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Poulsen, H. with Norton, A et al. (2000) Mainstreaming Gender through Sector Wide Approaches in Education: Synthesis report. ODI/CEC.