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Gordon Crawford is a Research Professor in Global Development at the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations at Coventry University, United Kingdom. He has a B.A. in Sociology, an M.A. in Development Studies and a Ph.D. in Politics from the University of Leeds. He joined Coventry University in October 2015 after teaching and researching at the University of Leeds from 1993, where he was Professor of Development Politics. He was previously Director of the Centre for Global Development (CGD) at Leeds. His research examines issues of human rights, democracy and development, especially in countries of the Global South, and he has undertaken extensive fieldwork in Ghana. His current research includes work on natural resource politics and on social movement struggles for right-based development. Recent publications include Human Rights, Power and Civic Action (co-edited with Bård A. Andreassen) (2013). He is an Editorial Group member of the journal Africa Spectrum.

Lena J. Jaspersen is a University Academic Fellow in Innovation Management at the University of Leeds. As an early career researcher with a multidisciplinary background in international sociology and organization studies, her research interests have focused on the collaborative research and innovation. Part of her role as an Academic Fellow is to develop a portfolio of research projects; hers relate to sustainability and health partnerships.

Lena’s background brings both an international and an interdisciplinary dimension to her research. She holds Masters’ degrees in Sociology (University of Bielefeld, Germany) and International Relations (Keele University, UK) and was awarded a PhD with Recommendation of Research Excellence from the University of Leeds (UK). Her doctoral research focused on the role of cross-sector partnerships in creating low-carbon development pathways. The results provided a critical analysis of how partnerships can facilitate but also inhibit the adoption of off-grid renewable energy technologies in Central America. Lena has a strong interest in research methods, particularly working on participatory methods and visual tools that can enhance the collection of both qualitative and quantitative network data (recent methods article in British Journal of Management). Together with colleagues, she has conducted research on global development and published an interdisciplinary volume on conducting field research in development contexts (Understanding Global Development Research, Sage, 2017). She has also published an organizational ethnography of the work of the oldest UN human rights treaty monitoring body, the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (The UN-real World of Human Rights, Nomos, 2012).

Nicholas Loubere is a contemporary Sinologist and a Development Studies scholar whose research focuses on patterns and processes of local socioeconomic development in China. Currently, he is involved in projects examining the implementation and outcomes of microcredit programmes in rural China; the organisation and management of Chinese cooperatives; the provision and utilisation of internet finance in China; and Chinese migration to Africa. He is also the co-chief editor of www.chinoiresie.info. Before joining the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies at Lund University, Nicholas was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Australian Centre on China in the World at the Australian National University. Nicholas completed a Ph.D. in East Asian Studies at the University of Leeds, an M.A. in International Relations at Xiamen University and a B.A. in English Literature at Northern Illinois University.

Rosemary Morgan is an Assistant Scientist at Johns Hopkins’ Bloomberg School of Public Health on the project ‘Research in Gender and Ethics (RinGs): Building Stronger Health Systems’. Prior to joining Johns Hopkins University, Rosemary was a Lecturer in Global Health Policy for the Global Public Health Unit at the University of Edinburgh, and a Research and Teaching Fellow at the Nuffield Centre for International Health and Development at the University of Leeds, where she worked on two international health projects: ‘Health System Stewardship and Regulation in Vietnam, India and China’ (HESVIC); and the ‘Consortium for Health Policy and Systems Analysis in Africa’ (CHEPSAA). She holds a Ph.D. in International Health and Development from the University of Leeds, an M.Sc. in Policy Studies from the University of Edinburgh, and a B.A. in Sociology from the University of British Columbia.