Researcher profile - Colette Harris

Colette Harris
Institute of Development Studies
University of Sussex
Brighton BN1 9RE

tel: (0044) (0)1273 872561

email: c.harris@ids.ac.uk

Biography

Colette focuses on issues of gender identities, youth empowerment, public and reproductive health, violence and conflict, as well as on transformative, discovery-based educational methodologies. She joined the Participation, Power and Social Change team at IDS in 2005, before which she worked as gender specialist for international development in Virginia Tech in the US and as a researcher at the Universiteit van Amsterdam. Colette has worked in Africa ( Ethiopia , Mali , Senegal , Sierra Leone, and Uganda ), Asia ( Bangladesh, the Philippines, Tajikistan), and Latin America (Ecuador, Mexico), carrying out research, evaluations, and training local development agents in gender issues and non-formal teaching methodologies.

Projects

Project - Bringing young people out of violence into Citizenship – part of 'Violence, Participation and Citizenship' Research Programme

Summary - The aim of this research to develop an action research approach which involves the setting up of a youth group in a community in Kaduna State , Nigeria to reduce interpersonal and community level violence simultaneously with (re)-incorporating themselves as citizens into their community.

Research Proposal

Latest Publications

Harris, C., (2004), Control and Subversion: Gender Relations in Tajikistan , London and Sterling , VA / Ann Arbor , MI : Pluto Press and Michigan University Press

Harris, C., (2006), Muslim Youth: Tensions and Transitions in Tajikistan, Westview Case Studies in Anthropology, Boulder, CO: Westview Press

Forthcoming

Harris, C., ‘How deconstructing gender identities could contribute to the solution of difficult development problems: case studies on poverty and the transmission of HIV/AIDS’ in Consolata Kabonesa (ed) Constructing and Deconstructing Gender Identities: Cross Cultural Dynamics, Kampala : Makerere University