Deborah Bryceson is a development consultant, researcher, academic and project manager. Trained as an economic geographer and sociologist, her work has spanned a wide range of development issues within Africa and beyond. Her areas of expertise include: livelihood, mobility and settlement; agrarian development; the impact of AIDS; gender; and the interaction between social and economic dynamics in rural and urban settings from a political economy perspective.
Deborah Bryceson is currently a research associate at the African Studies Centre, St. Antony’s College, Oxford, and the International Gender Studies Centre, International Development Centre, Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford University, as well as the Geography Institute, Copenhagen University. At the latter she coordinates the ‘Tanzanian Frontier Settlements, Livelihoods and Mobility’ research project studying three fast-growing mining and trading settlements in northwestern Tanzania in collaboration with the University of Dar es Salaam.
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Participation in Policy Practice Projects
Policy Practice Papers
Experience outside The Policy Practice
Serving on research programme advisory committee ‘African Food Crisis – Relevance of Asian Models (AFRINT)’ a programme involving research teams in several African countries coordinated by Lund University, Sweden - 2001 - 2006
Serving on research programme advisory committee ‘Moral Economy of African Rural Societies’ research programme, Japanese inter-university collaborative research programme coordinated by Kinki University, Japan - 2004 - 2006
Serving on research programme advisory committee for ‘Linking Livelihoods, Natural Resource Governance and Environmental Sustainability in East and Southern Africa’ research programme, Nordic Africa Institute, Sweden - 2004 - 2006
Social science consultant to TRL Crowthorne UK / DFID on a research project entitled ‘Social Benefits and Costs of Rural Roads,’ 2002 - 2004
- Paper: ‘Framework for the Inclusion of Social Benefits in Transport Planning: Final Report’, Bryceson, D.F., A. Davis and F. Ahmed, TRL/DFID, 2004.
Consultant to the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, DGIS and Ceres, ‘DGIS Agricultural Project Review related to Natural Resource Management, Water Management and Agriculture in light of the Sector-Wide Approach,’ - 2004
- Paper: ‘The Sector Wide Approach in Rural Development: Finding Ways to Alleviate Poverty and Promote Ecological Sustainability’, van Dijk, H., D. Bryceson, P. Howard, J. Oorthuizen and A. Zoomers CERES/DGIS, The Hague, April 2004.
Team Leader for Malawi, ‘Social Pathways Research’ study on poverty and HIV/AIDS. For Care International - 2004
- Paper: Social Pathways from the HIV/AIDS Deadlock of Disease, Denial and Desperation in Rural Malawi’, Bryceson, D.F., J. Fonseca, and J. Kadzandira, CARE International, May 2004
Published book entitled 'Disappearing Peasantries: Rural Labour in Africa, Asia and Latin America', London, IT Publications - 2001
Consultant to TRL Crowthorne / DFID on a research project entitled ‘Sustainable Livelihoods, Mobility and Access Needs’ directed at investigation of the utility of the sustainable livelihoods approach in identifying the mobility and accessibility needs of the poor, with specific reference to rural-urban linkages - 2001
- Paper: Sustainable Livelihoods, Mobility and Access Needs,’ Bryceson, D.F., D.A.C. Maunder, T.C. Mbara, R. Kibombo, A.S.C. Davis and J. Howe 2003, TRL Report 544
Consultant to the World Bank/International Institute for Infrastructure, Hydraulics and Environmental Engineering, Delft on a ‘World Bank Urban Transport Strategy Review: Poverty and Urban Transport,’ - 2000
- Paper: Poverty and Urban Transport in East Africa: Review of Research and Dutch Donor Experience,’ Report: Howe, J. with D.F. Bryceson 2000, Institute of Infrastructural, Hydraulics and Environmental Engineering, Delft consultancy report submitted to the World Bank
Consultant to DGIS, Development Cooperation Division, Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs offering comments and criticism of a World Bank publication - 2000
- Paper: Bryceson, D.F. 2000, ‘Poverty and Power: Review of World Bank 2000, Can Africa Claim the 21st Century’, Leiden, Afrika-Studiecentrum
