Shailen Nandy
- Research Associate - BA (Hons), MSc (Econ), PhD
- Centre for the Study of Poverty and Social Justice
- Tel: +44 (0)117 9546777
- Email: S.Nandy@bristol.ac.uk
Personal profile
Shailen is a member of the Townsend Centre for International Poverty Research. He recently completed his PhD which looked at changes in the extent and nature of child poverty in the developing world at the end of the twentieth century. He recently worked as a consultant to UNICEF on its Global Study on Child Poverty and Disparities (http://unicefglobalstudy.blogspot.com) and acted as a consultant to various international organisations, like the WHO, the Christian Children’s Fund and the UK Department for International Development.
Teaching interests
Shailen has lectured on the MSc Policy Research and MSc Public Policy programmes, on the subjects of child poverty, child health and international development.
Research interests
Child poverty; undernutrition; poverty measurement; international development; health inequalities; survey analysis.
Research projects
Current
Completed
- Haiti child poverty analysis (2009)
- Global study on child poverty and disparities (2008)
- Analysing the 1998 NFHS data in India (2002)
- Poverty reduction begins with children: identifying priorities (2002)
- Review of information on the health of travellers in the South West region (2001)
- An integrated approach to injuries in the household: Literature review and conceptual development paper (2000)