Dr Adrian Flint
BA(Hons), M.A.(Rhodes), Ph.D.(Dund.)
Expertise
Current positions
Senior Lecturer in Development Politics
School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
Contact
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Research interests
My research interests centre on the politics of development and North-South relations, in particular the interface between poverty, sustainable development, disease and political economy. My research currently has three broad strands (1) the politics of aid (with a particular focus on beneficiary participation and co-design) (2) community level responses to environmental challenges (specifically issues pertaining to WASH and cryosphere hazards), and (3) traditional healing in Sub-Saharan Africa (with a focus on HIV & AIDS). The geographic focus of my research is Sub-Saharan Africa more generally (with respect to HIV & AIDS) and, more recently, Bhutan and Nepal (WASH and cryosphere).
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
We Are Still Here: Stories from the HIV/AIDS Community
Principal Investigator
Description
In the midst of one global pandemic, we propose to revisit an ongoing one that has fallen from view. At the 2012 XIX International AIDS Conference in Washington DC, much…Managing organisational unit
School of Sociology, Politics and International StudiesDates
02/11/2020 to 31/07/2021
How tough is WASH? Developing indicators to measure the resilience of WASH to climate change in LMICs
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
We will develop and test indicators that will measure whether drinking water supplies and sanitation in rural areas and small towns in Nepal and Ethiopia are resilient to the future…Managing organisational unit
Department of Civil EngineeringDates
01/10/2019 to 31/07/2021
Building a Sub-Saharan African MuSculOskeletal Network; SAMSON
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
The burden of musculoskeletal disease is growing across Africa, with implications throughout the lifecourse. Currently research and healthcare capacity to address musculoskeletal disease is limited across the region. Ultimately SAMSON…Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (THS)Dates
09/02/2018 to 31/07/2018
Supporting the Delivery of High Quality Research in Somalia
Principal Investigator
Role
Collaborator
Managing organisational unit
School of Sociology, Politics and International StudiesDates
01/08/2015 to 01/08/2017
Thesis supervisions
Have we sold the poor the American Dream?
Supervisors
Boko Haram and the Discourse of Terrorism in Nigeria
Supervisors
Why Violent Ethnic Mobilizations Occur and Persist
Supervisors
From Financial Exclusion to Financial Inclusion
Supervisors
(Re)Defining Sustainability
Supervisors
A harvest of bare living conditions
Supervisors
Publications
Selected publications
01/01/2013Intellectual Property Rights and the Potential for Universal Access to Treatment: TRIPS, ACTA and HIV/AIDS Medicines
Third World Quarterly
Reconciling the Irreconcilable? HIV/AIDS and the Potential for Middle Ground Between the Traditional and Biomedical Healthcare Sectors in South Africa
Forum for Development Studies
Recent publications
13/02/2021Facilitating genuine community participation: can development learn from design?
development studies research
The how tough is WASH framework for assessing the climate resilience of water and sanitation
npj Clean Water
‘African Witchdoctors’ and Popular Culture
Journal of Contemporary African Studies
Antischistosomal, antionchocercal and antitrypanosomal potentials of some Ghanaian traditional medicines and their constituents
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
Making North–South Collaborations Work: Facilitating Natural Product Drug Discovery in Africa
Africa and the Sustainable Development Goals
Thesis
On the lateral stability of beams
Supervisors
Award date
01/01/1948
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