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. I have become increasingly interested in the politics of HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa, especially with respect to matters of international political economy, governance and policymaking.
Recent publications include:
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(2020) ‘African Witchdoctors’ and Popular Culture: Global Hierarchies and the Reinforcement of the Colonial World Order, Journal of Contemporary African Studies (in press).
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(with Kwaku Kyeremeh et al) (2019) ‘Making North-South Collaborations Work: Facilitating Natural Product Drug Discovery in Africa’, in M. Ramutsindela and D. Mickler (eds.) Africa and the Sustainable Development Goals, Springer.
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(with Christian Meyer zu Natrup) (2019) ‘Aid and Development by Design: Local Solutions to Local Problems’, Development in Practice, 29(2):208-219.
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(2015) 'Traditional Healing, Biomedicine and the Treatment of HIV/AIDS: Contrasting South African and Native American Experiences', International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 12(1): 4321-4339 [OPEN ACCESS].
- (with Vernon Hewitt) (2015) 'Colonial Tropes and HIV/AIDS in Africa: Sex, Disease and Race', Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, 53(3): 294-314 [OPEN ACCESS].
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(with Christian Meyer zu Natrup) (2014) ‘Ownership and Participation: Towards a Development Paradigm based on Beneficiary-Led Aid’, Journal of Developing Societies, 30(3): 273-295.
Positions
University of Bristol positions
Senior Lecturer in Development Politics
School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
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
Biomedicine, witchcraft and traditional healers
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Sociology, Politics and International StudiesDates
01/08/2010 to 01/09/2010
Thesis supervisions
Boko Haram and the Discourse of Terrorism in Nigeria
Supervisors
Why Violent Ethnic Mobilizations Occur and Persist
Supervisors
(Re)Defining Sustainability
Supervisors
From Financial Exclusion to Financial Inclusion
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
Recent publications
26/02/2021How tough is WASH? Developing an indicator framework for assessing climate resilience for water and sanitation services in low- and middle-income countries
Facilitating genuine community participation: can development learn from design?
Antischistosomal, antionchocercal and antitrypanosomal potentials of some Ghanaian traditional medicines and their constituents
‘African Witchdoctors’ and Popular Culture
Journal of Contemporary African Studies
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