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Dr Rachel Masika is a multidisciplinary social scientist consulting and researching international development, higher education and leadership development. She has consulted for the UN, UNDP, Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation, Panos, Oxfam, Action Aid and the governments of India and the US. Rachel was a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Learning and Teaching at the University of Brighton. She holds a BA (Hons) Political Science and French, an MSc (Econ) Development Studies and a PhD in Development Studies. She has taught on Business Management programmes at the Sussex Business School and gender and international development programmes for the School of Global Studies, Sussex University and Birkbeck College, University of London. She has guest lectured for the Development Planning Unit at University College London (UCL) for the past five years. Previously, she was a researcher at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), after working in international development NGOs, corporates and promoting corporate social responsibility to, and brokering education business partnerships for, corporates at Business in the Community (BITC). Rachel is a co-founder of Women in Nigerian Higher Education (WinHE) and a member of the UK Gender and Development Network (GADN).

International Development

Gender and development

Urban change and development

Climate change

Information and communication technologies

Poverty alleviation

Higher Education

Higher education pedagogies

Pedagogical research

Research capacity development

Educational development

Widening participation

Student experience

Socially just higher education policy/practice

Leadership Development

Leadership and negotiation

Socially responsible leadership

Women and leadership

Contact Rachel for

Strategy and policy development

Research

Gender analysis, needs and impact assessments and project planning

Stakeholder assessment and engagement

Training and facilitation

Conference scoping

Report writing

Gender, development and climate change 20 years on

Thinking about gender, development and climate change 20 years on at the time of COP27

Change for public and social good

Global change making