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<Thread> LOOK BOTH WAYS!

Prof Heather Marquette (@hamarquette of @iddbirmingham & @DFID_UK Senior Research Fellow for Governance & Conflict) thinks through how to bring 'Serious & Organised Crime' into future 'Development Research'
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I’ve been doing research on corruption in #globaldev for well over 20 years. But what some might not know is that I started out my PhD with a proposal to do research on serious & organised crime. SOC in Boston linked to the IRA, to be exact. bit.ly/2KYOq7w
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My supervisor, the late (much loved & missed) Bob Williams, convinced me that corruption would be just as interesting, but the fieldwork would be safer. I'd picked up interest in development from Dr Anna Dickson & decided to combine the 2. It was a good move.

And yet...
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