Aoife McCullough
Research Associate
Aoife is currently a Research Associate with the Global Risks and Resilience programme. Her core area of expertise lies in political economy and social analysis in conflict-affected environments. She has used these skills to lead conflict and governance analyses in Niger, Mali, South Sudan, Pakistan and Liberia for donors and NGOs. Her analysis has been used by DFID and USAID to inform multi-million governance programmes, and by NGOs such as the Norwegian Refugee Council to inform humanitarian interventions.
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While a Research Fellow with ODI's Politics and Governance programme, Aoife led a multi-country series of case studies exploring the link between service delivery and state legitimacy as part of the Secure Livelihoods Research Consortium. She is currently a PhD candidate at the London School of Economics, focusing on the presence of foreign militaries and state legitimacy in Niger. She holds an MSc in Anthropology and Development from the London School of Economics and a BA in Psychology from Trinity College Dublin.
Latest tweets from @aoifemccullough
28 OctUN agency ToR: Up to 41 million young people under 25 years of age in Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and the… https://t.co/oYYh29j7KL- 19 Oct"The judicial branch remains one of the most understudied institutions of public office from the perspective of wom… https://t.co/C3UElg6S1V
- 19 OctSome great reflections on how to present findings to the people that we research: ‘How is your research going to be… https://t.co/NxSD8cDwpp
- 14 Oct@traffyaston @DavidBoothODI @ODIdev Maybe. I’m a big fan of political settlement theory and draw a lot on David’s w… https://t.co/3nvY05pzqR
- 14 Oct@JassiSandhar @DavidBoothODI @ODIdev hmme, I know Twitter isn't the best place for these kinds of debates. Can you… https://t.co/CTbII3IWwH
- 14 Oct@DavidBoothODI @ODIdev It’s not just the lack of representation of black researchers at the institute but also the… https://t.co/QFvR4WtiDj
- 14 Oct@DavidBoothODI @ODIdev But the point I have the biggest objection to is the idea that research at ODI is completely… https://t.co/470trn2fU2
- 14 Oct@DavidBoothODI @ODIdev I don’t see how the call to re-examine the past and understand privilege is system theory or… https://t.co/ebIXvWoXS2
- 14 Oct@DavidBoothODI @ODIdev The Q is whether “dev project” is a useful concept. The fact that we use a language that ppl… https://t.co/EVvKAV3ljv
- 14 Oct@DavidBoothODI @ODIdev The term “political settlement” can also be vague and statements about the PS can often ride… https://t.co/599UuU7Jlh
- 14 Oct@DavidBoothODI @ODIdev @DavidBoothODI, it’s good to see a more detailed explanation of your position. It’s true tha… https://t.co/9w36FUgvpw
- 07 Oct@DavidBoothODI @ODIdev As someone who spent so many years analysing power and political settlements, it's disappoin… https://t.co/qDhdsDEvaV
- 05 OctRT @annateesch: #JustOut: Half a decade into #migration management in the #Sahel @johannesclaes & I unpack long-term socio-economic & gover…
- 01 OctAnd for your 5 min summary of all of that, here's a blog that @JPapoulidis and I wrote https://t.co/cpvvYCLe9J via @WorldBank
- 01 OctThis was based on a 3rd round of the survey plus three case studies in Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka by… https://t.co/4RoQVYrwo8
- 01 OctIn phase 2, we changed tack a little to try & answer some of the puzzles that the research from phase 1 had produce… https://t.co/Qj4wTqSSjQ
- 01 OctThere were also a few case studies carried out to explore the puzzling findings from the survey. Here's a really in… https://t.co/vWlymIhX9V
- 01 OctFor a 5 min read of all of the above, here's a blog I wrote back in 2017 https://t.co/MHdKLtQJ3t via @fp2p
