PhD Research

I'm interested in how non-state actors construct their authority with which to exercise their own forms of governance. I spent 2012-3 conducting ethnographic research with NGOs in Tanzania, mapping informal, mainly discursive, legitimation practices. I am particularly interested in how NGOs interact with local government and other agencies. I draw from Bourdieu and  Foucault in employing practice-focused enquiry. Before returning to academia, I worked for several INGOs in sub-Saharan Africa on education and health. 

Currently...

Research Fellow with Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society, looking at charitable funding in the NHS.

Researcher on 'Closing Hospitals: an evaluation of knowledge use and public involvement in disinvestment proposals' with @DrEllenStu

Publications and Conference Papers

• Dodworth, Kathy (2019) 'Negotiating the public: voluntarism and its work in Tanzania' in African Affairs
• Dodworth, Kathy (2018) '"A real African woman!": Multipositionality and its effects in the field'  in Ethnography
• Dodworth, Kathy (2017) 'Fieldnote: Multipositionality in the "Field"' in Understanding Research in Global Development: Fieldwork Issues, Experiences and Reflections Sage Publications
• Dodworth, Kathy (2015) 'The politics of voluntarism in Tanzania', BISA, winner of inaugural BISA African Affairs postgraduate prize
• Dodworth, Kathy (2014) 'NGO legitimation as practice: Working state capital in Tanzania' Critical African Studies 6(1): 22-39
• Dodworth, Kathy (2015) 'We are 50% government!' Coproduction of the state in Tanzania' European Conference on African Studies (ECAS 6), Paris
• Dodworth, Kathy (2014) 'NGO legitimation as practice', biennial Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies (AEGIS) Summer School, Calgiari
• Dodworth, Kathy (2013) 'Interpreting the legitimacy of aid',  5th European Conference on African Studies (ECAS 5), Lisbon

Teaching

I bring considerable teaching/facilitation experience from my previous NGO life. Nominated for EUSA teaching award 2014-15. Taught on the following:

• Africa in Contemporary World (pre-hons) 2017-18, Tutor
• Governance, Poverty, Development in Africa (PG) 2014-16, Lecture
• Africa in International Politics (PG) 2015, Guest Lecturer
• Africa in World Politics (Honours) 2015, Tutor & Guest Lecturer
• Approaches to Politics and IR (Honours) 2012-14, Tutor
• Research in Africa (PG) 2015, Guest presentation
• Interpreting development institutions (PG) 2015-8, Guest presentation

Office Hours

Drop me a line - I'm at 23 Buccleuch Place.