Leonard Cheshire Fellows 2011-2012
Leonard Cheshire Fellows are experts in disability policy and practice who hold an appointment to the Leonard Cheshire Centre and participate in joint research and teaching, and provide advice and guidance on Centre projects and initiatives, and work with Centre students.
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Dr Parul Bakhshi, PhD. Dr Bakhshi is an independent consultant and a Leonard Cheshire Fellow. She participated as co-investigator on the National Disability Survey Afghanistan, and has published several articles on disability issues, including research methodology. She co-edited the book on collective capabilities with Jean-Luc Dubois (Repenser l’action collective. Une approche par les capabilités, 2008). She conducted several consultancies for UN agencies (UNICEF and UNESCO). She is currently carrying out a study on education in Afghanistan for the World Bank and Altai Consulting. |
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Nicola Bailey, MPH. Nicola Bailey, Independent Researcher, was formally based at the Leonard Cheshire Disability and Inclusive Development Centre. She now works as an monitoring and evaluation intern for Merlin, a UK-based international health charity. She continues to have an interest in disability issues, water and sanitation, and human resources for health. |
| Dr Lawrence C. Kaplan, MD. |
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Dr Daniel Mont, PhD. Daniel is a Senior Economist with the World Bank Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Team in Vietnam, and formerly with the World Bank's Disability and Development Team. He has published in the areas of disability measurement and inclusive development. He is the recipient of a public policy fellowship from the Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation and was named the first John Jones Scholar in Workers' Compensation by the Workers' Compensation Research Institute. |
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Myroslava Tataryn, MPH Myroslava is adviser for Disability and AIDS at AIDS-Free World. She has also worked with Environment Canada, Katimavik, and Disabled People’s International. Myroslava worked with Handicap International in Haiti in 2011. She was a Gordon Global Fellow from the Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation in 2008. |
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Lorraine Wapling Email: consultant@wapling.me.uk |
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Professor Sheila Wirz Professor Wirz is Emerita Professor of Disability and International Development. Sheila has a long experience in practice, teaching and research of issues relating to community disability services and collaborations. She has developed a range of courses both in the UK and with colleagues in Sri Lanka, India (Chennai and Mumbai). She was Director of Teaching and Learning at the Institute of Child Health until December 2007 and in that role managed the smooth running of all the degree programmes at ICH. She remains chairman of the management committee of the short courses programme at ICH/Great Ormond Street Hospital. Sheila has a part time role at CIHD supervising PhD and Post doctoral students. |
Visiting Students at the Centre 2011-2012
Our centre, in addition to working closely with students at UCL, welcomes students from other universities who seek to spend time with centre faculty while working on their own research projects. or who work with us on centre projects and programmes.
Recent students include:
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Charlotte Gal Charlotte is a recent graduate of the London School of Economics. She is working with Professor Groce on the UCL White Paper on Vulnerable Populations project, as part of the UCL Grand Challenges in Global Health initiative. |
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Jillian London Jillian is joining us this summer for work on the Leonard Cheshire Centre/Harvard Law School Exchange Project. She is working with Professor Groce on a systematic review of poverty and disability issues. |
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Sumaya Mall Sumaya, a PhD candidate from Stellenbosch University, South Africa, joined us for the Spring of 2011 as an Oppenheimer Memorial Trust Fellow. Her research theme was disabled adolescents with HIV/AIDS, working with Professor Groce. |
