Susan Johnson

Senior Lecturer, Department of Social & Policy Sciences
CDS Director, Centre for Development Studies
Institute for Policy Research (IPR)

Phone+44 (0) 1225 385968
EmailS.Z.Johnson@bath.ac.uk

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Research interests

My main research interest is in investigating the means through which social and cultural factors influence the economy and in particular how these factors influence the operation of markets in developing countries. I therefore investigate at the boundary of economics and other social sciences, in particular drawing on economic anthropology and economic sociology to investigate the social and cultural dimensions of market transactions and market development. My research can also be characterised as empirically driven and methodologically inductive in seeking to understand this boundary through the study of actually existing markets and the processes through which they are instantiated.

Having started my career as a development practitioner, my priority is research that engages theory with policy and practice. The core focus of my work to date has been on microfinance and the wider financial markets it operates within. I have therefore been engaged with a number of research and action research projects relating to the microfinance sector. More recently through my engagement with the Wellbeing in Developing Countries research programme (WeD) I have considered how markets relate to this wider goal.

Research interests

Poverty, inequality, wellbeing and sustainable livelihoods
Markets - social and cultural dynamics and the role of institutions
Microfinance and microenterprise
Gender analysis of development interventions
Regional focus: Africa – particularly Eastern Africa
Development management with a particular focus on monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment
Research methods: use of mixed methods, participatory and qualititative methods

Research summary

Coastal Rural Support Programme, Tanzania (photo courtesy of Susan Johnson)

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Projects

1 Active
2 Finished

The challenge of promoting effective financial inclusion: an investigation of the factors that lead to active use of formal savings accounts

Johnson, S., Larquemin, A. & Steel, W.

15/01/20 → 31/10/20

Project: Research-related funding

KTP with Oxford Policy Management Limited (2)

Johnson, S., Copestake, J. & Vujić, S.

Innovate UK

6/03/14 → 5/03/16

Project: Central government, health and local authorities

KTP with Oxford Policy Management Ltd

Copestake, J. & Johnson, S.

Innovate UK

1/09/10 → 31/08/12

Project: Central government, health and local authorities

Research Output

26 Article
19 Working paper
16 Chapter
3 Commissioned report
5 More

Local currency adoption and use: insights from a realist evaluation of the Bristol Pound

Johnson, S. & Harvey-Wilson, H., Apr 2018, Centre for Development Studies, University of Bath, (Bath Papers in International Development and Wellbeing; no. 56).

Research output: Working paper

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