Doctoral research
Ongoing and past PhD research at IOB
The first IOB PhD in Development Studies was awarded in 2011. This page gives an overview of all ongoing and completed PhD research.
Ongoing PhD research (alphabetical order)
Name PhD student | Title PhD | Supervisor(s) |
|---|---|---|
Adolphe Epoundè | Policy coherence for development and the SDGs: how do aid‐recipient African governments deal with contrasting donors’ policies | Nadia Molenaers |
Alder Contreras Hernández | The withering frontier: addressing the complexity of agrarian dynamics and territorial conflicts in north-east Nicaragua | Gert Van Hecken/Pierre Merlet/César García Díaz (Universidad Javeriana, Colombia) |
Alina Kiel | Changing the means and meanings of citizenship: a comparison of two bottom-up enumeration practices among Black minorities in Rio de Janeiro and Berlin | Moisés Kopper |
Andrea Alatorre Troncoso | ePEStemology: towards a consolidation of social and ecological integrity for conservation and development in Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) | Gert Van Hecken/Jerome Dupras (Université du Québec en Outaouais) |
Asif (Muhammad) Basar | The Bhola cyclone of 1970: the politics of disaster and aid in the divided nation of Pakistan | Nadia Molenaers |
Baudoin Koussognon | Sustainable development in floating and flood-prone communities in Benin, with lessons for West-Africa and beyond | Marijke Verpoorten |
Baudouin Mena Sebu | Power, religion, and the resurgence of customary authority in Haut-Uele (1999-2020) | Kristof Titeca |
Benjamin Muhoza Kanze | Drivers of unequal development in the Democratic Republic of Congo | Tom De Herdt/Kamala Kaghoma (UCB)/Tim Soens (UA) |
Berta Fernández Nuez | Effects of everyday data tactics in Kenya and Tanzania development policy initiatives through the lens of a capabilities methodology and digital co-creative tools | Moisés Kopper |
Bienvenu Matungulu | Taxation, hybrid state and inequality in the DRC | Tom De Herdt/Kamala Kaghoma (UCB) |
Cassandra Vet | The architecture of profit-shifting: state-power and interest for collective action: an analysis in the production and articulation for global governance | Danny Cassimon/Anne Van de Vijver (FRECH) |
Danya Nadar | When global threats meet localized practices: Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) vs. recognition and regeneration of ecosystem knowledge in Nicaragua and Guatemala | Tomaso Ferrando/Jennifer Casolo |
Denis Augustin Samnick | Social actions and interactions around the daily public governance of prisons in Africa: a comparative ethnography between Cameroon and the DRC | Tom De Herdt/Sara Liwerant (University of Kinshasa) |
Diana Tiholaz | Community Based Monitoring and its spillover effects: from anecdote to evidence | Nathalie Holvoet |
Divin-Luc Bikubanya | (De) industrialisation and supply chain governance in the construction sector in Africa’s Great Lake Region | Sara Geenen |
Eliane Giezendanner | From combatant to loyal party member or disillusioned defector? A case study on CNDD-FDD ex-combatants in Burundi | Kristof Titeca |
Eugenia Robles Mengoa | An in-depth study of informalization processes in global gold production: case studies on Colombia and the Philippines | Sara Geenen/Boris Verbrugge (KUL) |
Filippo Grisolia | One for all and all for cash? An inquiry into social network and collective action effects of cash transfers in rural Uganda | Nathalie Holvoet/Sara Dewachter |
Hadassah Arian | Questioning legitimacy in the responsible cobalt assemblage | Sara Geenen/Sarah Katz-Lavigne |
Hanne Van Cappellen | The city is not that far: urbanisation, social change and rural labour patterns in sub-Saharan Africa | Joachim De Weerdt |
Héctor Herrera | Green City Bonds for climate change adaptation and mitigation projects in Latin America and Africa : a comparative analysis of processes, regulations, and implications | Tomaso Ferrando |
Joseph Le Grand Bahati | Labour in the construction sector and its supply chain: The socio-economic impact of handmade urbanism in Bukavu | Sara Geenen/Marijke Verpoorten/Marie-Rose Bashwira (UCB) |
Juan Sebastian Velez Triana | Neoliberal conservation and hybrid resistances in Colombia: a scalar political ecology of environmental governance and social-ecological change in the Andean-Amazonian conservation corridor | Gert Van Hecken |
Mahar Musleh | A comparative study of Miskito Indigenous Community and Bedouin communities at Beer el-Sebe: space construction and forced urbanization as a colonial tool | Gert Van Hecken |
Mark Kadigo | Policy responses and coping strategies in refugee-hosting populations in Africa: a multidisciplinary and multidimensional study on the refugees and their hosts in Sub-Saharan Africa | Olivier Sterck/Jean-François Maystadt (UCLL) |
Milagros Romero López | Heterogeneities of farmers rationalities and territorial development pathways: perspectives for ‘microfinance plus’ models in Nicaragua | Johan Bastiaensen/Gert Van Hecken/Pierre Merlet |
Mollie Gleiberman | Predict and control: mobilizing the past and future to shape development policy, planning, and scholarship | Sara Geenen |
Olivier Bahati Mastaki | Civil servants’ payment and recruitment in donor darling sectors: the case of the ministries of environment and planning in the DRC | Tom De Herdt/Kristof Titeca/Stylianos Moshonas |
Paulin Balungwe Shamavu | Civil servants' human resource management practices and administrative work in Congolese public administration | Tom De Herdt/Stylianos Moshonas/Albert Malukisa |
Réginas Ndayiragije | Institutional engineering in divided societies: power-sharing and political representation in Burundi | Stef Vandeginste/Marijke Verpoorten |
René Rodriguez Fabilena | Towards a power-sensitive and socially-informed analysis of Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES): comparative case studies in Nicaragua and Guatemala | Gert Van Hecken/Jennifer Casolo |
Roos Derrix | The multi-levelled politics of national refugee policies: a case study of Uganda | Kristof Titeca/Milena Belloni (UGent) |
Solomon Mwije | Towards extreme participatory M&E? Assessing Global South Community Based Monitoring and Citizen Science (CMCS) initiatives from an inclusion lens: perspectives from Uganda | Nathalie Holvoet/Sara Dewachter |
Stephanie Garcidueñas Nieto | Green municipal bonds as a climate finance instrument: a comparative analysis of its issuance process and implementation from a North and South context | Nadia Molenaers |
Valentin Poponete | Evaluating the effectiveness of international security force assistance in conflict-affected countries | Nadia Molenaers |
Completed doctoral research (chronological order)
Name PhD student | Date public PhD defence | Title PhD thesis | Supervisor(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
Ivan Ashaba | 8/07/2024 | Kristof Titeca / Esther Marijnen (Wageningen University & Research) | |
Aloysius Ssennyonjo | 25/03/2024 | Kristof Titeca / Bart Criel (ITG) / Sara Van Belle (ITG) / Freddie Ssengooba (Makerere University) | |
Doreen Kyando | 15/02/2024 | Nathalie Holvoet / Sara Dewachter / Christina Shitima (Mzumbe University) | |
Simon Marijsse | 8/05/2023 | Sara Geenen / Boris Verbruggen (KU Leuven) / Filip De Boeck (KU Leuven) | |
Evert Waeterloos | 2/05/2023 | Nadia Molenaers | |
Fergus Simpson | 3/10/2022 | Sara Geenen / Kristof Titeca | |
Francine Iragi Mukotanyi | 9/06/2022 | Sara Geenen / Marijke Verpoorten / Alice Mufungizi Nabintu (Université catholique de Bukavu)
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Sarah Vancluysen | 30/11/2021 | Bert Ingelaere / Kristof Titeca | |
Pierre Merlet | 18/11/2021 | Johan Bastiaensen | |
Antea Paviotti | 17/09/2021 | Bert Ingelaere / Stef Vandeginste | |
Lisa Popelier | 18/01/2021 | Nathalie Holvoet | |
Tobias Gandrup | 23/10/2020 | Tom De Herdt / Kristof Titeca | |
Micha Wiebusch | 28/09/2020 | Constitution building in the African Union - law, policy and practice | Stef Vandeginste |
Catherine Windey | 7/09/2020 | From geocoded to entangled landscape: forests, REDD+ environmental rule and everyday practices in DR Congo | Johan Bastiaensen / Gert Van Hecken |
Mathias De Roeck | 10/10/2019 | Power to Decouple. Hybrid Regimes in the International System: A Multimethod Analysis | Nadia Molenaers / Ronan Van Rossem (UGent) |
Frédéric Huybrechs | 30/11/2018 | A political ecology approach to green microfinance. Development pathways and avenues for transformative microfinance for rural development | Johan Bastiaensen / Gert Van Hecken |
Christina Shitima | 16/11/2018 | An analysis of household development strategies and their linkage to river basin resources degradation in Tanzania | Nathalie Holvoet / Romanus Dimoso (Mzumbe University) |
Dimitri Renmans | 29/08/2018 | Opening the ‘black box’ of performance-based financing in the healthcare sector of western Uganda | Nathalie Holvoet / Bart Criel / Christopher Garimoi Orach (Makerere University) |
Francis Mbunya | 7/06/2018 | In Search of the Environment-Development Nexus in Tofala Hill Wildlife Sanctuary, Cameroon | Tom De Herdt / Tom Vanwing / George Chuyong |
Janvier Kilosho | 5/04/2018 | Industrialisation et Traçabilité minières au Sud-Kivu : Quel avenir pour les exploitants miniers artisanaux ? | Marijke Verpoorten / Jean-Baptiste Ntagoma Kushinganine |
Ntagahoraho Burihabwa | 17/03/2017 | ‘Continuity and Contingency’ - The CNDD-FDD and its transformation from rebel movement to governing political party in Burundi | Filip Reyntjens / Stef Vandeginste |
Klara Claessens | 6/03/2017 | Land, Access and Power. Case studies from Kalehe, DRC | Filip Reyntjens / Tom De Herdt / An Ansoms |
Albert Malukisa | 16/02/2017 | La gouvernance réelle du transport en commun à Kinshasa : la prééminence des normes pratiques sur les normes officielles | Tom De Herdt / Kristof Titeca / Philémon Muamba |
Patricia Bamanyaki | 20/12/2016 | Evaluating effects of local-level outside government gender budget initiatives in maternal health. | Nathalie Holvoet / Henry Manyire |
Katrien Van Aelst | 3/10/2016 | Gender, households and climate change. Adaptation decision-making in the Morogoro Region of Tanzania. | Nathalie Holvoet / Ann Crabbé |
Nanneke Winters | 24/03/2016 | Contested connections. Mobility and migration as development experiences of translocal livelihoods in Muy Muy, Nicaragua | Johan Bastiaensen |
Selmira Flores | 17/12/2015 | Gender dynamics in dairy value chains in Nicaragua. Current practices, changes and challenges | Johan Bastiaensen |
Tri Ha Minh | 16/02/2015 | An analysis of influence of evaluation in the context of socio-economic development plan (SEDP) implementation in Vietnam - the case of Hai Lang district, Quang Tri Province | Nathalie Holvoet |
Marie Gildemyn | 20/11/2014 | From signposting to straightening crooked paths the role and influence of civil society organisations that are involved in the monitoring and evaluation of government programmes and policies in Ghana | Nathalie Holvoet |
Inge Wagemakers | 17/06/2014 | The periphery revisited: understanding local urban governance in the context of rapid urban expansion and weak state institutions in Kinshasa | Tom De Herdt |
Sara Geenen | 5/05/2014 | Qui cherche, trouve’. The political economy of access to gold mining and trade in South Kivu, DRC | Filip Reyntjens |
Bert Ingelaere | 19/12/2012 | Peasants, Power and the Past. The Gacaca Courts and Rwanda’s Transition From Below | Filip Reyntjens |
Gert Van Hecken | 17/05/2011 | Payments for environmental services and governance of natural resources for rural communities: beyond the market-based model - an institutional approach. Case studies from Nicaragua | Johan Bastiaensen |