Researcher

Matthew Osborne

Institute: SEI
Other affiliation: UEA, Norwich Institute for Sustainable Development
Research area: Agriculture rural development & food security, Conflict resolution, Environment and climate change, Equitable economic growth, Fishery, International development cooperation & coordination, Natural resource management, Peace and inclusive societies, Policy development, Poverty reduction, Renewable energy, Research and innovation
Research region: Africa, Asia-Pacific, Latin America
Open to collaboration with: All

About

Skilled Researcher with a PhD in International Development, focused on Development and Environment      research, with multiple publications in leading peer-reviewed journals. Bringing experience in both selfdirected and support research capacities in addition to significant programme and team management in Global South and North contexts. Extensive record of developing partnerships and collaborations across academic, government, civil society, and the private sector. Dedicated proponent of trans and interdisciplinary research with a genuine love of learning. Enthusiastic advocate of bringing scientific knowledge to the application of policy and practice and committed to empowering local stakeholders and community beneficiaries within programming design and implementation. 

Professional experience

Co-supervisor of PhD
5 year(s) -
Lecturing
5 year(s) -
Supervision of Master’s students
10 year(s) -
Supervision of Bachelor’s students
5 year(s) -

Other experience

Collaboration with civil society organisations
10 year(s) -
Collaboration with government agencies
3 year(s) -
Collaboration with private sector
5 year(s) -
Consultancy contracts
3 year(s) -
Evaluations
3 year(s) -
Lecturing and workshops
10 year(s) -
Statistical analysis
3 year(s) -
Survey creation and analysis
10 year(s) -

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Featured work

Designing development interventions: The application of service design and discrete choice experiments in complex settings

Publications

Truly reconciled? A dyadic analysis of post-conflict social reintegration in Northern Uganda

Journal of Peace Research
Marine fisheries and future ocean conflict

Fish and Fisheries
Beyond buying: The application of service design methodology to understand adoption of clean cookstoves in Kenya and Zambia

Energy Research & Social Science
Old habits die hard: Using the energy cultures framework to understand drivers of household-level energy transitions in urban Zambia

Energy Research & Social Science
Ecological interdependencies and resource competition: The role of information and communication in promoting effective collaboration in complex management situations

PLOS ONE
Mineral analysis reveals extreme manganese concentrations in wild harvested and commercially available edible termites

Scientific Reports
Embracing complexity: A transdisciplinary conceptual framework for understanding behavior change in the context of development-focused interventions

World Development
Do we need better behaved cooks? Reviewing behavioural change strategies for improving the sustainability and effectiveness of cookstove programs

Energy Research & Social Science
Combining service design and discrete choice experiments for intervention design: An application to weather index insurance

MethodsX
Debating cookstoves: Ensuring clarity, correctness and taking responsibility for the words we choose

Energy Research & Social Science
Exploring the future of fishery conflict through narrative scenarios

One Earth
Causal pathways in the political economy of climate adaptation: Winners and losers in Turkana, Kenya solar mini-grid projects

Energy Research & Social Science
Designing development interventions: The application of service design and discrete choice experiments in complex settings

World Development