Laura Mann

Laura Mann is a sociologist whose research focuses on the political economy of development, knowledge and technology. Her regional focus is East Africa (Sudan, Kenya and Rwanda) but she has also worked on collaborative research on ICTs and BPO in Asia and has conducted fieldwork in North America as part of a project on digitisation within global agriculture.

Before joining the LSE as an assistant professor, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford and at the African Studies Centre in Leiden, and received her PhD from the University of Edinburgh. She is on the Editorial Working Group of the Review of African Political Economy. She is a research affiliate of the Firoz Lalji Centre for Africa.

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) The University of Edinburgh (2007 — 2011)
• Master of Science (MSc) by Research University of Edinburgh (2006 — 2007)
• Bachelor of Science (BSc) London School of Economics (2001 — 2004)

Companies

• Assistant Professor The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) (2015)
• Postdoctoral Researcher Leiden University (2014 — 2015)
• Postdoctoral Researcher University of Oxford (2011 — 2013)

Skills

• International Development
• NGOs
• Sociology

Other

Lecturing, University Teaching, Research Design, Statistics, Ethnography, Quantitative Research, Economics, Policy Analysis, International Relations, Research, Social Sciences, Qualitative Research