Dr Susannah Pickering-Saqqa

• Pickering-Saqqa, S. (ed.) (forthcoming, 2023) "Researching Development NGOs: Grassroots and Global Perspectives, Routledge".
• Nov 2020 Established Third Sector Organisation and Covid-19 research network with colleagues in Brazil, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Malawi, Palestine and UK
• April 2019 "The rise and reality of INGO domestic programming", BOND blog published 25 April 2019
• April 2019 "Places of Poverty and Powerlessness: INGOs working 'at home'", European Journal of Development Research, 31 (5): 1371-1388.
• February 2019 "Why work 'at home'"? Oxfam's value-added and the UK Poverty Programme, Development in Practice, 29 (4): 477-488.
• Jan - July 2019 Principal Investigator, Building capacity among young development researchers in Ethiopia, Global Challenges Research Fund, DFID.
• October 2018 - Nov 2020 Co-investigator, The role of dignity in improving sanitation and menstrual 

health in rural India, Global Challenges Research Fund, DFID.

• November 2017, Developed and ran collaborative research skills workshops for Rajiv Gandhi Charitable Foundation, Uttar Pradesh, India with Professor Allan Brimicombe and Dr Meera Tiwari (UEL).
• August 2017 "Is development becoming universal?", BOND blog, published 17 August 2017.
• August 2017 "Telling the right story: development NGOs as brokers of global citizenship", EADI Conference, University of Bergen, 20-21 August, co-author with Emma Mortensen-Byrne, University of Aalborg.
• August 2017 "Places of poverty and powerlessness: INGOs working 'at home'", EADI Conference, University of Bergen, 20-21 August.
• June 2017 "Why the money development charities spend in Britain is so vital to their work", The Conversation, published 5 June 2017.
• May 2017 - to-date Research contract for Islamic Relief Academy, The extent, challenges and resourcing of domestic programming in seven Islamic Relief partner offices.
• April 2017 External Evaluation for Childreach International and Action for Brazil's Children: "Creating My Story" Project, in collaboration with Dr Meera Tiwari and Dr Kathryn Kraft, UEL.
• September 2016   "Political or apolitical; powerful or powerless? NGOs, Politics and Power", Co-convenor of DSA NGOs in Development Study Group Panels, DSA Conference, University of Oxford, 13 September 2016.
• August 2016 "Why development NGOs in the North work with the poor in their own communities", presentation to Islamic Relief, Birmingham, 22 August 2016.
• "Evaluation Report: Lessons Learned, True Vine School". Written for Lebanese Society for Economic Social Development with Dr Meera Tiwari and Dr Kathryn Kraft.
• July 2016 "Oxfam GB's UK poverty programme: a case for organisational habitus", BSA Bourdieu Study Group Biennial Conference, July 2016
• December 2015 "Evaluation Report: Save the Girl Child". Written for Childreach International and Childreach India with Dr Meera Tiwari and Dr Kathryn Kraft.
• November 2015 "Communicating across multiple domains: The case of Islamic Relief", C4D Workshop, University of East London, 25 November 2015.
• September 2015 "Why development NGOs in the North work with the poor in their own communities", Oxfam UK Poverty UK Advisory Group, London, 23 September 2015.
• September 2015 "NGOs as Knowledge Hubs and Brokers of Expertise in Tomorrow's World?"
• Co-convenor of DSA NGOs in Development Study Group Roundtable, DSA Conference, University of Bath 8 September 2015.
• April 2015 "Development NGOs working within and across multiple domains: the case of Islamic Relief", British Association of South Asian Studies, Portsmouth, 8 April 2015.
• November 2014 "Why work 'at home'? Domestic poverty programmes and their challenge to Northern Development NGOs", Development Studies Association Conference, London, 1 November 2014.
• June 2014 "Adapt or Die: What is the future for Non-Governmental Development Organisations in the global North?", EADI Conference, Responsible Development in a Polycentric World: Inequality, Citizenship and the Middle Classes, Bonn, June 2014
• April 2014 "Understanding and measuring urban deprivation" at Measuring Human Development and Capabilities in High-income Countries, Roma Tre University, 12-15 April 2014, co-presenter with Dr Meera Tiwari.
• November 2013 "The role of Access and Gatekeeping in Understanding Grassroots Poverty: a North-South Perspective", Development Studies Association Annual Conference, Birmingham, 16 November 2013, co-presenter with Dr Meera Tiwari.
• Co-convenor of NGOs in Development Study Group Panel, "NGOs and Development Communications in the 21st Century", at Development Studies Association (DSA) Annual Conference.
• November 2012 "Understanding Urban Deprivations: a Northern Perspective using Case Studies in East and South London", at Development Studies Association Annual Conference, London, co-presenter with Dr Meera Tiwari.
• 2011 - 2013 Co-researcher on 18- month UKIERI-funded project which seeks to identify strategies for overcoming urban deprivation in East London and Mumbai across 6 case-study community organisations.
• Sep 2009 - Sept 2015 PhD, University of East London: Why development NGOs in the North work with the poor in their own communities: Does Everyone Matter? The research uses four case studies: Oxfam GB; Red Barnet, Denmark; Oxfam America, and Islamic Relief UK examining the shifts in understanding of what "development" is by Northern development NGOs.