Stephen Thompson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3697257 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen Thompson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen |
| FAMILY NAME | Thompson |
| SIGNATURE | THOMPSON S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute of Development Studies |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9637-2041 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Advancing Disability-Inclusive Participatory Research: Lessons, Challenges, and Future Directions
Participatory research, which is built on the guiding philosophy of enabling and empowering people to play an active and influential role in research that affects their lives, is an approach which can contribute to realising meaningful inclusion. Drawing on experiences gained through developing and employing participatory research methods under the Disability Inclusive Development Inclusive Futures programme, this article explores the methodologi…
Introduction: Building Disability-Inclusive Futures
An estimated 1.3 billion people worldwide experience disability and are a part of human diversity. People with disabilities remain underrepresented in development programmes and research. People with disabilities must be included in development initiatives to ensure that no one is left behind. This issue presents a collection of articles written by researchers and practitioners involved in the UK aid-funded Disability Inclusive Development (DID) …
Glossary
This is the glossary of IDS Bulletin 57.1 ‘Building Disability-Inclusive Futures
People with Disabilities and Transport Access: Evidence from Penda and Inclusive Futures
Transport is a fundamental enabler of participation in society yet people with disabilities frequently experience barriers to accessing it. These barriers are often greater in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Despite its importance, transport remains neglected in disability-inclusive development interventions. This article synthesises evidence from the Disability Inclusive Development Inclusive Futures programme and the Programme for Evi…
Development brut - a new concept to understand and appreciate outsider development
Despite recent and renewed interest in the contribution of localization to development, significant questions remain. For example, if development practice happens outside of a formal development project, does it count as development? How do we collectively describe people working on the fringes (and beyond) of formal development and what do we call their practice? How do we value or measure their contributions within the development industry? As …
How did South Africans with disabilities experience Covid-19? Results of an online survey
The evidence will inform the development of the national monitoring framework, recognised by the South African Government and emphasised by the United Nations as necessary to ensure the realisation of the rights of people with disabilities during future crises including pandemics
Disability, Religion, and Gender: Exploring Experiences of Exclusion in India Through an Intersectional Lens
Despite the existence of national and international laws and conventions to avoid discrimination in India, exclusion due to an intersection of disability, gender, and religious identity continues, resulting in marginalisation from society. This article investigates the lived experiences of people by exploring how aspects of their identity intersect to influence their inclusion or exclusion within society. Narrative interviews were undertaken with…
Spaces of Exclusion and Neglect: The Impact of Covid-19 on People With Disabilities in Bangladesh, Kenya, Nepal, Nigeria, and Uganda
This research investigates how COVID-19 has affected experiences of people with disabilities in low- and middle-income contexts. A qualitative approach was used to collect data as the pandemic progressed from 75 participants in Nigeria, Bangladesh, Nepal, Kenya, and Uganda. The research aimed to be inclusive of people with disabilities by asking the participants directly about their perspectives with a narrative interview method being employed to…
Looking Back to Move Development Forward – A Fireside Chat with Robert Chambers
This Archive Collection focuses on the articles contributed by Robert Chambers to the IDS Bulletin over the years, which explore various development dilemmas. In the spirit of participation, learning, and reflection (which have been such prominent features of Robert’s scholarship), it felt only right to speak to Robert himself to hear his views on some of the enduring development challenges; therefore, in December 2022 we visited our colleague an…
Glossary
This is the Glossary for IDS Bulletin 54.1A: Power, Poverty, and Knowledge – Reflecting on 50 Years of Learning with Robert Chambers
Introduction: Power, Poverty, and Knowledge – Reflecting on 50 Years of Learning with Robert Chambers
Robert Chambers is one of the most influential and prolific scholars to write about participation, poverty, and knowledge in development studies. His books, chapters, and papers have revolutionised the discipline, inspiring both participatory processes and more inclusive practice. Perhaps not as well known are the articles he authored for the IDS Bulletin. This Archive Collection explores Robert’s contributions to the journal across five decades …
Mainstreaming disability inclusive employment in international development
People with disabilities are under-represented in the global workforce, and this problem is often particularly acute in the ‘global south’. This special issue seeks to provide new perspectives on why this is the case and comprises seven papers focused on disability inclusive employment. We deliberately wanted to place this collection in the Journal of International Development as a core development publication, rather than in a disability specifi…
Achieving disability inclusive employment – Are the current approaches deep enough
Diverse approaches to promoting disability inclusive employment aim to transform workplaces into truly inclusive environments, usually with intervention strategies targeting two main groups: employers and jobseekers with disabilities. However, they do not always consider other relevant stakeholders or address the relationships and interactions between diverse actors in the wider social ecosystem. These approaches often neglect deeper ‘vexing’ dif…
A tool to estimate the contribution of fishing gear modifications to reduce benthic impact
The ecological effects of seabed-penetrating fishing gears depend, in part, on the seabed penetration (P) of the gear. We present a gear impact tool that utilizes published data to provide estimated P of globally utilized seabed-penetrating fishing gears in different sediments and their resulting impact on biological communities. As P correlates with the depletion (d) of benthic fauna caused by fishing gears, we use P to calculate d, which can be…
Lives turned upside down in Covid-19 times: Exploring disabled people's experiences in 5 low-and-middle income countries using narrative interviews
This article explores COVID-19 related experiences of disabled people in Bangladesh, Kenya, Nigeria, Nepal and Uganda. Narrative interviews generated storied responses, focussing on respondents' priorities, which enabled us to hear what was most significant for them and their families. 143 interviews were conducted online or by phone by 7 local researchers (3 disabled), with appropriate inclusive support. Nearly everyone was interviewed twice to …
Willingness to pay for improved vision in Mozambique
The burden of vision impairment due to uncorrected refractive error (needing spectacles) in Mozambique is known to be significant. To improve the planning and provision of eye health services, a better understanding of how vision is valued by patients is needed. The willingness to pay (WTP) for improved vision through correcting refractive error was investigated in Nampula, Mozambique, using stated choice and bidding game methodologies. The mean …
The Need and Desire for Inclusive Universities: A Perspective from Development Studies
In recent times there has been sustained momentum to address inequalities within university faculties and improve the diversity of students. Also, in response to historical and current social injustices, universities have sought to decolonize curricula. These progressive movements have had particular significance for departments focused on development studies and related subjects because the need to be inclusive is not only the right thing to do …
MyShake Citizen Seismologists Help Launch Dual-Use Seismic Network in California
The MyShake app began delivering earthquake early warning alerts to users in California on October 17, 2019. The app delivers alerts from ShakeAlert when the estimated magnitude is 4.5 or greater to phones in the Modified Mercali Intensity (MMI) III or greater zone. MyShake users receive the alerts, but also serve as citizen seismologists for the system. They contribute accelerometer data allowing this dual-use network to serve as an alert delive…
Volunteering for development: What Does Best Practice Look Like
Volunteering for development is a long-standing form of development assistance. Vision Aid Overseas is an international NGO that works to enable people living in poverty to access affordable spectacles and eye care. Volunteering has been at the core of its interventions since its formation in 1985. In 2019 the organisation undertook a comprehensive review of its approach. A literature review and stakeholder consultation on volunteering for develo…
Addressing avoidable vision impairment in Mozambique and the Africa region
The Mozambique Eyecare Project was an international partnership to implement and research eye health education in Mozambique and the Africa region. An optometry degree was developed at Universidade Lúrio, Mozambique. In addition, existing eye health workers were upskilled with training. Researchers from various disciplines evaluated the project and its potential for impact on eye health in the region. The body of evidence generated from the resea…
A Feedback-Response Pause Normalises Response Perseveration Deficits in Pathological Gamblers
Mind the gap: Technology as soma
Understanding Mass School Shootings: Links between Personhood and Power in the Competitive School Environment
Water in New Mexico: A History of Its Use and Management
Design for Excellence in Teacher Education: A Developmental Model for Student Assessment, Selection and Retention
The social, political, and academic ramifications of the educational reform movement of the 1980s have led to an increased emphasis on testing of teach ers. The authors present an assessment model for a preservice teacher educa tion program that is developmental, al lows for skills' enhancement, involves both arts and science and education fac ulty review, and includes several strategies for assessment other than standardized paper-and-pencil tes…
Disability, Religion, and Gender: Exploring Experiences of Exclusion in India Through an Intersectional Lens
Despite the existence of national and international laws and conventions to avoid discrimination in India, exclusion due to an intersection of disability, gender, and religious identity continues, resulting in marginalisation from society. This article investigates the lived experiences of people by exploring how aspects of their identity intersect to influence their inclusion or exclusion within society. Narrative interviews were undertaken with…
Spaces of Exclusion and Neglect: The Impact of Covid-19 on People With Disabilities in Bangladesh, Kenya, Nepal, Nigeria, and Uganda
This research investigates how COVID-19 has affected experiences of people with disabilities in low- and middle-income contexts. A qualitative approach was used to collect data as the pandemic progressed from 75 participants in Nigeria, Bangladesh, Nepal, Kenya, and Uganda. The research aimed to be inclusive of people with disabilities by asking the participants directly about their perspectives with a narrative interview method being employed to…
Volunteering for development: What Does Best Practice Look Like
Volunteering for development is a long-standing form of development assistance. Vision Aid Overseas is an international NGO that works to enable people living in poverty to access affordable spectacles and eye care. Volunteering has been at the core of its interventions since its formation in 1985. In 2019 the organisation undertook a comprehensive review of its approach. A literature review and stakeholder consultation on volunteering for develo…
The Need and Desire for Inclusive Universities: A Perspective from Development Studies
In recent times there has been sustained momentum to address inequalities within university faculties and improve the diversity of students. Also, in response to historical and current social injustices, universities have sought to decolonize curricula. These progressive movements have had particular significance for departments focused on development studies and related subjects because the need to be inclusive is not only the right thing to do …
Design for Excellence in Teacher Education: A Developmental Model for Student Assessment, Selection and Retention
The social, political, and academic ramifications of the educational reform movement of the 1980s have led to an increased emphasis on testing of teach ers. The authors present an assessment model for a preservice teacher educa tion program that is developmental, al lows for skills' enhancement, involves both arts and science and education fac ulty review, and includes several strategies for assessment other than standardized paper-and-pencil tes…
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Urbanization and the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District
A shift from irrigation agriculture to urban landuses is affecting physical and social aspects of the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District. An evolutionary perspective and an examination of special districts provide a framework for understanding the significance of changes occurring in the district. The district was intended to have three benefits: flood control, supply of irrigation water, and drainage. The latter two have been profoundly affe…
Water in New Mexico: A History of Its Use and Management
Design for Excellence in Teacher Education: A Developmental Model for Student Assessment, Selection and Retention
The social, political, and academic ramifications of the educational reform movement of the 1980s have led to an increased emphasis on testing of teach ers. The authors present an assessment model for a preservice teacher educa tion program that is developmental, al lows for skills' enhancement, involves both arts and science and education fac ulty review, and includes several strategies for assessment other than standardized paper-and-pencil tes…
Understanding Mass School Shootings: Links between Personhood and Power in the Competitive School Environment
Mind the gap: Technology as soma
A Feedback-Response Pause Normalises Response Perseveration Deficits in Pathological Gamblers
Addressing avoidable vision impairment in Mozambique and the Africa region
The Mozambique Eyecare Project was an international partnership to implement and research eye health education in Mozambique and the Africa region. An optometry degree was developed at Universidade Lúrio, Mozambique. In addition, existing eye health workers were upskilled with training. Researchers from various disciplines evaluated the project and its potential for impact on eye health in the region. The body of evidence generated from the resea…
MyShake Citizen Seismologists Help Launch Dual-Use Seismic Network in California
The MyShake app began delivering earthquake early warning alerts to users in California on October 17, 2019. The app delivers alerts from ShakeAlert when the estimated magnitude is 4.5 or greater to phones in the Modified Mercali Intensity (MMI) III or greater zone. MyShake users receive the alerts, but also serve as citizen seismologists for the system. They contribute accelerometer data allowing this dual-use network to serve as an alert delive…
Volunteering for development: What Does Best Practice Look Like
Volunteering for development is a long-standing form of development assistance. Vision Aid Overseas is an international NGO that works to enable people living in poverty to access affordable spectacles and eye care. Volunteering has been at the core of its interventions since its formation in 1985. In 2019 the organisation undertook a comprehensive review of its approach. A literature review and stakeholder consultation on volunteering for develo…
Lives turned upside down in Covid-19 times: Exploring disabled people's experiences in 5 low-and-middle income countries using narrative interviews
This article explores COVID-19 related experiences of disabled people in Bangladesh, Kenya, Nigeria, Nepal and Uganda. Narrative interviews generated storied responses, focussing on respondents' priorities, which enabled us to hear what was most significant for them and their families. 143 interviews were conducted online or by phone by 7 local researchers (3 disabled), with appropriate inclusive support. Nearly everyone was interviewed twice to …
Willingness to pay for improved vision in Mozambique
The burden of vision impairment due to uncorrected refractive error (needing spectacles) in Mozambique is known to be significant. To improve the planning and provision of eye health services, a better understanding of how vision is valued by patients is needed. The willingness to pay (WTP) for improved vision through correcting refractive error was investigated in Nampula, Mozambique, using stated choice and bidding game methodologies. The mean …
The Need and Desire for Inclusive Universities: A Perspective from Development Studies
In recent times there has been sustained momentum to address inequalities within university faculties and improve the diversity of students. Also, in response to historical and current social injustices, universities have sought to decolonize curricula. These progressive movements have had particular significance for departments focused on development studies and related subjects because the need to be inclusive is not only the right thing to do …
Mainstreaming disability inclusive employment in international development
People with disabilities are under-represented in the global workforce, and this problem is often particularly acute in the ‘global south’. This special issue seeks to provide new perspectives on why this is the case and comprises seven papers focused on disability inclusive employment. We deliberately wanted to place this collection in the Journal of International Development as a core development publication, rather than in a disability specifi…
Achieving disability inclusive employment – Are the current approaches deep enough
Diverse approaches to promoting disability inclusive employment aim to transform workplaces into truly inclusive environments, usually with intervention strategies targeting two main groups: employers and jobseekers with disabilities. However, they do not always consider other relevant stakeholders or address the relationships and interactions between diverse actors in the wider social ecosystem. These approaches often neglect deeper ‘vexing’ dif…
A tool to estimate the contribution of fishing gear modifications to reduce benthic impact
The ecological effects of seabed-penetrating fishing gears depend, in part, on the seabed penetration (P) of the gear. We present a gear impact tool that utilizes published data to provide estimated P of globally utilized seabed-penetrating fishing gears in different sediments and their resulting impact on biological communities. As P correlates with the depletion (d) of benthic fauna caused by fishing gears, we use P to calculate d, which can be…
How did South Africans with disabilities experience Covid-19? Results of an online survey
The evidence will inform the development of the national monitoring framework, recognised by the South African Government and emphasised by the United Nations as necessary to ensure the realisation of the rights of people with disabilities during future crises including pandemics
Disability, Religion, and Gender: Exploring Experiences of Exclusion in India Through an Intersectional Lens
Despite the existence of national and international laws and conventions to avoid discrimination in India, exclusion due to an intersection of disability, gender, and religious identity continues, resulting in marginalisation from society. This article investigates the lived experiences of people by exploring how aspects of their identity intersect to influence their inclusion or exclusion within society. Narrative interviews were undertaken with…
Spaces of Exclusion and Neglect: The Impact of Covid-19 on People With Disabilities in Bangladesh, Kenya, Nepal, Nigeria, and Uganda
This research investigates how COVID-19 has affected experiences of people with disabilities in low- and middle-income contexts. A qualitative approach was used to collect data as the pandemic progressed from 75 participants in Nigeria, Bangladesh, Nepal, Kenya, and Uganda. The research aimed to be inclusive of people with disabilities by asking the participants directly about their perspectives with a narrative interview method being employed to…
Looking Back to Move Development Forward – A Fireside Chat with Robert Chambers
This Archive Collection focuses on the articles contributed by Robert Chambers to the IDS Bulletin over the years, which explore various development dilemmas. In the spirit of participation, learning, and reflection (which have been such prominent features of Robert’s scholarship), it felt only right to speak to Robert himself to hear his views on some of the enduring development challenges; therefore, in December 2022 we visited our colleague an…
Glossary
This is the Glossary for IDS Bulletin 54.1A: Power, Poverty, and Knowledge – Reflecting on 50 Years of Learning with Robert Chambers
Introduction: Power, Poverty, and Knowledge – Reflecting on 50 Years of Learning with Robert Chambers
Robert Chambers is one of the most influential and prolific scholars to write about participation, poverty, and knowledge in development studies. His books, chapters, and papers have revolutionised the discipline, inspiring both participatory processes and more inclusive practice. Perhaps not as well known are the articles he authored for the IDS Bulletin. This Archive Collection explores Robert’s contributions to the journal across five decades …
Development brut - a new concept to understand and appreciate outsider development
Despite recent and renewed interest in the contribution of localization to development, significant questions remain. For example, if development practice happens outside of a formal development project, does it count as development? How do we collectively describe people working on the fringes (and beyond) of formal development and what do we call their practice? How do we value or measure their contributions within the development industry? As …
Advancing Disability-Inclusive Participatory Research: Lessons, Challenges, and Future Directions
Participatory research, which is built on the guiding philosophy of enabling and empowering people to play an active and influential role in research that affects their lives, is an approach which can contribute to realising meaningful inclusion. Drawing on experiences gained through developing and employing participatory research methods under the Disability Inclusive Development Inclusive Futures programme, this article explores the methodologi…
Introduction: Building Disability-Inclusive Futures
An estimated 1.3 billion people worldwide experience disability and are a part of human diversity. People with disabilities remain underrepresented in development programmes and research. People with disabilities must be included in development initiatives to ensure that no one is left behind. This issue presents a collection of articles written by researchers and practitioners involved in the UK aid-funded Disability Inclusive Development (DID) …
Political science (15 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Economic growth (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Economics (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Disability Rights and Representation (6 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Poverty (5 works)