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Dr Jamelia Harris presented her research at international conferences
IER's Dr Jamelia Harris shared work from the project "Help or hindrance? Exploring the impact of foreign aid on local skills" at the . The presentation explored the many ways in which foreign aid can impact on skills development in developing countries, analysing direct, indirect and unintentional consequences of the aid-skills nexus.
At the , Dr Harris presented work from the project "Colonial legacies and the labour market in the English-speaking Caribbean". Focusing on the methodological design of the interdisciplinary project, the paper argues for the practice of mixed methods research to understand questions that span lengthy time periods and for which contextualisation is critical.