Doctor Francine Pickup
Nationality: United Kingdom
Year: 2000
Subject Area: Social Sciences
Since being awarded a Wingate scholarship in 2000, I completed my PhD on ‘Local Level Responses to New Market Forces in the Industrial Urals’ (2002) and published an article in Work, Employment and Society on livelihoods in towns and villages in Russia. In parallel, I published a book with Oxfam on ‘Ending Violence against Women: A Challenge for Humanitarian and Development Work’ (2001). My career changed direction when I took on work as a consultant for the International Labour Organisation (ILO), Oxfam GB, World Bank, Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) before spending several years in the occupied Palestinian territory and Lebanon with the UN. I have used this opportunity to publish a number of articles on humanitarian aid in the Middle East in Disasters and Humanitarian Exchange. In 2006, I moved to New York as an Evaluation Officer in UNOCHA’s Policy Development and Studies Branch.