Institute of Development Studies

Biography

Dr. Keetie Roelen is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies in the Vulnerability and Poverty Reduction team and a member of the Centre for Social Protection. She is a development economist by training with a PhD focused on the definition and measurement of child poverty and the use of such measures for social policy evaluation. She has extensive experience in working with international organizations such as UNICEF, World Bank and UNDP, performing research and policy advice work in South-East Asia and Central and Eastern Europe. She has performed quantitative and qualitative analyses of child poverty and social protection schemes and designed and delivered lectures and training courses for Masters students, professionals, practitioners and policy makers. Her work has been published in the form of peer-reviewed journal publications and book chapters, working papers and project reports.

Selected Projects and Recent Work

• Researching the Links Between Social Protection and Children’s Care
• A Study of Effective Referral Mechanisms to Strengthen Child and Social Protection in ESAR
• Lessons Learnt on Scaling Up Child Sensitive Social Protection Within Eastern and Southern Africa Programmes
• Study on Child Well-Being in Kazakhstan
• Child Vulnerability Assessment, UNICEF Myanmar

Thematic Expertise

Children and Youth; Poverty; Social Protection.

Geographic Expertise

Myanmar; Namibia; Viet Nam.

Selected Publications »»

• Roelen, K. and Camfield, L. (2012) 'A Mixed-method Taxonomy of Child Poverty: A Case Study from Rural Ethiopia' 76, Oxford:
• Roelen, K. and Delap, E. (2011) 'Concept Note - Researching the Links between Social Protection and Children’s Care' , Brighton: IDS
• Camfield, L. and Roelen, K. (2011) 'Household Trajectories in Rural Ethiopia – What can a Mixed Method Approach tell us about the Impact of Poverty on Children?', DEV Working Paper 34, The School of International Development, University of East Anglia, UK 34, Norwich:
• Devereux, S., Béné, C., Chopra, D., Koehler, G., Roelen, K., Sabates-Wheeler, R. and te Lintelo, D. (2011) 'Social Protection for Social Justice', IDS Bulletin 42.6, Brighton: IDS
• Roelen, K. (2011) 'Stopping Child Poverty in its Tracks: The Role for Social Protection in Vietnam', IDS Working Paper 371, Brighton: IDS
• Sabates-Wheeler, R. and Roelen, K. (2011) 'Transformative Social Protection Programming for Children and their Carers: a Gender Perspective', Gender & Development 19:2:179-194, London: Taylor and Francis
• Roelen, K. (2011) 'Girls in Transition—How to Build Evidence and Gain Insight', Child Indicators Research DOI 10.1007/s12187-011-9113-7, Springer
• Roelen, K., Edstrom, J., Butters, S., Sabates-Wheeler, R. and Davies, M (2011) 'Documentation of Child and HIV Sensitive Social Protection in the Eastern and Southern African Region'
• Notten, G. and Roelen, K. (2011) 'The Breadth of Child Poverty in Europe: An Investigation into Overlap and Accumulation of Deprivations', UNICEF Innocenti Working Paper 2011-04, Florence:
• Notten, G. and Roelen, K. (2011) 'Monitoring Child Well-being in the European Union: Measuring Cumulative Deprivation', UNICEF Innocenti Working Paper No. 2011-03, Florence:
• Notten, G. and Roelen, K. (2010) 'Cross-national Comparison of Monetary and Multidimensional Child Poverty in the European Union: Puzzling with the Few Pieces that the EU-SILC Provides', BWPI Working Paper 135
• Roelen, K., Gassmann, F. and de Neubourg, C. (2010) 'Child Poverty in Vietnam - Providing Insights Using a Country-Specific and Multidimensional Model', Social Indicators Research 1.98:129-145, Maastricht: Springer
• Roelen, K. (2010) 'Child Poverty – What’s in a Word?' in Vandenhole, W., Vranken, J. and De Boyser, K. (eds), Why Care? Children’s Rights and Child Poverty, Antwerp:
• Roelen, K. (2010) 'Social Welfare in Vietnam – a Curse or a Blessing for Poor Children?', Asian Social Work and Policy Review 4.2:66–83, Tokyo: Wiley-Blackwell
• Roelen, K. (2010) 'Girls in Transition – How to Build Evidence and Gain Insight' , Maastricht: