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Tessa Lewin - Research Officer

Participation Power and Social Change
T: +44 (0)1273 915736
E: t.lewin@ids.ac.uk

Thematic Expertise:
Capacity Development; Children and Youth; Gender; Gender Justice; Health; ICTs; Participatory methodologies; Politics and Power; Participation Power and Politics; Unruly Politics; Sexuality; Water and Sanitation.

Tessa Lewin is a Zimbabwean/South African currently based in the UK. She is a social scientist and digital media artist with experience in action research and project management. She is a leading innovator in the use of diverse audio-visual technologies in development research, with substantial experience as a trainer in this regard.

She is currently a Research Officer in the Participation Power and Social Change team at the Institute of Development Studies, and Communications Manager for Pathways of Women’s Empowerment.

Thematic Interest

Media, communication, digital technology, gender, sexuality, film, arts-based and visual methodologies.

Selected other Projects

Making All Voices Count: A Grand Challenge for Development (MAVC) is a four-year $45 million fund to support innovation, scaling-up, and research that will deepen existing innovations and help harness new technologies to enable citizen engagement and government responsiveness.

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International research and communications programme finding out what works to enhance women’s empowerment

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New Roles for Communication in Development?

IDS Bulletin 43.5 (2012)
Lewin, T., Harvey, B. and Page, S.

Sexuality and Empowerment: An Intimate Connection

Pathways Policy Paper (2011)
Hawkins, K.,Cornwall, A. and Lewin, T.

Digital Storytelling

PLA Notes 63 (2011)
Lewin, T.

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