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Natalie Lovell

Natalie Lovell

Project Manager

Natalie Lovell is an APM certified Project Manager and works with researchers, knowledge and communications specialists across the institute.

Natalie’s role encompasses financial, contractual, and project management, including the oversight of contracts, subcontracts, reporting, budgeting, and stakeholder liaison. Additionally, Natalie supports the Project Management Unit (PMU) at IDS by streamlining processes and procedures and plays a pivotal role in coordinating and developing funding proposals. She earned her BA International Relations from the University of Leeds, and MA Gender Studies from Central European University in Budapest, Hungary.

Research

Project

Solidarity Network

As backlash against gender rights grows across the world, so does the resistance against it. Feminist and queer movements, organisations and activists are engaged in intense and difficult processes of developing and implementing strategies to counter this backlash. The Solidarity Network is a...

Project

Covid-19 Learning, Evidence and Research Programme in Bangladesh (CLEAR)

The Covid-19 Learning, Evidence and Research Programme in Bangladesh (CLEAR) is a 2.5 year FCDO-funded programme to support an evidence-informed Covid-19 response and recovery in Bangladesh. The pandemic has disrupted production in agriculture, industry and the informal sector- creating a new...

Natalie Lovell’s recent work

News

MEPCCC closing reflections: strategies for preserving heritage

On 25 February 2025, the University of Duhok hosted a conference titled ‘Preserving Cultural Heritage in Kurdistan - Iraq’. This event, organised in collaboration with the Institute of Development Studies, marked the end of the Middle East People’s Culture Conservation Collective (MEPCCC)...

15 April 2025

Past Event

Theory-based evaluations of Inclusive Business Programmes

The private sector has become an important partner in development interventions that aim to make market systems more favourable for smallholder producers and low-income consumers of food. In these programmes, public funds support private ventures. Theory based evaluations are widely used to...

31 May 2022

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