Women in ID

#IWD2020: In conversation with Sandra Sequeira

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We celebrate International Women's Day 2020 by interviewing three women in our department at different stages of their academic career. They tell us about their career journeys, highlights and barriers they have faced as well as what hopes they have for the International Development industry. In this short podcast, we interview Dr Sandra Sequeira, Associate Professor of Development Economics. "The moment in which you realise that you have just identified a connection between issues that no one has thought about before and that this can somehow assist in understanding how the word world works and how you can make it world the world work better and I think that's absolute bliss and fortunately throughout my career I think I've had many of those opportunities of identifying moments in which you know the research can economically be well received from a scientific point of view but at the same time when you feed those findings back to partners in the field and you can experience first hand how evidence can change of government policy hopefully for the better." - Dr Sandra Sequeira Interviews conducted by Cherry Agarwal