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Title: Professor Job Title: Director of Developing Country Research Tel: +44 (0)131 650 4321 Fax: +44 (0)131 650 6535 Email: james.smith@ed.ac.uk Building: Centre of African Studies, The University of Edinburgh, Chrystal Macmillan Building, Edinburgh, EH8 9LD Room Number: 4.06
James has an undergraduate degree in Geography and Environmental Science (University of Dundee, 1995), a Masters degree in Geography and Development (University of the Witwatersrand, 1998) and a PhD in Environment and Development (University of the Witwatersrand, 2001).
After his PhD, James held a tutorship and a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of the Witwatersrand and worked with Oxfam Southern Africa. He then held a research fellowship in the ESRC Innogen Centre at the University of Edinburgh before moving to the Centre of African Studies, initially as a Lecturer, in 2005. He was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2006 and appointed Co-director of the Centre of African Studies in 2008.
In 2010 James was appointed Director of the new Global Development Academy at Edinburgh and appointed to a personal chair in African and Development Studies. He is also Director of Developing Country Research in the ESRC Innogen Centre and holds a Senior Visiting Fellowship in Development Policy and Practice at the Open University.
James is an advisor on DfID's Research Into Use programme and has experience working with donors, development agencies and NGOs including DfID, IDRC, CIDA, the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, the World Bank, the Food and Agriculture Organization, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Oxfam and the New Partnership for Africa's Development.
James contributes to several courses in the MSc in Africa and International Development, the MSc in African Studies and the MSc in Science, Technology and International Development at the University of Edinburgh. He also work closely with the Nairobi-based African Centre of Technology Studies in running capacity building workshops around science policy for African policymakers.
James supervises students working on development issues in Africa and elsewhere, and particularly students working on the relationship between science, technology and development.
Further information about James can be found on his University of Edinburgh Profile Page.
Books:
Smith, J. (2010) Biofuels and the Globalisation of Risk, Zed Books, London (forthcoming)
Chataway, J., Clark, N., Hall, A. and Smith, J. (2010) Institutional Change and Innovation: Case Studies from the CG System, United Nations University Press, Tokyo (forthcoming)
Smith, James (2009) Technology for Development, Zed Books,
Lyall, C., Papaioannou, T. and Smith, J. (eds) (2009), The Limits to Governance: The Challenges of Policy Making for the New Life Sciences, Aldershot, Ashgate
Clark, N., Mugabe, J. and Smith, J. (2007) Biotechnology Policy in Africa, African Centre of Technology Studies, Nairobi.
Book chapters:
Lyall, C., Papaioannou, T. and Smith, J. (2009) 'The Challenge of Policy Making' in The Limits to Governance: The Challenges of Policy Making for the New Life Sciences' (Eds. Lyall, C; Papaioannou, T. and Smith, J.) Aldershot, Ashgate, Chapter 1,
Lyall, C., Papaioannou, T. and Smith, J. (2009) 'Governance in Action for the Life Sciences: Some Lessons For Policy' on The Limits to Governance: The Challenges of Policy Making for the New Life Sciences' (Eds. Lyall, C; Papaioannou, T. and Smith, J.) Aldershot, Ashgate, Chapter 12
Chataway, J., Robbins, P. and Smith, J. (2009) New approaches to participation as institutional development and ‘systems building’ in science, technology and innovation: An exploration of frameworks and tools, in G. Wilson (ed), Environment, Development and Sustainability, Open University Press, London.
Chataway, C., Chatuvedi, C., Hanlin, R., Mugwagwa, J., Smith, J. and Wield, D. (2009) Building the case for systems of health innovation in Africa, in F. Kalua, A. Awotedu, L. Kamwanja and J. Saka (eds), Science, Technology and Innovation for Public Health in Africa. NEPAD Office of Science and Technology, Pretoria, Republic of South Africa, 7-52.
Chataway, C., Chatuvedi, C., Hanlin, R., Mugwagwa, J., Smith, J. and Wield, D. (2009) Technology trends and opportunities to combat diseases of the poor in Africa, in F. Kalua, A. Awotedu, L. Kamwanja and J. Saka (eds), Science, Technology and Innovation for Public Health in Africa. NEPAD Office of Science and Technology, Pretoria, Republic of South Africa, 53-94.
Journal articles:
Smith, J. (2010) Agricultural research and global food insecurity, Policy Arena in Journal of International Development (forthcoming).
Smith, J. (2010) Scientific responsibility and developmental complexity - a response to Rhodes and Sulston, European Journal of Development Research, 22(4) (forthcoming).
Molony, T. and Smith, J. (2010) Biofuels, food security and Africa, African Affairs, 109(436).
Smith J. (2010) New institutional arrangements for development, science and technology, Development, 53(1).
Smith J. (2009) Public-private partnerships and HIV vaccine research, HIV Therapy, 3(4), 345-350.
Rosiello A., Smith J. (2008) 'A sociological economy of HIV/AIDS vaccine partnerships: case studies from Africa and India', International Review of Sociology, Vol. 18 (2), pp. 283-299.
Hanlin, R., Chataway, J. and Smith, J. (2007) 'Global health public-private partnerships: IAVI, partnerships and capacity building', African Journal of Medicine and Medical Science, Vol.36, pp. 69-75
Chataway, J., Smith, J. and Wield, D. (2007) 'Shaping scientific excellence in agricultural research', Journal of International Biotechnology, Vol.9, Issue 2, pp.172-187
Harsh, M. and Smith, J. (2007) 'Technology, governance and place: Situating biotechnology in Kenya', Science and Public Policy, Vol.34, Issue 4, pp.251-260
Clark, N., Smith, J. and Hirvonen, M. (2007) ‘Livestock R&D in East and Southern Africa: An innovation systems perspective with special reference to the International Livestock Research Institute'. International Journal of Technology Management and Sustainable Development, 6 (1). pp. 9-24. ISSN 1474-2748
Clark N., Mugabe, J. and Smith, J. (2007) '‘Governing Agricultural Biotechnology in Africa: Building Public Confidence and Capacity for Policy-Making’, ACTS, Nairobi.
Smith, J., Chataway, J., Rosiello, A. and Hanlin, R. (2007) 'Rethinking vaccine R&D in developing countries: Introduction to this issue' International Journal of Technology Management and Sustainable Development, Vol. 6, Issue 1, pp. 3-7
Smith, J. (2007) Culturing development: bananas, petri dishes and "mad science" in Kenya, Journal of East African Studies, Vol. 1, Issue 2, pp.212-233
Chataway, J. and Smith, J. (2006). The International Aids Vaccine Initiative (IAVI): Is it getting new science and technology to the world's neglected majority?, World Development, Vol.34, Issue 1, pp.16-30
Smith, J. (2005) Globalising vulnerability: Impacts of subsidies and unfair trade on developing country agriculture, in Modern Agricultural Practices: their environmental, social and public health impacts edited by R. Hester, Society of Chemistry Press, York.
Smith, J. (2005) Context-bound knowledge production, capacity building and new product networks, Journal of International Development, Vol. 17, Issue 5, pp. 647 - 659
Chataway, J., Smith, J. and Wield, D. (2005) Partnerships for building science and technology capacity in Africa: Canadian and UK experience, Report produced for IDRC and DFID.
Vogel, C. H. and Smith, J. R. (2003) 'Acqua in una arida: acqua, sete e sviluppo lungo l'Africa Australe (Water in a Dry Land: Water, Thirst and Development across Southern Africa)', Afriche & Orienti: Rivista di Studi ai Confini tra Africa Mediterraneo e Medio Oriente, Bologna, 3/4.
Smith, J. (2003) 'Povert, potere e resistenza: sicurezza alimentare e sovranitin Africa Meridionale, Afriche & Orienti: Rivista di Studi ai Confini tra Africa Mediterraneo e Medio Oriente', Bologna, 2
Vogel, C. and Smith, J. (2003) The human and physical impacts of land degradation, in Global Desertification: Do Humans Cause Deserts?, edited by J.F. Reynolds and D.M. Stafford-Smith, Dahlem University Press, Berlin
Smith, J. (2003) 'Frontiers and freedoms: the WSSD and the end of sustainable development?', South African Geographical Journal, Vol. 85, Issue 2, pp.112-114
Vogel, C. H. and Smith, J. (2002) 'The politics of scarcity : conceptualising the current food security crisis in southern Africa : commentary', South African Journal of Science, Volume 98, Issue 7&8, pp.315-317
Smith, J. (2001) "Sustainable livelihoods programme proposal for southern African region. 2002/3-2004/5". Report to Oxfam Southern Africa.
Non-Peer Reviewed Publications
Molony, T. and Smith, J. (2010) Biofuels in Africa, African Yearbook 2010 Smith, J. (2010) ‘Response 'scientific responsibility and development' an article by Sir John Sulston’ European Journal of Development Research (one of two invited responses along with with Prof Melissa Leach of Sussex)
James' research interests revolve round the relationships between science, technology and development, more specifically the ways in which knowledge is constructed, valued and used in shaping 'science for development' in its many forms. He is currently heavily involved in the work of the ESRC Innogen Centre, looking at socio-economic and political aspects of genomics in developing countries, and the DfID-funded PISCES project, looking at bioenergy and biofuels in East Africa and South Asia.
James is involved in the following Innogen projects:
Keywords: Globalisation, governance and poverty; new development discourses; food security in the less developed world; development/technology interfaces; capacity building and governing technology.
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