Dr Sophie Harman

Senior Lecturer and Undergraduate Course Director

Department of International Politics

Email: Sophie.Harman.1@city.ac.uk

Telephone: +44 (0)20 7040 4511 

Dr Harman joined the Department in September 2008. Prior to this she was a Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation (CSGR), University of Warwick as part of the joint CSGR-UNDP Governance of HIV/AIDS project.

Research interests

Dr Harman's broad areas of academic interest are the World Bank, Global Governance, HIV/AIDS, feminist political economy, East Africa and the global politics of health and disease. She has published widely on the World Bank's role in the governance of global health with specific reference to HIV/AIDS in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.

Dr Harman is a trustee and member of the executive committee of the British International Studies Association (BISA), is an active member of the BISA Africa and International Studies working group and co-convenor of the BISA Global Health working group. She regularly attends international conferences and is often invited to comment on issues of global health financing and HIV/AIDS strategies in Africa by the media and policy-makers.

Her current research interests are the use of innovation in global health and global governance (with specific reference to performance-based funding and philanthropy) and the problem of irrationality in governing individual behaviour.

Publications

Books

• The New Political Economy of Global Health (Polity Press, forthcoming 2013)
• (Co-edited with David Williams) Governing the World? The Practice of Global Governance (Routledge, forthcoming 2013)
• Global Health Governance (Routledge Series on Global Institutions) (Routledge 2012)
• The World Bank and HIV/AIDS: Setting a Global Agenda (Routledge 2010)
• (Co-edited with Franklyn Lisk) Governance of HIV/AIDS Responses: Making Participation and Accountability Count (Routledge 2009)

Journal articles

• 'Governing health risk by buying behaviour' Political Studies (2011, 59:4)
• 'Introduction: Risk, perceptions of risk and global health governance' with Garrett Wallace Brown, Political Studies (2011, 59:4)
• 'Searching for an Executive Head? Leadership and UNAIDS' Global Governance (17.4, 2011)
• The Dual Feminisation of HIV/AIDS' Globalizations (2011, 8:2)
• 'Fighting HIV/AIDS: Reconfiguring the state?' Review of African Political Economy (2009, 36:121)
• 'Bottlenecks and benevolence: how the World Bank is helping communities to 'cope' with HIV/AIDS' Journal of Health Management (2009, 11:2, 279-313)
• 'The World Bank: Failing the Multi-Country AIDS Program (MAP): Failing HIV/AIDS' Global Governance (October-December 2007, 13:4, 485-492)
• 'Introduction: New Directions in International Relations and Africa' with William Brown, Stephen Hurt, Donna Lee and Karen Smith, Roundtable (2009, 98:402, 263-267)
• 'BOOK REVIEW: AIDS, Illness and African well-being', Journal of Modern African Studies (2009, 47:1)
• 'BOOK REVIEW: AIDS, South Africa, and the Politics of Knowledge', Journal of Modern African Studies (June 2008, 46:2)

Chapters in books

• 'Women and the MDGs: too little, too late, too gendered' in R.Wilkinson and D.Hulme Beyond the Millennium Development Goals (Routledge, 2013)
• 'The World Bank and Global Health' in O. Williams and A. Kay The Crisis of Global Health Governance: Challenges, Institutions and Political Economy (Palgrave 2009)
• 'The Causes, Contours and Consequences of Multi-Sectoralism within the HIV/AIDS response' in S. Harman and F.Lisk, Governance of HIV/AIDS Responses: Making Participation and Accountability Count (Routledge 2009)
• 'Introduction: Governance of the HIV/AIDS Response: making participation and accountability count' in S.Harman and F. Lisk, Governance of HIV/AIDS Responses: Making Participation and Accountability Count (Routledge 2009)

Research grants

Principal Investigator ESRC Seminar Series - African Agency in International Politics (2011)  Please see http://www.open.ac.uk/socialsciences/bisa-africa/african-agency/ for more information.

ESRC +3 Doctoral Studentship (2004-2007)

Consultancy work

Dr Harman has worked as a consultant to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on the Governance of HIV/AIDS.

Teaching

Dr Harman teaches the following undergraduate modules:

• IP1011 Theories of Global Politics
• IP1013 Actors in Global Politics
• IP3002 Global Governance

And the following postgraduate modules:

• IPM014 Global Politics of Health and Disease
• IPM017 Governing Global Politics
• IPM020 International Financial Institutions

PhD supervision

Dr Harman welcomes applications from prospective PhD students in the following areas:

• The World Bank
• HIV/AIDS
• Global Governance
• The Global Politics of Health

Current doctoral supervision

• Alejandro Pena - Global labour governance and the Southern Cone
• Bonfas Owinga - The Limitations of Civil Society in the post-Authoritarian Africa: a comparative study of Kenya and Zambia
• Helen Hawthorne - LDCs and the WTO (completed 2011)

Administration

Dr Harman is Director of Undergraduate Studies.