Jessica Lucas
Jessica is currently a HR Officer within the DPIR HR Team. The HR Officer works closely alongside the HR Manager, Senior HR Officer and Professional Services Teams within DPIR and other divisions to provide a structured and professional service for all DPIR staff. Ensuring compliance with HR regulations and standards.
Before working for DPIR, Jessica worked as an Administrative Officer at the University of Southampton, within the School of Electronics and Computer Science.
To Have and to Hold: The Determinants of Insurgent Gender Governance
Using Machine Learning to Estimate Multidimensional Poverty
The Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) is a measure of poverty that goes beyond income, incorporating dimensions such as education, health, and living standards for a more comprehensive view. The Human Development Report Office of the United Nations Development Programme (HDRO/UNDP) and Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) release the global multidimensional poverty index estimates annually. The MPI typically relies on Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) and Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS), however, these sources have limitations due to data gaps.
Multidimensional deprivation among Italian youth
In recent decades, young individuals in Italy have faced increasing precariousness in their employment, fragmented career paths, prolonged transitions to adulthood, low social mobility, and growing inequalities. Given the unique challenges faced by this segment of the population, it is crucial to gain a comprehensive understanding of their current well-being and to track changes over time.
Poverty and its many faces: An analytical framework for deprivation interlinkages
How do you measure the interlinkages between deprivations in diverse dimensions of human wellbeing? This seminar proposes an analytical framework for the popular Alkire-Foster approach to multidimensional poverty measurement, which permits a more granular view on the overlap or interlinkage of deprivations. Dr Nicolai Suppa will discuss how this approach can be applied in different settings and how it can inform policymakers.
A New Axis of Upheaval? North Korea, Russia, China, and others—why we should care
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 has catalysed a renewed partnership between Moscow and its Cold War client of Pyongyang. The two states have not only signed a mutual defence pact, but in addition to sending artillery and missiles to Russia, North Korea has also deployed over 11,000 troops to aid Putin’s war. At the same time, China has remained obstinate in its reluctance to comment on the burgeoning North Korea-Russia ties, despite continuing to exchange dual-use technologies with Russia.
Desmond King releases timely lecture text on ‘American Political Violence’
Commodity Price Shocks and Quality of Employment in Peru
The 2000s commodities boom spurred a period of high economic growth across Latin America. In Peru, this "super cycle" was primarily driven by a surge in mining exports, which expanded by a factor of 7.5 between 2001 and 2013. This boom has been associated with poverty reduction in mining areas and with the creation of both direct and indirect employment opportunities. However, the quality of these mining-related jobs remains underexplored.
Resilient Human Development: Advancing human development amidst shocks
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