Russell Taylor
PhD
(European Studies) Thesis Student
Thesis Title
EU Development Funding: Prioritising Information
Academic Background
- BSc, University of Canterbury, Conferred 1998
- MSc (Hons), University of Canterbury, Conferred 2001
Room
National Centre for Research on Europe
Room 449
Contact Details
C/o NCRE
Postal address:
c/o National Centre for Research on Europe
Level 4 Commerce Building
University of Canterbury
Private Bag 4800
Christchurch
New Zealand
Details of Research
My research to date suggests that development programmes seem to vary in their degrees of failure or success. It seems that the trillions of dollars that have been spent on development programmes over the past few decades have shown little if any real benefit to the nations for which the fund may have been intended.
I hope that this study will contribute in some way to the evolution of development theory and development programmes so that people living in un-necessarily difficult situations in developing nations can gain more significant benefit from the large pool of aid related funding that already exists.
In the case of the EU, I argue that funding policy does not target information as a priority and consequently, EU development programmes do not enable the local communities to develop the capacity required to manage their situation. I am concerned that, in general EU development programmes do not “teach a man to fish”.
I will be using a case study (Tonga) as a model where Information has been the priority to development programmes in that nation and I will compare the Tongan case study to other EU funded development programmes to other ACP and European EU funded programmes.Research Interests
Sustainable management and development in developing nations
Recent Publications
Ewers, R.M., Taylor, R.C., 2010, Guide to New Zealand Beetles, In Press.
Harding J.S., Brown C., Jones F., Taylor R.C., 2007, Distribution and habitats of mosquito larvae in the Kingdom of Tonga, Australian Journal of Entomology 46, 342-348.
Harding J.S., Brown C., Jones F., Taylor R.C., 2006, A preliminary assessment of the distribution of mosquitoes in the Kingdom of Tonga: potential threats to biodiversity through invasive pathogens, University of Canterbury, University of Canterbury Research Report, 17 pages.
Milner A.M., Taylor R.C., Winterbourn M.J., 2001, Longitudinal distribution of macro-invertebrates in two glacier-fed New Zealand rivers. Freshwater Biology 46: 1765.
Taylor, R. C. and Ewers, R. M. 2003. The invertebrate fauna inhabiting tree holes in a red beech (Nothofagus fusca) tree. The Weta: Bulletin of the Entomological Society of New Zealand 25:24-27.
Taylor R.C., 2001, Macroinvertebrate community structure of glacial and non-glacial streams in South Westland, M.Sc. Thesis, University of Canterbury.