Narratives of varied everyday lives and linked approaches (NOVELLA), UCL Institute of Education London

Emma Wilson

Collaborating Partner of Family Lives and the Environment

Emma is the Collaborating Partner of Family Lives and the Environment project. She has supported the Novella team in the initial stages of the study to identify relevant cases for secondary analysis from the Young Lives India data set. She is currently collaborating with Natasha Shukla on a working paper, which will compare thematic and narrative analytical approaches to secondary data analysis, using cases from the Older Cohort of children and their caregivers in Andhra Pradesh.

Emma joined Young Lives in January 2012. She provides qualitative research support to the Young Lives team. She holds an MSc in Public Health in Developing Countries from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and an MA in Gender and International Development from the University of East Anglia. She previously spent one year in Bangladesh, where she worked as a gender adviser to the private sector development project, Swisscontact-Katalyst, and carried out research consultancies for the German development agency, GIZ, on health issues affecting workers in the ready-made garment sector. Emma has also worked on a number of international programmes for Population Services International and HelpAge International, both in London and Namibia.