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Leslie Silver International Faculty

Applied Global Ethics

Study Abroad

Study Abroad

Study Abroad

Oriel Kenny

Oriel Kenny is a Lecturer in Development Studies.  She studied rural environmental studies at Wye College, London with a view to working overseas and after periods working on farms and travelling and working in Australia and Malaysia she applied to work with VSO ‘with problem agriculture and women’ and found herself on Marsabit mountain in the middle of a desert! 

She stayed in Kenya for over four years, in Marsabit and Samburu districts, working at grassroots level with Kenyan local government and an international NGO and remembers this as a formative and enlightening experience. 

Subsequently returning to the UK to study agricultural economics she then worked for DFID in Bolivia in a Bolivian/ UK managed agricultural research institution looking at small farmers’ experiences with cover crops and livestock as alternatives to slash and burn in the eastern Amazon. 

After completion of a PGCE, she lectured at The Bradford Centre for International Development and undertook many short term research and consultancy assignments in Ghana, Nicaragua, Chile, Kenya, Uganda and South Africa and a long term leave of absence to work as social development advisor to the department of feeder roads in Ghana, involved in scaling-up public participation in development planning.

Key research interests are community participation, rural sustainability and gender.