Laura Camfield

Laura Camfield

Laura Camfield has worked in Development Studies for nearly 30 years, starting as an intern with the Aga Khan Rural Support Programme in Northern Pakistan and going on to hold senior roles on the governing bodies of both the Development Studies Association and the European Association of Development Research and Teaching, where she co-leads the Innovative methods task group with Keetie Roelen. Over the course of her career, she has secured extensive research funding, produced 73 peer‑reviewed journal articles, edited 11 special issues and 4 volumes, and contributed 18 refereed book chapters. She has supervised 19 doctoral candidates (18 to completion) and taught extensively across undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. She currently heads the Department of International Development at King’s College London (Laura Camfield | King's College London).

Laura’s research interests include wellbeing and poverty measurement, interdisciplinary and cross‑national research, mixed‑methods approaches, and research ethics and governance. She advised on the ESRC’s ethical framework and reviewed methodologies for the ESRC‑DFID Joint Fund for Poverty Alleviation Research. She has been a member of the BEIS Technical Expert Advisory Group since 2018 and is in the Chair pool of the UKRI Interdisciplinary Assessment College, reflecting her commitment to interdisciplinarity. Her current work focuses on innovative and decolonial methodologies, including shaping the methodological approach of the Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence (GAGE) programme, and on advancing the quality and ethics of qualitative and mixed‑methods evaluations.