Research Inequalities of the Global South and Global North
MODERATOR | Genevieve Haupt Ronnie is the Community of Practice Lead with the GPI. She is also the Country Lead for qualitative data collection for the Scale-Up of Parenting Evaluation Research (SUPER) study. She is a Junior Research Fellow at the Centre for Social Science Research (CSSR) at the University of Cape Town. She has a keen interest in all aspects of equality and how it affects services and rights for all, especially young people.
Before joining CSSR, she worked as a Researcher and Project Manager at the Center for Innovation in Learning and Teaching at UCT, on a number of collaborative research studies investigating personal mobile devices use in teaching and learning. Prior to this, Genevieve worked in the Education and Skills Development Unit at the Human Sciences Research Council from 2009-2015 as a Junior Researcher in the areas of social justice and inequalities in the broader realm of education. She holds a Master's degree in Research Psychology from the University of the Western Cape.
Zamakhanya Makhanya is an accomplished mental health professional with a strong educational background, holding a Master of Arts in clinical psychology from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, and a Master of Public Health in community health sciences from Tulane University, USA. She has served in various clinical roles in disadvantaged communities around Johannesburg, contributing to her diverse research experience, including adolescent mental health research and trial work.
As a trial psychologist, she played a crucial role in an adolescent depression randomised control trial at the Wits/MRC Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit. She also gained research experience as a research assistant at the Scott S. Cowen Institute for Public Education Initiatives at Tulane University.
Dr Jamie Lachman is the Lead Principal Investigator of the Global Parenting Initiative, and leads the Evaluate theme. He is a Senior Research and Teaching Fellow in the Department of Social Policy and Intervention at the University of Oxford Department.
He has over 20 years of experience developing, testing, and scaling up family and parenting programmes to reduce violence against children and improve child wellbeing in low- and middle-income countries. A co-founder of Parenting for Lifelong Health, the digital and in-person programmes and resources that Jamie has co-developed have reached over 210 million beneficiaries in 198 countries and territories.
Dr Godfrey Siu is the Facilitate Lead on the Global Parenting Initiative. He is a behavioural scientist with training in public health and medical anthropology and sociology, and currently works as Senior Lecturer in the Department of Child Health and Development at Makerere University, Uganda.
His broad interests lie in the potential health contribution that an explicit focus on gender and masculinity can bring to men, women, and their families. His Doctoral research titled ‘Individuality, Masculine Respectability, and Reputation: exploring the Link between Men's Uptake of HIV Treatment and Their Masculinity in Rural Eastern Uganda’ examined male gender norms and their link with men’s health in Eastern Uganda. He has published several articles on this topic, and his current work focuses on evaluating interventions for parenting and families to reduce sexual and gender-based violence and child abuse and on understanding men’s risk relationships with adolescent girls and young women in the context of HIV, as well as how to improve male involvement.
Dr. Liane Peña Alampay is a Senior Researcher on the Parenting within the Social Welfare System in the Philippines Study. She is a Professor of Psychology at the Ateneo de Manila University. A developmental psychologist, her research focuses on parenting and its association with child and adolescent development, cultural contexts of parenting and family relationships, and interventions for children and families at risk.
She is the Principal Investigator of Parenting for Lifelong Health in the Philippines, a UNICEF and WHO global initiative that delivers and tests evidence-based parenting interventions to prevent child maltreatment among low-income families. Her research and policy work has contributed to developing and implementing national child protection policies, such as the Juvenile Justice and Welfare Act, the National Policy on Protection of Children in Schools, and the Anti-Bullying Act.
Dr Joyce Wamoyi is a Principal Investigator on the ParentApp for Teens and ParentApp for Kids Studies, Tanzania. She holds a position as a Social and Behavioural Researcher at the National Institute for Medical Research, Tanzania. She has vast experience in areas of parenting and family context and how it influences child behaviour and outcomes; she also brings almost a decade of project experience on the Structural drivers of HIV risk.
She contributes expertise on influencing parenting and children, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa, as well as with qualitative research methods, ensuring that our research with children, parents, and other vulnerable populations is conducted ethically. Her previous work on Parenting for Lifelong Health (PLH) includes leading the evaluation of the PLH Tanzania in-person delivery and piloting of the ParentChat, ParentText, and hybrid delivery.
Dr Wamoyi is currently a member of the WHO Behavioural Insights Technical Advisory Group (TAG), where she contributes successfully to the development of behavioural considerations.
Marianne Vital l is Co-Chief Editor of the Graduate Inequality Review, a student-led publication based in the Department of Social Policy and Intervention (DSPI) at the University of Oxford. As a doctoral researcher in social policy at DSPI, she focuses on school-to-work transitions, focusing on young people not in education, employment, or training (NEET) in the Philippines. She aims to investigate the reasons and consequences of this phenomenon in a developing country context, applying a Life Course perspective and using quantitative methods. Prior to her DPhil studies, Marianne accumulated 14 years of experience in economic research and project management. She worked with organizations such as the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, government agencies, and think tanks. Additionally, she served as a senior economics lecturer at three academic institutions in the Philippines. Marianne earned her MPhil from the University of Cambridge, and obtained her Master’s and Bachelor's degrees in Economics at the University of the Philippines.
