Claire Mcloughlin

Research Fellow, Governance and Social Development Resource Centre

International Development Department

Contact details

Telephone +44 (0)121 414 7592

Email c.mcloughlin@bham.ac.uk

International Development Department
School of Government and Society
Muirhead Tower
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston, Birmingham,
B15 2TT, United Kingdom

Qualifications

  • MA International Relations and World Order, University of Leicester
  • BA History and Politics, University of Leicester

Biography

Claire has been a Research Fellow in the Governance and Social Development Resource Centre (GSDRC) since 2004, providing research and consultancy inputs to DFID and AusAid advisers on a range of governance, conflict and social development policy issues. Her recent research has focused on the politics of basic service provision and the effects of service provision on state-building processes. She is currently completing her doctoral research in IDD on the relationship between access to basic services and processes of state legitimation in post-conflict situations. Prior to joining IDD, she worked for a number of years on migration and refugee policy as a civil servant in the UK Home Office.

Research

Research interests

  • Service delivery and state-building
  • Sources of state legitimacy in post-conflict situations
  • Political economy of public goods provision
  • Non-state service providers and relationships with the state

Current and recent projects

  • Part of an inter-disciplinary reserach team, led by University of Birmingham, conducting a rigorous review of non-state education, for DFID.
  • Supporting the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) on the service delivery stream of their flagship programme on Sustainable Governance Transitions.
  • Lead author of working paper on the ‘politics of what works’ in basic service provision, written for the Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre (ESID), University of Manchester
  • Supporting expert and co-writer of the OECD handbook on ‘contracting-out government functions and services in conflict-affected and fragile situations’.  
  • Author of GSDRC policymakers guide to Fragile States, produced for the UK Department for International Development (DFID).
  • Co-author of emerging issues paper on state capacity and non-state service delivery in fragile situations, produced for DFID.
  • Ongoing rapid response research on a variety of key and emerging governance, conflict and social development issues for DFID and AusAid.

Publications

Mcloughlin, C., and Harris, D., (2013), The politics of progress on water and sanitation in Colombo, Sri Lanka, ODI working paper, London: Overseas Development Institute

Mcloughlin, C., with Batley, R., (2012), The effects of sector characteristics on accountability relationships in service delivery, ODI working paper 350, London: Overseas Development Institute

Mcloughlin, C., and Batley, R., (2012), The politics of what works in service provision: an evidence-based review, working paper for the Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Programme

Scott, Z., Mcloughlin, C., and Marquette, H., (2012), Combining value for money with increased aid to fragile states: Welcome partnership or clash of agendas?, Crime, Law and Social Change, Volume 1, February 2012

Batley, R., McCourt, W., and Mcloughlin, C., (2012), The politics and governance of public services in developing countries, Public Management Review

Mcloughlin, C., (2011), Factors Affecting State-NGO Relations in Service Provision: Key Themes from the Literature, Public Administration and Development, Volume 31, Issue 4, pages 240–251

Batley, R., and Mcloughlin, C., (2010), Engagement with Non-State Service Providers in Fragile States: Reconciling State-Building and Service Delivery, Development Policy Review, Volume 28, Issue 2, pages 131–154

Mcloughlin, C. (2009), ‘Fragile States: A Topic Guide’, Governance and Social Development Resource Centre (GSDRC), University of Birmingham, Birmingham

Batley, R., and Mcloughlin, C. (2009), ‘State Capacity and Non-state Service Provision in Fragile and Conflict-affected States’, Unpublished paper prepared for the UK Department for International Development

Teamey, K., and Mcloughlin, C. (2009), ‘Understanding the dynamics of relationships between government agencies and non-state providers of basic services: Key issues emerging from the literature’, Non-governmental Public Action (NGPA) Working Paper Series, London School of Economics, London

Mcloughlin, C. (2008), ‘Political Economy Analysis: A Topic Guide’, Governance and Social Development Resource Centre (GSDRC), University of Birmingham, Birmingham

Mcloughlin, C. (2008) ‘Contracting NGOs to Deliver Basic Services: An Annotated Bibliography’, Whose Public Action? NGPA ESRC research project, University of Birmingham, International Development Department.

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