Research and Development

Adi holds a Doctorate from Oxford Brookes University, a Masters (with Distinction) from Imperial College and the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, and a B-Tech in Engineering from Hertfordshire University. He has taken his post-graduate academic background deeply into his professional engagements, bringing robust research methodologies, design, approaches, data collection and analysis into programmatic applications, i.e. monitoring, evaluation and learning systems and instruments.

Research Fields

International development: policy, programme, practice, strategy, trends
International development themes: governance, conflict, DRR/M, CDD/R, livelihoods, migration, refugees, Post-disaster recovery and reconstruction
Leadership and followership: philosophy and practice, trends, models

Research Activities

Short term research projects (home-based)
Authoring and co-authoring of research articles and papers
Visiting lectures and assignments

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Testimonials

Research and analysis

“I supervised Adi’s PhD at Oxford Brookes University. He was one of my best students – articulate, thorough, and clear minded about what he wanted to achieve. His research work was based on expert knowledge of the subject gained through both practice and wide reading, then deeply enhanced through the process and findings of his research. He used adaptation and ingenuity in order to overcome the huge international and political challenges of his project, with the result that his conceptualisation, design and implementation achieved the highest standards. His appropriate use of mixed methods resulted in a rich accumulation of data which was meticulously analysed to produce well-rounded and significant conclusions. His project broke new ground by addressing a previously neglected aspect of international humanitarian and development assistance leadership, with results that will have a major impact on the organisations in this field. He must now be regarded as a leading expert in this subject.”

Dr Nicholas Walliman – Senior Lecturer, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK

Research under challenging conditions

In 2010 Adi successfully completed an MSc in Management and Development with University of London through its international academy. He passed with a distinction and notably, he also achieved an excellent distinction level mark of 79 in his dissertation. Completing a demanding Masters programme through distance learning studying part-time over a number of years, demands a great deal of commitment, especially when also engaged in demanding work roles.

Adi’s achievement in completing this so successfully demonstrates his ability to work independently and also successfully study at the postgraduate level. He has considerable relevant work experience gained in a variety of roles and management positions over the last 12 years and has worked extensively in international humanitarian and development organisations (IHDO), in Sri Lanka, Democratic Republic of Congo, India, Haiti, and Pakistan.

Jon Gregson – SOAS Tutor, University of London International Academy

Monitoring, evaluation and learning

“As a Statistician in the area of statistical methodology it is sometimes difficult to find the necessary appreciation from Programme Leaders to apply the required methodological rigour, as this is most of the times associated with an increase in the implementation effort. However, Dr. Walker is one of only a few Programme Leaders that I have worked with that takes seriously the inclusion of robust and systematic research methodologies for monitoring, evaluation, analysis and learning in his work, whilst in parallel developing knowledge building capacity for these approaches in his teams and with his host government counterparts.

Based on his experiences using Randomised Controlled Trials (RCT) and quasi-experimental comparative analysis within a target population of over 2 million people in DR. Congo, we jointly developed the design and approach for an RCT in Pakistan suitable for small and medium sized projects by incorporating spatial information into the design. Applying a base, mid and end line surveying system using state of the art Computer Assisted Personal Interviewing (CAPI) techniques, we implemented the proposed design with the methodological rigour required for a statically sound measurement of the attributable effect.

Given its almost unique nature within GIZ worldwide, Dr. Walker and I were requested by GIZ Headquarters to present the design and approach at an international conference on M&E at the prestigious German Institute for Learning and Development. A large governance programme in Pakistan, subsequently built on this ‘best practice methodology’ for their own results-based monitoring system, funded by the German and Swiss Governments.”

Dr. Michael Wild – Senior Statistician/Sampling Expert, the World Bank, Washington, US

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