Prof David Sanderson

BA (Hons), DipArch, MSc, PhD

Director of CENDEP
Programme Leader Development and Emergency Practice

Profile

David trained and worked in architecture before taking a Masters degree in Development Practice at Oxford Brookes University in 1991. Since then he has undertaken project management, training, research and consultancies in development and emergencies in over 30 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, Europe and the Caribbean.

Between 1992-94 David was a Research Associate at Oxford Brookes University's Centre for Development and Emergency Practice (CENDEP). From 1994-98 he worked as Project Manager at the Oxford Centre for Disaster Studies, focusing on disaster risk reduction. Between 1998-2006 David worked for the NGO CARE International UK, firstly as Senior Technical and Policy Advisor and Head of the Policy Unit (1998-02), and subsequently for four years as Regional Manager for Southern and West Africa, based in CARE’s Regional Management Unit in South Africa.

In 2006 David returned to Brookes to become CENDEP's Director and Programme Leader for the Masters degree in Development and Emergency Practice (DEP). In this role David has undertaken professional engagements in India, Bangladesh, China, South Africa, Japan and Pakistan. He completed his PhD by published works in 2009, which brought together research and practice undertaken between 1995-2008, and was conferred Professor in 2010.

David's professional experience lies in urban poverty, disaster risk reduction and livelihoods. He has undertaken work for the UK Government's Department for International Development (DFID), Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC), European Commission (DiPECHO, EC), United States Agency for International Development (USAID), World Bank (EDI Section), United Nations (UNDP/UNDESA), Action by Churches Together (ACT), British Council, Christian Aid, Tear Fund and the Mott Foundation. He also sits on several NGO committees and is an external examiner at Coventry University.

Examples of recent publications and papers

Sanderson D, Sharma A, and Anderson, J (2012) NGO permanent housing 10 years after the Gujarat earthquake: revisiting the FICCI−CARE Gujarat rehabilitation programme, Environment and Urbanization, Vol 24 (1) April, P 1-15, London

Sanderson, D (2012) Building livelihoods of the most marginalised in urban areas. Strategic approaches from Dhaka in Environmental Hazards, January 2012, Earthscan, London

Sanderson, D (2011) Good design in urban shelter after disaster: lessons from development in Boundaries, Architecture for emergencies, PP 64-69, Oct-Dec 2011, 2, Italy

Lyons M, Schilderman T and Sanderson D (2011) Harnessing time: reflections on constraints to development, p 213-217, in Shelter after disaster, Environmental Hazards: Human and Policy Dimension, Burnell J and Sanderson D (eds), Routledge, Volume 10, Issue 3-4, 2011

Burnell J and Sanderson D. (eds) (2011), Whose reality counts? Shelter after disaster. p 189-192. Editorial in Shelter after disaster, Environmental Hazards: Human and Policy Dimension, Routledge, Volume 10, Issue 3-4, 2011

Sanderson D (2011) Livelihoods and disaster risk reduction, chapter in Handbook of Hazards, Disaster Risk Reduction and Management, Ed Wisner BV, Gaillard J and Kelman I, Routledge, London

Sanderson, D (2010) Architects are often the last people needed in disaster reconstruction, Article, The Guardian, 3 March

Sanderson, D (2009) Building livelihoods of the most marginalised in urban areas. Strategic approaches from Dhaka. Paper presented at the first World Conference on Humanitarian Studies at Groningen University, Netherland

McGuire W, Solana C, Kilburn C and Sanderson, D (2009) Improving communication during volcanic crises on small, vulnerable islands, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, P 63-75

Sanderson, D and Sharma, A (2008) Winners and losers from the 2001 Gujarat earthquake, Environment and Urbanization, Vol 20 (1) April, P 177-186

Sanderson, D (2007) When good intentions go bad, Public Opinion article, The Times, October 30

Sanderson, D and Hedley, D (2002) Strengthening urban livelihoods in Zambia: PUSH II and PROSPECT, P247-256 in Urban Livelihoods, a people centered approach to reducing poverty, Ed. Rakodi C and Lloyd-Jones T, Earthscan Publications, London

Sanderson, D (2002) Urban livelihoods, shocks and stresses, P116-130, in Planning in cities; sustainability and growth in the developing world, Ed Zetter, R and White, R, ITDG publishing

Rodericks, A and Sanderson, D (2002) A livelihoods context for disaster management, Red Cross World Disasters Report 2002, Chapter one, box 1.4, Geneva, 2002

Sanderson, D and Westley, K (2001) Participatory livelihoods assessment, Kosovo, CARE International UK Urban Briefing Note, January Sanderson, D (Ed) (2001) Ask the authorities for better services? How can we ask for anything when even the dogs bark at us? Istanbul+5, New York. CARE International UK, London

Sanderson, D (2000) Cities, Disasters and Livelihoods, Environment and Urbanization, Vol 12, No 2, Oct, P 93-102