Sophia Cliff

Specified areas of interest include: natural resources, corruption, post-war development, community and female empowerment, ethical supply-chains, environmentally and socially sustainable business.

My preferred research methodology analyses individual actors and how they work together to create a functioning state - in order to help bridge the gap in research between individual humans, nation-states and the international levels-of-analysis - each area and level of research can learn from and build upon one another, to benefit each individual within our global community.

On a more human level, I am interested in how races, faiths, ethnicities and nations can work more closely together via their common humanity; increasingly important in today's globalised society.

Recently finished my masters dissertation entitled: 'The Role of Corruption in Determining Levels of Trust in Public Institutions: A Quantitative Institutional Analysis, utilising the Individual Unit of Observation'.

Currently working on a project focusing on PFM across Africa and another on developing an ethical supply-chain (starting in India) within the fashion industry business model.

I am now based in Ha Noi, Viet Nam, where I also teach.