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Shailen Nandy is a Professor of International Social Policy at Cardiff University's School of Social Sciences, where he teaches undergraduate and postgraduate Social Policy programmes. He has extensive collaboration with global institutions including UNICEF, UNICAMP (Brazil), and the British Council. His research focuses on poverty analysis strategies, international development, and the role of social policy in achieving the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly child poverty and multidimensional deprivation. He holds a PhD in Social Policy from the University of Bristol (2010), MSc in Policy Research (2005), MSc in Economics from LSE (1996), and a BA in Economics & International Relations from the University of Reading (1995).
Research interests include global poverty measurement techniques, adaptive preferences theory, caste/class impacts on child welfare, and the intersection of migration, urbanization, and malnutrition dynamics. His work spans multiple continents with notable projects in West/Central Africa, South Asia, South America, and East Asia. Key recent projects involve developing SDG-aligned poverty indicators for India, South Korea, Tanzania, Uganda, and Peru through UNICEF partnerships and grants like the Newton Fund. He also contributed to the Townsend Centre for International Poverty Research at the University of Bristol.
Grant activities include a 2020-21 ESRC-GCRF project on African housing conditions and SARS-CoV-2 prevention, a 2019 Newton Fund collaboration on Peru's nutrition dynamics, and a 2017-18 project with UNICEF Uganda integrating child poverty analysis into national statistics. Additional grants include Hilton Foundation training for SDG implementation and Wallenberg Foundation global poverty analysis.
Advisory roles include postgraduate supervision on global poverty and inequality topics. His work with international organizations like WHO and DFID emphasizes practical policy applications. He is a co-author of multiple influential reports including 'The State of Mainland Tanzania's Children' (2024) and 'Multidimensional Child Poverty in Uganda' (2024). His research bridges academic analysis with actionable insights for national statistical systems and development agencies.
