David Howard

Dr David Howard is an Associate Professor in Sustainable Urban Development and Fellow of Kellogg College. He was previously a Senior Lecturer in the School of GeoSciences at the University of Edinburgh, following postdoctoral research at the University of Oxford, the City University of New York and the University of Melbourne. Outwith the University, he is a member of the Latin American and Caribbean Panel at the British Academy and a CNRS Associate at the Centre Afriques dans le Monde, Sciences Po Bordeaux. David has researched a number of areas relating to the contemporary Caribbean and Latin America, with a specific focus on urban neighbourhoods, migration, socially sustainable development, and basic service provision and housing. His current research interests as an urban geographer focus on access to basic services in low-income, informal neighbourhoods in Jamaica and the Dominican Republic, following periods of urban violence and during points at which community-driven reconstruction projects have emerged.