Wolf Ellis
Associate
Previously Evidence for Development’s Research Officer, Wolf is continuing to work for EfD as an associate while studying for a PhD at King’s College London. His PhD research looks at livelihoods and food security in the UK.
Wolf has spent long periods of time working in Benin, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Malawi and Uganda, carrying out in-depth poverty, food security and livelihoods research with EfD’s NGO, university and UN agency partners in rural and urban areas and in refugee camps.
His work for EfD has included the collection and analysis of household and focus group data, the development of research methods, software and materials, conducting training and capacity-building activities with partner organisation staff and associates, managing field research teams, and organisational strategy and planning.
Wolf also teaches as part of EfD’s masters unit with the Department of Geography at King’s College London, and has taught on other modules including field trips to India.
Wolf joined Evidence for Development after researching livelihoods and economic policy, developing advocacy campaigns and working on knowledge-sharing programmes at VSO.
Wolf has a BSc in Politics from the University of Bristol and an MSc in International Public Policy from University College London.
Selected EfD blog posts
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18th February 2014
When evidence isn't clear
Practical and reliable estimates of wealth and poverty are becoming increasingly important as more countries introduce social protection systems, and as development programmes place a greater emphasis on targeting. However, there is not yet a widely-accepted ‘gold standard’ measuring method – and in the absence of this, it is difficult to assess the relative merits of […]
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8th December 2013
Helping to rebuild communities in northern Uganda
You might remember all the attention last year on stopping Joseph Kony and the LRA. For the past two weeks I’ve been with Self Help Africa (SHA) in a region of northern Uganda that was severely affected by the conflict – in many villages, a whole generation of young adults are missing – and there...
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27th November 2013
The Evidence for Development blog - a quick introduction
All of us at Evidence for Development are delighted to be launching our new website (generously designed pro bono by an anonymous-for-the-moment friend), complete with a section for blog posts. We’ll use these blogs to share EfD news and insights, start new development debates or add our own perspectives to existing ones. We’re hoping to...