Has your global development field research ever taken an unplanned detour, or even gone fully off-road? 

On Wednesday, November 1, 2023, the King Center on Global Development invites the Stanford graduate student community to join us for a panel discussion on how to adapt and recover—and even learn and thrive!—when the unexpected derails carefully laid field research plans.

Please join us a bit before noon to get lunch before the start of the discussion. 

About the Speakers

Alison Hoyt is an Assistant Professor of Earth System Science at Stanford University. Her work focuses on understanding how biogeochemical cycles respond to human impacts, with a particular focus on the most vulnerable and least understood carbon stocks in the tropics and the Arctic.

Melanie Hannebelle is a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Bioengineering at Stanford University. She is inventing open-source instruments to study infectious diseases and find new strategies to improve global health. She is passionate about open-source scientific hardware, education and health equity.

Nina Buchmann is a PhD student in economics at Stanford University. Her areas of interest include development economics and behavioral economics and she is particularly interested in issues related to gender, sexual assault and domestic violence. Prior to coming to Stanford, Buchmann worked as a research associate at JPAL/the Duke Development Lab and analyzed the impact of a large randomized control trial aiming to reduce child marriage and increase female empowerment in Bangladesh.

About the Moderator

Melanie Morten is a development economist and Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Stanford University. She is a faculty fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and the National Bureau for Economic Research. Morten is interested in how households respond to risk in developing countries, including using short term and temporary migration. Her work has been published in numerous journals including the Journal of Police Economy and the World Bank Economic Review.