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Dr Julia Chukwuma

Profile summary

  • Central Academic Staff
  • Lecturer in Economics
  • Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences
  • School of Social Sciences & Global Studies
  • Economics
  • julia.chukwuma

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Professional biography

I joined the Open University in October 2021 as a Lecturer in Economics. Prior to that, I have taught at Queen Mary University of London, SOAS and Goldsmiths University. I also worked with UNICEF’s social policy and emergency teams in Burundi, Mali and Senegal. I hold a PhD in Economics from SOAS.

Research interests

My main research interest lies in understanding how social policies (and more recently eco-social policies) are being conceptualised, developed and implemented in the African context, and to what effect. Primarily, my work focuses on the political economy of health policy development and implementation and global efforts to achieve Universal Health Coverage. I am interested in understanding how different interest groups, such as policymakers, civil society organisations, communities, health professionals or international organisations shape a healthcare system and influence how healthcare services are delivered and who can ultimately access them. My research approach is rooted in understanding the political context in which policies are developed, the causes of economic and social realities within a certain country-context (with a particular focus on Nigeria) as well as issues of inequality and power.

Teaching interests

I am currently working on the following module presentation & production teams:

- DD126 Economics in Context

- D113 Global Challenges: social science in action

- D217 Running the Economy

- DD320 Doing Economics

- D815 The Economics of Global and Social Challenges

Externally funded projects

Overcoming colonial continuities in the area of social protection: Learning from the past
RoleStart dateEnd dateFunding source
Co-investigator06 May 202431 Jan 2025German Federal Ministry TBC

This is a research project funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Co-operation and Development (BMZ) and commissioned by German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) to explore the overarching question: “How can low and middle income countries be supported in establishing, expanding and restructuring social protection programmes that are appropriate to their framework conditions and the values and norms prevailing in their societies?”. The project entails two country case studies, leading to country case study papers, and one overarching framework papers. These will be published as co-branded IDOS/CSGD working papers and lead into academic publications. The research will also be presented at a research workshop, to be organised separately by IDOS early 2025.

Publications

Implementing Health Policy in Nigeria: The Basic Health Care Provision Fund as a Catalyst for Achieving Universal Health Coverage? (2024)
Chukwuma, Julia Ngozi
Development and Change, 54(6) (pp. 1480-1503)

Introducing Economics Students to Marxist Political Economy: Mental and Physical Health in the Workplace (2024)
Deane, Kevin and Chukwuma, Julia
Review of Radical Political Economics ((Early access))

Decolonising global health (2024)
Chukwuma, Julia Ngozi
In: Dauncey, Emil; Desai, Vandana and Potter, Robert eds. The Companion to Development Studies (4th Edition)
ISBN : 9780429282348 | Publisher : Routledge | Published : London, UK

Global economic inequality, the great divergence, and the legacies of colonialism and enslavement (2024)
Shipman, Alan; Chukwuma, Julia Ngozi and Dauncey, Emil
In: Dauncey, Emil; Desai, Vandana and Potter, Robert eds. The Companion to Development Studies (4th Edition)
ISBN : 9780429282348 | Publisher : Routledge | Published : London, UK

COVID-19 in an African Context: What the Pandemic Has Taught Us About the Development Economics Curriculum and the Need for Reform (2023-07-29)
Deane, Kevin; Chukwuma, Julia and Lombardozzi, Lorena
In: Yusuf, Abdullah; Morelli, Carlo and Feraboli, Omar eds. Post-Crash Economics and the Covid Emergency in the Global Economy (pp. 49-68)
ISBN : 978-3-031-31604-3 | Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan

Economics and Global Health (2023)
Chukwuma, Julia and Deane, Kevin
In: La Placa, Vincent and Morgan, Julia eds. Social Science Perspectives on Global Public Health (pp. 28-37)
ISBN : 9780367652098 | Publisher : Routledge

Global ideas of welfare and the narrowing scope of social policy (2022-09)
Chukwuma, Julia Ngozi
SOAS University of London, London.

Health policy and changing perceptions of Universal Health Coverage (2022)
Chukwuma, Julia Ngozi
SOAS University of London, London, UK.