CURRENT RESEARCH

Research grants from the ESRC, DFID and others have funded my ethnographic fieldwork in the Caribbean, Cambodia, China, Kenya and Zambia, and applied policy research in a number of countries in Asia and Africa. Currently my main fields of research are:

• The political economy of population and fertility, including the impact of economic and population policy reform on fertility in China; social institutions and fertility change among the Kikuyu of Kenya and the Gwembe Tonga of Zambia; household structure and livelihood strategies in Bequia Island, the Caribbean.
• Access and equity in health through a longitudinal study in Cambodia.
• Reproductive health and HIV/AIDS, including equity in HIV/AIDS-prevention social marketing; adolescent vulnerability to HIV/AIDS; social context of reproductive health.
• Qualitative research methodology, including the development and application of the peer ethnographic method in HIV/AIDS, health and livelihoods research.

My advisory work and commissioned research for governments, multilateral agencies (UN, EC, World Bank), and civil society organisations has taken me to over 40 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. Main areas of advisory expertise are in social, policy and institutional analysis in the health sector, and appraisal, planning, management, monitoring and evaluation of HIV/AIDS and reproductive health programmes.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Price NL & S Knibbs (forthcoming). How effective is peer education in addressing young people’s sexual and reproductive health in developing countries? Children and Society [ISSN 0951-0605]. Earlybird online version published September 2008 (doi:10.1111/j.1099-0860.2008.00175.x)
• Knibbs S & NL Price (2009) The impact and effectiveness of peer education in sexual and reproductive health programming: A case study from Cambodia. Development in Practice 19:1, 39-50 [ISSN 0961-4524].
• Hawkins K, NL Price & F Mussá (2009) Milking the cow: Young women’s constructions of identity, power and risk in transactional age-asymmetric sexual relationships in Maputo, Mozambique. Global Public Health 4:2 (March 2009) [ISSN 1744-1692] [doi:10.1080/17441690701589813]. 
• Jacobs B & NL Price (2008). A comparative study of the effectiveness of pre-identification and passive identification for hospital fee waivers at a rural Cambodian hospital. Studies in Health Services Organisation & Policy 23, 437-467 [ISSN 1370-6462]. Also appears in Health and Social Protection: Experiences from Cambodia, China and Lao, edited by Meessen B, Pei X, Criel B, Bloom G [ISBN 978-90-76070-31-5].
•  Jacobs B, NL Price & S Sam (2007). Do exemptions from user fees mean free access to health services? A case study from a rural Cambodian hospital. Tropical Medicine & International Health, 12:11.
• Price NL & K Hawkins (2007) A conceptual framework for the social analysis of reproductive health. Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 25:1, 24-36
• Jacobs B, NL Price & SO Sam (2007) A sustainability assessment of a health equity fund initiative in Cambodia. International Journal of Health Planning & Management 22:3, 183-203
• Jacobs B & NL Price (2006) Improving access for the poorest to public sector health services: Insights from Kirivong Operational Health District in Cambodia. Health Policy and Planning 21:1, 27-39.
• Price NL and D Pokharel (2005) Using key informant monitoring in safe motherhood programming in Nepal (with D Pokharel). Development in Practice 15:2, 151-164.
• Price NL (2005) The peer ethnographic method for health research: theoretical and methodological reflections. In Holland, J and J Campbell (eds) Methods in Development Research. London: Intermediate Technology. pp149-162.
• Jacobs B & NL Price (2004) The impact of the introduction of user fees at a District Hospital in Cambodia (with B Jacobs) Health Policy & Planning 19:5, 311-322.
• Jacobs B & NL Price (2003) Community participation in externally-funded health programmes: Lessons from Cambodia (with B Jacobs) Health Policy and Planning 18:4, 399-410.
• Price NL & K Hawkins (2002) Researching sexual and reproductive behaviour: A peer ethnographic approach. Social Science and Medicine 55:8, 1327-1338.
• Price NL (2001) The performance of social marketing in reaching the poor and vulnerable in AIDS control programmes. Health Policy and Planning 16:3, 231-239.
• Price NL & K Hawkins (2001) Young people’s sexual and reproductive health: towards a framework for action (with K Hawkins) in Managing Reproductive Life: Cross-Cultural Themes in Sexuality and Fertility, editor Soraya Tremayne. Oxford: Berghahn Books, pp 194-220.
• Hawkins K & NL price (2001) From international policy to local reality: Women’s reproductive health strategies in El Alto, Bolivia. (with K Hawkins) in Managing Reproductive Life: Cross-Cultural Themes in Sexuality & Fertility, editor S. Tremayne. Oxford: Berghahn Books, pp 52-70.
• Price NL & K Hawkins (2000) A Peer Ethnographic Approach to Social Appraisal & Monitoring of Sexual and Reproductive Health Programmes (with K Hawkins) Swansea University.
• Hawkins K & NL Price (2000) The Social Context of Sexual and Reproductive Health: A Framework for Social Analysis and Monitoring (with K Hawkins) Swansea University.
• Price NL & NH Thomas (1999) Continuity and change in the Gwembe Valley Tonga family and their relevance to demography's nucleation thesis. Africa 69:4, 510-534. 1999
• Thomas NH & NL Price (1999) The role of development in global fertility decline (with N Thomas) Futures: The Journal of Forecasting, Planning and Policy 31:8, 779-802.
• Price NL (1999) Social Marketing: Issues for Appraisal, Monitoring and Evaluation, London: Options Consultancy Services for DFID.
• Price NL (1998) Institutional determinants of fertility in Gwembe Tonga society, Social Sciences in Health 4:1, 25-44
• Price NL (1996) The changing value of children among the Kikuyu of Central Province Kenya, Africa 66:3, 411-437
• Thomas NH & NL Price (1996) The evolution of population policy in rural China, Health Policy & Planning 11:1, 21-29
• Price NL (1994) Contraceptive social marketing: pros and cons, Reproductive Health Matters No.3, 50-55.
• Price NL (1988) Behind the Planter's Back: Lower Class Responses to Marginality in Bequia Island, St Vincent. London: MacMillan Books. 272 pp. 1988
   

SELECTED REPORTS

• A Baseline for the Caribbean Regional HIV/AIDS Prevention Programme. Report to the Caribbean Regional HIV/AIDS Prevention Programme funded by the Governments of Germany and Canada, and by PANCAP (the Pan Caribbean Partnership against HIV/AIDS). November 2006; updated February 2007.
• Research and Monitoring Plan. Report to the Caribbean Regional HIV/AIDS Prevention Programme funded by the Governments of Germany and Canada, and by PACAP (the Pan Caribbean Partnership against HIV/AIDS). November 2005.
• Impact Assessment of the Family Reproductive Health Programme. Report to Save the Children Ghana and Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs. August 2004.
• Synthesis Report. Addressing Reproductive Rights and Health Needs of Young People after ICPD. The Contribution of UNFPA and IPPF. German Ministry of Economic Affairs (BMZ). January 2004.
• Tanzania Country Report. Addressing Reproductive Rights and Health Needs of Young People after ICPD: The Contribution of UNFPA & IPPF. German Ministry of Economic Affairs. May 2003.
• Inception Report and Methodology for the Evaluation of UNFPA and IPPF Contribution to Addressing the Reproductive Rights and Health Needs of Young People after ICPD. Report to the Evaluation Steering Group (seven bilateral and multilateral donors). January 2003.
• Cambodia: DFID Support for the National Response to HIV/AIDS. (with others). For DFID and Government of Cambodia. Programme Memorandum and Annexes. 2002.
• Cambodia: An Evaluation of the Health Sector Reform Programme. (with others). Government of Cambodia, DFID, WHO, World Bank, Asian Development Bank. 2001
• Vietnam: A Programme to Strengthen HIV Prevention. (with others) For DFID, WHO, Government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Programme Memorandum. 2001.
• Ghana: A Reproductive Health Social Monitoring Strategy. For Save the Children Ghana. 2001
• International Planned Parenthood Federation: Evaluation of the Impact i3 (Youth) Project. (contributor). For IPPF. 2001
• Cambodia: A Health Sector Review. (with others). For the Ministry of Health Cambodia and WHO/DFID/World Bank/ADB. 2001
• Nepal Safer Motherhood Project: Phase 2 Design. Options Consultancy Services Ltd, for DFID 2000
• Cambodia: Project Memorandum for a New Five-Year Condom Social Marketing Programme. For DFID and Population Service International. 2000.
• Kenya: Project Completion Report of the Population Services International (PSI) Condom Social Marketing Programme. For DFID. 2000.

SELECTED RESEARCH GRANTS

• Knowledge Transfer Partnership Project. Lead Academic Supervisor. April 2007 to March 2009 (£134,385). Major focus of project: to develop a behaviour change communications application of the PEER (participatory ethnographic evaluation and research) method. Funded by the UK Department for Trade and Industry (DTI), the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), and Options Consultancy Services Ltd.
• Knowledge Transfer Partnership Project. Lead Academic Supervisor. May 2005 to April 2007 (grant £115,800). Major focus of project: to field-test and refine the PEER (participatory ethnographic evaluation and research) method. Funded by the UK Department for Trade and Industry (DTI), the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), and Options Consultancy Services Ltd.
• Impact Study, Ghana. Team leader on a major research project (2002-2004) exploring the impact of institutional strengthening of community based organisations on reproductive and family health in nine sites (for Save the Children Ghana, funded by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs).
• Sustainable Improvements in the Sexual and Reproductive Health of Poor People. Principal investigator (DFID research grant, £200,000: 1998-2004). Fieldwork in Zambia, Nepal, Ghana, Cambodia, Burma and Jordan on: (i) the effectiveness of cost-sharing and community-based strategies in meeting the health service needs of poor and marginalised groups; (ii) design and application of social research methodologies for health and HIV/AIDS.
• Population Policy, Fertility and Rural Development in Jiangsu Province, China. A demographic anthropological fieldwork-based study of the inter-relationship between economic and population policy reform, and demand for children, Jiangsu Province, 1993.
• Ghana National Health Research Unit. Lead adviser (1990-94) and research manager to ODA-funded project: data collection, analysis and dissemination; establishment and coordination of a UK network of research institutions providing technical support to the Unit. Ex-post ODA evaluation revealed significant achievement against project objectives, including institutional and research sustainability.
• Culture and Fertility in Sub Saharan Africa. Principal Investigator (ODA research grant, £140,000 1989-1992). Ethnographic fieldwork Zambia and Kenya on cultural and political  economic context of fertility and family formation. National seminar held in Kenya in 1992 to present results to government, donors, NGOs
• Sustaining Primary Health Care. Research (1991-93) for SCF (Save The Children Fund UK) on the implications for sustainability of health sector policy and practice of the World Bank, USAID, DANIDA, NORAD, SIDA, SCF. Research contributed to a book, Sustaining Primary Health Care, LaFond, published by Earthscan 1995.
• Livelihood Strategies among the Poor in Bequia Island, St Vincent. 13 months doctoral anthropology fieldwork (ESRC funded,1979-82) on social and economic coping strategies among the poor. Research methods included participant observation, formal and informal interviewing, household survey, and secondary source data collection. Published as a monograph by MacMillan 1988.

MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS & COMMITTEES

• Member of the Development Studies Association of the UK
• Member of the Association of Social Anthropologists of Great Britain and the Commonwealth.
• Member of the Commissioning Panel of the Research Programme on International Poverty Reduction funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council and the Department for International Development. 2007
• Member of the Independent Review Panel of the Global Fund for AIDS TB and Malaria. 2006
• Fellow of the National Centre for Public Policy (University of Wales Swansea), 2001 to present.
• Founder Member of the Advisory Board of the Fertility and Reproduction Study Group, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford. 2000 to present
• Chair of Technical Advisory Panel, DFID Resource Centre in Population and Reproductive Health. 1996-1999.
• Member of DFID Health and Population Advisory Committee on Overseas Research and Development (HP-ACORD). 1995-1999 (Observer Status)
• Member HIV/AIDS Policy Advisory Group of the ODA Resource Centre in HIV/AIDS and Sexual health (UK NHS Overseas Enterprises). 1993-95.
• Member of the ODA Advisory Group on Anthropological Aspects of AIDS. 1987 90.