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Department Member, School of the Built Environment
University of Chester, Geography & Development Studies
Research Associate
About
Kirsten is currently working at Heriot-Watt University as a Research Associate on an ESRC funded research on Poverty and Social Exclusion in the UK. This study is the largest of its kind ever carried out in the UK. This research is expected to offer new insights into the causes and consequences of poverty, the relationships between different dimensions of deprivation and how deprivation and social exclusion relate to wider social and economic trends.
Kirsten Besemer is also a PhD student at the University of Chester where she is researching the effects of trade liberalisation on South Vietnamese rice farmers. In particular, she is looking at peoples’ knowledge of WTO accession and decisions they are making about crops, children's education, and the future of their farms. She is interested in both how people perceive WTO accession and how it affects them in economic terms.
