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Podcast: In Common
Episode: 113: Conducting research on a large scale with Johan Oldekop
Description: In this episode, Divya speaks with Dr. Johan Oldekop. Johan is a senior lecturer at the Global Development Institute at the University of Manchester. He conducts interdisciplinary research and uses large-scale publicly available datasets to understand tradeoffs and synergies between conservation and development outcomes.
In this conversation, they primarily focused on Johan’s work on the impact evaluation of the zero hunger program in Brazil and his parallel research exploring the links between forests and livelihoods in the global south.
For both these projects, Johan conducted large-scale research and worked with big datasets. As we di...