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J.S. (Jasmine) Turner

PhD Candidate
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Programme group: Anthropology of Health, Care and the Body

Visiting address
  • Nieuwe Achtergracht 166
Postal address
  • Postbus 15509
    1001 NA Amsterdam
  • Profile

    Jasmine Turner (she/her) is an applied researcher in War Child Holland’s Research and Development department with a focus on the development and evaluation of education programmes in fragile and conflict-affected settings. She is an external PhD candidate at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research, under the supervision of Prof. Mark Jordans and Dr. Nikhit D’Sa, and a PhD fellow at the Amsterdam Institute of Global Health and Development. Jasmine completed her MSc in Global Mental Health at King’s College London and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

    Prior to joining War Child, Jasmine worked as an educator in low-resource settings in Malawi, France and the UK, specialising in working with children with special educational needs and disabilities. Jasmine’s PhD incorporates public health and intervention research methods with her passion for education, culminating in the design and evaluation of an approach to improve children’s school attendance and retention in conflict-affected settings through increasing the engagement of caregivers in their children’s education and strengthening the home-school relationship in refugee settlements in Uganda.

    Expertise and research fields

    • Education programme development and evaluation in conflict-affected and fragile settings
    • Participatory action research for programme development
    • Adaptation and scale-up of EdTech in low-resource settings 
       
  • Research

    Research methods

    • Implementation research
    • Randomised controlled trials
    • Participatory action research
    • System dynamics and group model building
    • Value for money analysis
    • Policy network analysis
    • Measurement tool development and validation
    • Focus group and key informant interviews
    • Framework analysis 

    Current research projects

    • Developing an approach to improve school attendance and retention in refugee settings through strengthening caregivers’ engagement in children’s education and the home-school relationship
    • Evaluating the effectiveness of an education technology (EdTech) programme in Uganda: a randomized controlled trial
    • Developing tools to enable data-driven quality assurance for an EdTech programme
    • Conducting value for money analyses to inform the adaptation and scale-up of an EdTech programme
    • Identifying opportunities and obstacles for the integration and implementation of EdTech programmes in national education policy

    Research grants & honours

    Grants

    • Bridges to Impact through Innovative EdTech: Forging links between policy, research and practice – International Development Research Centre 
    • Enfolded Education: A wrap-around approach increasing access, retention, and transition for out of school children – LEGO Foundation

    Honours

    • Outstanding Achievement Award, University of Manchester

    Cooperation with 

    • Innovations for Poverty Action
  • Publications

    2023

    • Brown, F. L., Farag, A. I., Hussein Abd Alla, F., Radford, K., Miller, L., Neijenhuijs, K., Stubbé, H., de Hoop, T., Abdullatif Abbadi, A., Turner, J. S., Jetten, A., & Jordans, M. J. D. (2023). Can’t Wait to Learn: A quasi-experimental mixed-methods evaluation of a digital game-based learning programme for out-of-school children in Sudan. Journal of Development Effectiveness, 15(3), 320-341. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/19439342.2020.1829000 [details]
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  • Ancillary activities
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