Head of Research

Rachel joined INTRAC in May 2011. She was previously based in the Centre of African Studies at the University of Edinburgh (2002-2011). Her research focuses on international development aid and development policy-making; aid effectiveness; democratisation and governance in developing and post-conflict countries; and education and health policy. She has worked primarily on sub-Saharan Africa, and the Great Lakes Region and Rwanda in particular. She has acted as an advisor and consultant to several NGOs, including the Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund (SCIAF), Oxfam America and Link Community Development Scotland.

Rachel has a PhD and MSc in African Studies from the University of Edinburgh, and a post-graduate degree in Development Studies from the Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium.

As Head of Research, Rachel is responsible for facilitating the NGO Research Forum and overseeing research activities at INTRAC.

Key publications:

Hayman, R. (2011) ‘Budget support and democracy: a twist in the conditionality tale’, Third World Quarterly, Volume 32, Number 4.

Hayman, R. (2011) ‘Funding Fraud? Donors and Democracy in Rwanda’, in Reconstructing Rwanda: State Building & Human Rights after Mass Violence eds., Scott Straus and Lars Waldorf. University of Wisconsin Press.

Hayman, R. (2009) 'Rwanda: Milking the Cow? Creating Policy Space In Spite of Aid Dependence' in L. Whitfield (ed.) The Politics of Aid. African Strategies for Dealing with Donors. Oxford: Oxford University Press

Hayman, R (2010) ‘Abandoned Orphan, Wayward Child: the United Kingdom and Belgium in post-1994 Rwanda’, Journal of Eastern African Studies, Volume 4, No. 2: 341-360

Hayman, R. (2009) ‘Going in the ‘right’ direction? Democracy promotion in Rwanda since 1990’, Taiwan Journal of Democracy, Volume 5, No.1: 51-75

Hayman, R (2009) ‘From Rome to Accra via Kigali: ‘aid effectiveness’ in Rwanda’, Development Policy Review, 27 (5): 581-599

Hayman, R. (2007) 'Are the MDGs enough? Donor perspectives and recipient visions of education and poverty reduction in Rwanda'. International Journal of Educational Development, Volume 27, Issue 4, Pages: 371-382