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Kate Roll

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Valuable Conversations with UCL IIPP

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Martin Fisher

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Welcome to Valuable Conversations with the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose. In our first episode, MPA students Elisa Cadelli and Justin Beirold talk to Professor Kate Roll. Kate is the instructor for the MPA module “Grand Challenges and Systems Change”. We talk about her adventures conducting PhD field research on a motorcycle in Timor-Leste, how she got interested in the politics of innovation, and some of her recent work on the gig economy. Guest Bio: Dr Kate Roll is a political scientist who currently serves as an Assistant Professor in Innovation, Development and Purpose and Head of Teaching at UCL IIPP, and the Bartlett's Faculty Lead for Public Policy. Prior to joining IIPP, she was based at the University of Oxford, where she is a faculty member at the Saïd Business School, contributing to the strategy and innovation curriculum, and ran the Mutuality in Business Project, a large multi-year research partnership on responsible business. Her multi-disciplinary work brings together politics and policy, business ethics, and development studies. One stream of research focuses on power and vulnerability with a particular interest on how people in poverty and following conflict gain greater social and economic security. Within this stream, she wrote her doctoral thesis on the politics of benefits programmes for former combatants in Timor-Leste. Dr Roll’s second research focus critically engages with private sector approaches to development, particularly ‘base of the pyramid’ route-to-market programmes. As part of this work, she co-leads a randomised control trial investigating the impact of greater risk-sharing in micro-finance contracts in Kenya. She is currently developing a new stream of research, which will extend her work on private sector approaches to development by critically examining the emergent field of social innovation and 'technology for good.’ We hope you enjoy this conversation! - Read Kate’s recent article: “Gig work at the base of the pyramid: considering dependence and control”: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/public-purpose/publications/2020/jul/gig-work-base-pyramid-considering-dependence-and-control Our student hosts: Elisa Cadelli and Justin Beirold  Follow IIPP on Twitter: @IIPP_UCL https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/public-purpose/ Production and music by Justin Beirold

Welcome to Valuable Conversations with the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose. In our first episode, MPA students Elisa Cadelli and Justin Beirold talk to Professor Kate Roll. Kate is the instructor for the MPA module “Grand Challenges and Systems Change”. We talk about her adventures conducting PhD field research on a motorcycle in Timor-Leste, how she got interested in the politics of innovation, and some of her recent work on the gig economy. Guest Bio: Dr Kate Roll is a political scientist who currently serves as an Assistant Professor in Innovation, Development and Purpose and Head of Teaching at UCL IIPP, and the Bartlett's Faculty Lead for Public Policy. Prior to joining IIPP, she was based at the University of Oxford, where she is a faculty member at the Saïd Business School, contributing to the strategy and innovation curriculum, and ran the Mutuality in Business Project, a large multi-year research partnership on responsible business. Her multi-disciplinary work brings together politics and policy, business ethics, and development studies. One stream of research focuses on power and vulnerability with a particular interest on how people in poverty and following conflict gain greater social and economic security. Within this stream, she wrote her doctoral thesis on the politics of benefits programmes for former combatants in Timor-Leste. Dr Roll’s second research focus critically engages with private sector approaches to development, particularly ‘base of the pyramid’ route-to-market programmes. As part of this work, she co-leads a randomised control trial investigating the impact of greater risk-sharing in micro-finance contracts in Kenya. She is currently developing a new stream of research, which will extend her work on private sector approaches to development by critically examining the emergent field of social innovation and 'technology for good.’ We hope you enjoy this conversation! - Read Kate’s recent article: “Gig work at the base of the pyramid: considering dependence and control”: <a href="https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/public-purpose/publications/2020/jul/gig-work-base-pyramid-considering-dependence-and-control" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/public-purpose/publications/2020/jul/gig-work-base-pyramid-considering-dependence-and-control</a> Our student hosts: Elisa Cadelli and Justin Beirold Follow IIPP on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/IIPP_UCL" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@IIPP_UCL</a> <a href="https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/public-purpose/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/public-purpose/</a> Production and music by Justin Beirold

Today's interview features Dr. Kate Roll an Assistant Professor and Head of Teaching at UCL’s Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP). Kate is a political scientist interested in how business, technology, and the state interact to improve the lives of the most vulnerable. Bringing her background in international development, Kate discusses inclusive business and the concept of bottom of the pyramid development and it's consequences for corporations and impoverished populations. Kate also shares her insights on what makes NGO and corporate partnerships succeed- and perhaps more interestingly, what makes them fail. Kate holds a BA in International Relations (honors, Phi Beta Kappa) from Brown University, and both an MPhil in International Development Studies (distinction) and DPhil in Politics from the University of Oxford. She has taught both undergraduate Empirical Politics and Management Studies at the University of Oxford, and she continues to teach both at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, and on IIPP's flagship MPA in Innovation at University College London.Her multi-disciplinary work brings a focus politics and power to questions such as 'who gets what after war?' and 'how should corporations work with those in poverty?' Committed to grounded research, she has conducted fieldwork in Timor-Leste, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Kenya. She currently leads research at IIPP focusing on the sustainable development goals (SDGs), with a particular interest in issues of financing and conflict (SDG16).

Today's interview features Dr. Kate Roll an Assistant Professor and Head of Teaching at UCL’s Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP). Kate is a political scientist interested in how business, technology, and the state interact to improve the lives of the most vulnerable. Bringing her background in international development, Kate discusses inclusive business and the concept of bottom of the pyramid development and it's consequences for corporations and impoverished populations. Kate also shares her insights on what makes NGO and corporate partnerships succeed- and perhaps more interestingly, what makes them fail. Kate holds a BA in International Relations (honors, Phi Beta Kappa) from Brown University, and both an MPhil in International Development Studies (distinction) and DPhil in Politics from the University of Oxford. She has taught both undergraduate Empirical Politics and Management Studies at the University of Oxford, and she continues to teach both at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, and on IIPP's flagship MPA in Innovation at University College London.Her multi-disciplinary work brings a focus politics and power to questions such as 'who gets what after war?' and 'how should corporations work with those in poverty?' Committed to grounded research, she has conducted fieldwork in Timor-Leste, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Kenya. She currently leads research at IIPP focusing on the sustainable development goals (SDGs), with a particular interest in issues of financing and conflict (SDG16).

Episode 106: Kate Roll, Head of Teaching and Assistant Professor at Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose