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Ligaya Batten BA MSc

Ligaya Batten
Research Degree Student
Room 209, 51 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3DP, UK
Tel: +44 (0)20 7299 4669

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Affiliated to: PSD.

Supervisor: Angela Baschieri

Disciplines: Demography, Economics, Statistics.

Research areas: Demography, Health inequalities.

Other keywords: Migration, Poverty.

Background

Having taken a year off after studying Human Sciences at Oxford, I wanted to pursue my interests in Demography, so came to LSHTM in 2006 to take the MSc Demography and Health.

My research title is: "Gender Differences In Migration Patterns, Employment Opportunities And Trends In Fertility Behaviour Of Migrants Into The Urban Slums Of Nairobi." Funded by the ESRC, I am now in the third year of my PhD.

Teaching

I currently teach on the MSc STEPH and Demography courses.

Research

My PhD will look at the inter-relationships between fertility, health, poverty and migration in the urban slums of Nairobi, Kenya.