Hessa Khalifa Al Khalifa
Job Title
PhD student, Social Policy
Research interests
Research interests
- New Towns,
- Post-colonial Gulf States
- State Formation and Identity
- Nation-building
- State Citizen interactions
- Social and Political dimensions of spatial development
- Social Housing
Background
Hessa works as the Director of Housing Policies and Strategic Planning at the Ministry of Housing in the Kingdom of Bahrain. With over twenty years in public service and an academic foundation in Public Policy and Law, Hessa’s main research focus lie in studying New Towns and the social and political dimensions of spatial development in the Arabian Gulf States, especially Bahrain. She is interested in studying the temporal elements of state development, initiatives and involvement in policy design and implementation. She looks at Colonial/Post-Colonial state development and image in relation to state, non-state and citizen bodies.
She is interested in the use of Archival and Multimodal data in her qualitative research.