Anita Schrader, Visiting Fellow at LSE gave a lunchtime seminar on her current research.  She looked at how the urban environment affects a childs mental health.

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Anita Schrader was raised in Peru and educated at Oxford University, where she took a B.A. in History and an M.A. in Ethnography. She worked as a museum anthropologist, director of an urban regeneration programme and volunteer in refugee camps before becoming director of the UK Consortium for Street Children.  Anita has completed a PhD at the Institute of Latin American Studies, Liverpool University, entitled “Circles of Trust: parent education and the reversion of child maltreatment in post-war Guatemala”. She has co-authored and edited several publications on human rights law and street children, child labour, HIV and girls, including as co-author of Urban Girls: Empowerment in especially difficult circumstances (with Barker, G; Knaul, F. and N. Cassaniga) 2000. London, Intermediate Technology Publications. Anita presently holds an ESRC post-doctoral fellowship in the Department of Geography at The London School of Economics.