In this seminar Margaret O’Callaghan will discuss her research on documenting the socio-economic impact of Zambia’s North Western(NW) Province mining boom during its first decade. She identifies a number of issues, one being the nature of research which has and is currently been undertaken by international and national academics, postgraduate students, NGOs and INGOs, international agencies, and in a slightly different category, national and international consultants for mining companies.