Seamus Murphy is Post-doctoral Research Fellow for WorldFish. Seamus received his PhD in Social Anthropology from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. He also holds an MPhil degree in Research Methods, and MA degree in Social Anthropology of Development and BA degrees in Sociology and Information Studies. He leads gender research within WorldFish Egypt's Value Chains and Nutrition Program, where bilateral and FISH CRP funded work focuses on women's economic empowerment, pro-poor enterprise development, fish consumption, and sex-disaggregated farmed fish trait preferences. As part of the CGIAR Gender and Breeding Initiative, his is also responsible for farmed fish trait preference and demand modelling in Zambia. He currently leads the EC-funded 'Empowering Women Fish Retailers in Egypt' (EWFIRE) project. He has also published a number of peer-reviewed and grey literature prior to his joining WorldFish, where he worked as Post-doc at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex.