Caryn’s research largely focuses on the impacts of corruption on public policy processes and the consequences of anticorruption policies. She is also increasingly interested in the impacts of communicating about tricky public policy areas, like corruption and organised crime, with the public. She has written about patterns of sexual corruption, other types of grass-roots corruption, the functionality of corruption, the measurement of corruption and on the unintended consequences of anticorruption policies. She has conducted research in many countries in several different regions, including Nigeria, Albania, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, South Africa and Uganda. She draws on a wide range of different methodological approaches in her work and has extensive experience in the design of household-level surveys and survey experiments, specifically. She regularly works with Transparency International and other international organisations, as well as several government agencies, to understand the likely impacts of anticorruption efforts on the measurement of corruption.