A blog post from Nyaboke Omwega, Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Anthropology and member of the GCRF CDT. My research on gender discrimination (Transport as Gendered Employment Practice in Kenya) has led me to look at Kenyan history. It is impossible to discuss female leadership in Kenya without discussing Wangari Maathai (1940-2011). Internationally, she was […]
On the 4th January 2021 an event dubbed as a “Research Dissemination Exhibition”, was launched at the Makerere University Art gallery. Read our interview with the artist and PhD candidate: Could you tell us a bit about yourself? I am an applied sculptor and Lecturer at the College of Engineering, Art, Design and Technology (CEDAT) […]
Biography Masters (Biotechnology) from Jammu university, India Department Department of Biosciences PhD Project The development and characterization of green ionic liquid solvents for algal biofuel extraction. Country India Supervisory Team Dr John Bothwell (Department of Biosciences) Dr David Hodgson (Department of Chemistry) Dr Bijemder Kumar (University of Jammu)
Biography Majo is an Ecuadorian architect that has worked with biologists for most of her professional career. She completed her architecture studies in Quito, Ecuador. During the last years of her bachelors, she started working in a project in Loja province, southern Ecuador. The project works with three communities and aims to control, prevent and … Continue reading
Biography Raymond Christianto comes from Indonesia. He lived in Surakarta, then moved to Yogyakarta in 2014 to do a Bachelor in Engineering Physics at Universitas Gadjah Mada. He has a keen interest in Computer and Physics since Junior High School. This reflected on his final year project which is designing a computer model for an … Continue reading
Biography Raquel hails from the beautiful, Central American country of Belize. She completed her undergraduate degree in Natural Resource Management at the University of Belize followed by a Master’s Degree in Wildlife Health and Population Management at the University of Sydney, Australia. She has worked as a Development Manager at the Ya’axché Conservation Trust in … Continue reading
Biography Bruno Gabriel Costelini, BSc in Oceanography ’18 (UFPR, Brazil) is pursuing his PhD at Durham Law School. His academic interests center on History of International Law, International Environmental Law and Law of the Sea. He’s also an amateur photographer and bibliophile, snapping pictures of libraries as he travels around the world. Department Durham Law School PhD Project The Tragedy of … Continue reading
Biography Victor was born and raised in the State of Sao Paulo, Brazil, where he completed his BSc in Biomedical Sciences at the University of Sao Paulo (USP). In the last years of his undergraduate studies, Victor worked at the Department of Parasitology (USP) with Leishmania spp, the aethiological agent of an important neglected disease … Continue reading
Biography Burag is a GCRF-funded PhD candidate at Durham University’s Geography Department. Prior to joining Durham University, he received a BA in Economics (2015) from Bogazici University in Turkey, and after that, he completed an MSc in International Development and Management (2018) at Lund University in Sweden. Department Department of Geography PhD Project Governing the … Continue reading
Biography Tariro Gwandu is a Zimbabwean PhD candidate in the Department of Engineering at Durham University. Her study focuses on the role of using soil improvement technologies (SITs) to enhance drought and nutrient resilience in Zimbabwean soils. In future, Ms. Gwandu intends to become an expert in soil fertility and water management. Department Departmenty of Engineering … Continue reading
Biography Daud has a Master’s degree in Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) from German-Kazakh University, Kazakhstan and a BSc in Civil Engineering from Jami University, Afghanistan. Daud joined Durham University in June 2019, prior to PhD he worked with the Regional Environmental Centre for Central Asia (CAREC) in the Smart Waters Project (in Kabul) funded … Continue reading
Biography Completed my undergraduate’s in Physics ( hons) from Delhi University, India followed by master’s in Physics with specialization in Experimental condensed matter physics from Banasthali University, India. Now, pursuing PhD in Physics from Department of Physics, Durham University, United Kingdom. Department Department of Physics PhD Project Title: A whole lifecycle approach to solar … Continue reading
Biography Martin Sheku Kandeh comes from Sierra Leone, he has an MSc. and a Bsc. degree in sociology from Njala University Sierra Leone. Martin is presently is a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology at Durham University under the Global Challenge Research Fund-Centre for Doctoral Training (GCRF-CDT) in the Field of study: … Continue reading
Biography Hamza Lakhal is a poet and activist from Western Sahara. His first poetry collection was published by L’Harmattan in 2013. He led the first campaign for university to be built in Western Sahara (there is no university until now) and he was expelled from school for 12 years (2002-2014) because of that. He established … Continue reading
Biography Graduated with Masters in Chemistry. Aspires to be a chemist with social values. Department Department of Chemistry PhD Project Development of copper-dependent antimicrobial resistance breakers Country India Supervisory Team Dr James Walton (Department of Chemistry) Dr Karrera Djoko (Department of Biosciences) Prof SandeepVerma (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur) Dr Sidarth Chopra (CSIR-Central Drug Research … Continue reading
Biography I was raised in the hinterland town of Bartica, Guyana on the banks of the Essequibo River. At age eleven I began high school in the capital Georgetown, later graduating from the University of Guyana with a B.Eng Civil. However, growing up surrounded by the beauty of the Essequibo River and watching the rain … Continue reading
Biography Phellecitus Thuli Montana is a PhD Candidate in the School of Government and International Affairs (SGIA) at Durham University. Her PhD is centered on the politics and ethics of water security in Cape Town, South Africa, following the 2015 drought and experienced water crisis. Thuli was awarded the Chevening Scholarship in 2015 to pursue … Continue reading
Biography Completed Master’s in Biotechnology from Jamia Millia Islamia (2018), New Delhi, INDIA Department Department of Biosciences PhD Project Mitigating Flood Risks in Rice production in the Indian Subcontinent. Country India Supervisory Team Prof Ari Sadanandom (Department of Biosciences) Dr Tom Widger (Department of Anthropology) Dr Elaiane Fitches (Department of Biosciences) Prof Alok Sinha (National … Continue reading
Biography Prior to joining Durham University in 2019, Nyaboke worked in International Development in Sub-saharan Africa in the areas of HIV, Maternal and Child Health as well as Gender mainstreaming since 2011. She has a strong focus on Behavior Change program development and implementation. Nyaboke holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Millsaps College, … Continue reading
Biography Laksmi Rachmawati started her studies on risk perception in 2012 where she conducted research on volcanic activity (2012), earthquakes/tsunamis (2013) and floods (2014) in Indonesia. In 2015-2017 she was involved as a researcher in HIVE (Health Intervention in Volcanic Eruption), to investigate people’s perception of risk due to volcanic ash exposure and the use … Continue reading
Biography Rahmawati Rahayu, usually known as Ayu, has been working on hydrometeorological issues in her past professions. She received her bachelor degree from the Meteorology Department in 2010 at ITB and she then proceeded to obtain her master’s degree at Groundwater Engineering in 2011 from the same university and graduated in 2013. Ayu started her … Continue reading
Biography BSc (special) degree in Microbiology (University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka) with two years of experience as a teaching assistant in Microbiology and Parasitology Departments. Worked as a research assistant on a current project named, Screening of the gut flora of the leishmaniasis vector Phlebotomus argentipes (Psychodidae: Phlebotominae) in Sri Lanka: an approach to assess … Continue reading
Biography I worked as a research assistant and did my Master’s in Computer Science from Information Technology University, Pakistan. My research there was based on designing Deep Learning based models to analyze built-structures in satellite imagery. My MS thesis being “Single image destruction detection in satellite imagery” increased my curiosity with what happens below earth’s … Continue reading
Biography Ramesh comes from the beautiful Himalayan country of Nepal. His passion to work in Disaster Risk Management (DRM) began soon after completing his Master’s Degree in Environmental Sciences from Tribhuvan University, Nepal in 2012, when he took up a position at the NGO Mercy Corps. Since then, he has worked with various organizations focussing … Continue reading
Biography Sufia Singlee is a doctoral candidate at the University of Durham. She is a recipient of a PhD studentship from the University’s newly established Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT). Sufia received both her LLB and LLM (in Labour Law) from the University of Cape Town in South Africa and her … Continue reading
Biography Department Departmenty of Geography PhD Project Art and creativity in HIV/AIDS Prevention and Empowerment Among Young Country Uganda Supervisory Team Prof Cheryl McEwan (Department of Geography) Dr Hannah Brown (Department of Anthropology) Dr Lilian Nabulime (Makerere University) Major Rubaramira Ruranga (NGEN+)
Biography Kai Weise is a Nepali national of Swiss origin holding a studentship at Durham’s Global Challenge Research Fund Centre for Doctoral Training (GCRF CDT). He completed his Masters in Architecture from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich in 1992 and has been working as a planner and architect in the Himalayan Region. As … Continue reading
