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) […]
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 career as a research assistance at the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) and continued to do a short term project on ‘climate and weather information systems’ for USAID Indonesia APIK , this project helped support the Government of Indonesia in improving climate and disaster resilience at national and local levels. Until present she worked as a lecturer at the Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB).
Ayu joined Durham University in March 2019 to pursue her PhD, which focuses on developing statistical relationship of rainfall-runoff model for flood forecasting in Indonesia.
Department of Earth Sciences
Rainfall runoff modelling for flood forecasting in Indonesia.
Indonesia
Prof. Simon A. Mathias (Department of Earth Sciences, Durham University)
Dr. Sim Reaney (Department of Geography, Durham University)
Prof. Fred Worrel (Department of Earth Sciences, Durham University)
Dr Tri Wahyu Hadi (Department of Meteorology, Institut Teknologi Bandung)
