Prof Katherine Homewood
Contacts
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- k.homewood@ucl.ac.uk
Appointments
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Professor of Human Ecology
Dept of Anthropology
Faculty of S&HS
Joined UCL
1980-04-14
Research Themes
My research combines social and natural sciences approaches to interactions of environmental policies and rural development, particularly impacts of conservation policies on local peoples’ land use, livelihoods and wellbeing, developing mixed methods study of differentiated change in rural livelihoods. I focus on East African rangelands, but supervise PhDs working throughout the global South. The Human Ecology Research Group I have convened since 1990 draws together social and natural sciences academic staff, postdocs, PhDs and MScs. I have 30 years’ experience of leading and co-leading large-scale, international interdisciplinary collaborations, funded by DFID, EU, RCUK. My early training in natural science, and subsequent experience and skills in social science, have been important in integrating across disciplines and perspectives. I am strongly committed to delivering research that contributes positively to shaping policy and practice, through building relations with policymakers, civil society and communities. I act to ensure that project research design, data collection, and findings are discussed in depth with local users, tested against lived experience, and made available in ways appropriate for different levels. I use evidence to inform development agencies, civil society professionals and resource managers, leading to positive change in natural resource governance in ways that support poor communities’ wellbeing alongside environmental sustainability. I aim to co-produce findings for local people to negotiate more effectively with state and entrepreneurs, eventually scaling up to influence state policies, investment and community-led management of natural resources, with local cases’ adoption of research-led policy ultimately leading to wider societal change.
Award year | Qualification | Institution | |
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1976 | PhD |
Doctor of Philosophy
Anthropology
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University College London |
1971 | BA |
Bachelor of Arts
Zoology
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University of Oxford |
- African Biodiversity Conservation in Dryland Ecosystems
- Biodiversity Ecosystem services, Soial sustainability and Tipping points
- Changing Maasai land use and livelihoods
- Conservation with development in Mkomazi, Tanzania
- Environmental, demographic and socioeconomic outcomes of savanna land use policy (EU)
- Impacts of veterinary intervention on pastoralist management of livestock disease
- In-migrants and exclusion in East African rangelands
- Land use, household viability and migration in the Sahel
- Patterns of land use and development in Maasailand
- Policy, cultivation and conservation in East African Rangeland Buffer Zones (DFID)
- Savanna land use policy outcomes / Socioeconomic factors driving conversion of rangeland to cultivation