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PhD, Biological Anthropology
University College, London 1976
Chairperson for Human Sciences
Convenor, Human Ecology Research Group
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Publications |
General interests | Research | Teaching | PhD students | Languages |
GENERAL INTERESTS
I work on the interaction of conservation and development, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa and with a special focus on pastoralist peoples in drylands, among other groups and ecosystems. I research the implications of natural resource policies and management for local people's livelihoods and welfare, and the implications of changing land use for environment and biodiversity. I convene the Human Ecology Research Group which brings together staff and postgraduates working on environment and development issues.
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RESEARCH
2008-present Evaluating interventions and influencing policy in East African drylands
In collaboration with colleagues from other UK, international and African research institutions I am working on several programmes aiming to shape more environmentally and socially sustainable policy and practice in African drylands. These include PI for the ESPA programme framework grant Biodiversity, Ecosystem services, Social sustainability and Tipping points, (with ZSL, ILRI, ATPS) http://www.ucl.ac.uk/best; co-PI for the NERC-DEFRA funded Valuing Nature Network programme Capturing differentiated experience of change to ensure pro-poor ecosystem service: interventions are fit for purpose ( With Imperial, ZSL, LSE) and co-I in the USAID/ASARECA- funded African Biodiversity Conservation in Dryland Ecosystems (with Egerton University, IUCN, ILRI)
2003-2007 Changing Maasai land use and livelihoods:
In collaboration with other researchers based at the International Livestock Research Institute, Nairobi, I am undertaking a synthesis of the socioeconomic component of a multi site comparative study of changing land use and the implications for wildlife conservation and development: Kitengela, Amboseli , Mara, Longido, Tarangire, Laikipia.
2002-2003 Impacts of veterinary intervention on pastoralist management of livestock disease:
In this collaborative DFID funded research project I worked with Tanzanian, Belgian and UK researchers, using anthropological and demographic methods to study the outcomes for livestock performance , household economy and poverty reduction of Infect-and- Treat methods of tackling East Coast Fever , the major killing disease in Maasai pastoralist livestock.
2001-2002 In-migrants and exclusion in East African rangelands:
In this DFID-funded collaborative investigation several members of the UCL Human Ecology Group worked together using their in depth knowledge of and networks in East African Maasailand to describe and quantify differences in access to land , economic opportunities and education among different ethnic groups and people with different histories of migration and residence.
1996-2000 Savanna land use policy outcomes / Socioeconomic factors driving conversion of rangeland to cultivation:
These linked DFID and EU-funded research collaborations used the Serengeti National Park/ Mara Reserve and surrounding buffer zones as a natural experiment where some 100, 000 km2 of ecologically and ethnically continuous rangelands have been carved into blocks where different conservation and/or development policies have applied over decades. The area is also cut in two by the Kenya /Tanzania border, so each policy category is duplicated under different political and economic conditions on the two sides of the border. We are using remotely sensed data on habitat change; long term repeated aerial census datasets on wildlife and livestock numbers and distribution, and national demographic censuses to look at broad outcomes for environment, biodiversity, socioeconomic and demographic indicators, of three decades of different policies. A second stage identified hotspots of rapid change and study them more intensively on a finer scale.
TEACHING
My teaching experience in Human Sciences and Anthropology,together with my research, have made me particularly interested inintegrating social and physical aspects of these topics. I enjoy both lecturing and tutorial teaching and my first and second year options each consistently attract large numbers of students from Anthropology, as well as Human Sciences, Zoology, Geography and other Life Sciences departments. I have been carrying out course review procedures for the last ten years (before these were formally instituted by the University) and my courses are well received by the students as well as the External examiners. I have developed a number of new courses at UCL, including for example the Human Sciences Seminar course,the advanced pastoralist ecology course (see below), an MSc in Anthropology and Ecology of Development, and undergraduate and postgraduate courses in methods in Biological Anthropology.
POSTGRADUATE PhD THESES SUPERVISED
| As First Supervisor: | |||
| Name | Date of Entry | Thesis Title | Date of Completion |
| B Schulte-Herbrüggen | 2006 | Wildlife management and livelihoods in a West African forest-farmland landscape. | |
| M A Moreau | 2006 | ||
| A Dickman | 2005 | ||
| M Msuha | 2005 | ||
| J Tulsi | 2005 | ||
| G Walters | 2005 | ||
| T Intigrinova | 2005 | Siberian pastoralism under changing natural resource management | |
| C Hodgkinson | 2004 | Lowland gorilla ecotourism | |
| E Payan | 2004 | ||
| C Sandbrook | 2002 | Great Ape Ecotourism | 2007 |
| A Ainslie | 1998 | Livestock and Xhosa identity in South Africa | 2005 |
| T Maddox | 1998 | Ecology of large carnivores and pastoralists, Serengeti | 2002 |
| A Williams | 1998 | Common pool resource management round Ruaha | 2005 |
| M Thompson | 1997 | Policy, cultivation and conservation in Kenya Maasailand | 2002 |
| J Kivelia | 1997 | Socioeconomic factors driving rangeland conversion in Tanzania Maasailand | 2005 |
| As 2nd Supervisor: | |||
| E Bishop | 2003 | Impact of education on pastoralism | 2007 |
| P Wargute | 1998 | Land use and ecological change, Samburu-Buffalo Springs | |
| H Osbahr | 1997 | Soil fertility management and farmer knowledge in Fandou Beri, Niger | 2002 |
LANGUAGES
French Fluent speech and writing
German competent speech and writing
Swahili competent speech and writing
Arabic basic speech
