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PEOPLE


CURRENT STAFF MEMBERS

Phil Burnham
Dena Freeman
Caroline Garaway
Katherine Homewood
Cressida Jervis-Read
Jerome Lewis
Ruth Malleson
Sara Randall
Barrie Sharpe



CURRENT PhD STUDENT MEMBERS

Claudia Amphlett
Email: claudia.amphlett.10@ucl.ac.uk

Sarah Brooke
Email: sarah.brooke.10@ucl.ac.uk

Claire Bedelian
Email: c.bedelian@ucl.ac.uk

Farid Belbachir
Email: f.belbachir@ucl.ac.uk

Christine Carter
Email: christine.carter@ucl.ac.uk

Helen Cross
Email: helen.cross@ucl.ac.uk

Sophie L Haines
Link to individual webpage: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/people/graduate_students/s_haines
Email: s.haines@ucl.ac.uk

Olivier Hymas
Email: ohymas@onetel.com

David Jobanputra
Link to individual webpage: http://www.ulc.ac.uk/anthropology/people/graduate_students/d_jobanputra
Email: d.jobanputra@ucl.ac.uk

Hilda Kiwasila
Email: hildak@ira.udsm.ac.tz

Sarah Laird
Email: s.laird@aol.com

Alice Miller
Email : ammmiller@gmail.com

Marie-Annick Moreau
Email: marie-annick.moreau@ucl.ac.uk

Bjorn Schulte-Herbruggen
Email: bsh103@gmail.com

Adaoma Wosu
Email: adaoma_wosu@yahoo.com



CURRENT POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOWS

Alec Fanghanel
Email: a.fanghanel@ucl.ac.uk

Aidan Keane
Email: a.m.keane@bangor.ac.uk



EXTERNAL MEMBERS


  • STAFF ALUMNI


Daniel Brockington
Email: Daniel.Brockington@manchester.ac.uk

Kate Hampshire
Email: k.r.hampshire@durham.ac.uk

Sian Sullivan
Email: s.sullivan@bbk.ac.uk

Michael Thompson
Email: dmichaelthompson@hotmail.co.uk



  • PhD ALUMNI


Jo Abbot
Email: jo.abbot@yahoo.co.uk
PhD Thesis: Rural subsistence and protected areas: community use of the miombo woodlands of Lake Malawi National Park
Date of Award: 1996
Key Areas of Interest: Social development, development in fragile states.
Current research/work: Deputy Head of DFID's Civil Society Department - DFID's central department for policy, funding and relationships with civil society organisations.
Brief CV:
• Jan 2010 - present, Deputy Head Civil Society Department, DFID (based in Scotland)June 2008 - December 2009, Senior Social Development Adviser/Results Team Leader, DFID DRC (Kinshasa)
• May 2006 - May 2008 Social Development Adviser, DFID DRC (Kinshasa)
• February 2002 - April 2006 Programme Director CARE South Africa-Lesotho (Johannesburg)
• December 1999 - February 2002 Social Development Adviser/Team Leader
• CARE Uganda (Kasese)
• March 2006 - August 2009 Research Associate International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED, London)
• October 2002 - March 2006 PhD UCL (field work in Malawi)
Link to CV

Ernestina Coast
Link to individual webpage: http://personal.lse.ac.uk/coast/
Email: E.Coast@lse.ac.uk
PhD thesis: Maasai Demography
Date of Award: 2001

Rebecca Drury
Email: rebecca.drury@fauna-flora.org
PhD title: Identifying and understanding consumers of wild animal products in Hanoi, Vietnam: implications for conservation management.
Date of Award: 2009

Chloe Hodgkinson
Email: chodgkinson@fauna-flora.org
PhD title: Tourists, gorillas and guns: integrating conservation and development in the Central African Republic.
Date of Award: 2009
Current research/work: Works with Fauna & Flora International as the Programme Manager for Liberia, since 1997 and is currently helping them to implement five projects. This includes working at the national level, strengthening forest management, and at the local. Working with local communities around Sapo National Park to develop the first community-run forests in the region.

Tatyana Intigrinova
Email: tintigrinova@gmail.com
PhD title Land, people and post-socialist policies in southern Siberia.
Date of Award: 2009
Link to CV

Maurus Msuha
Email: mmsuha@yahoo.co.uk
PhD title Human impacts on carnivore biodiversity inside and outside protected areas in Tanzania
Date of Award: 2009

Chris Sandbrook
Link to individual webpage: http://www.geog.cam.ac.uk/people/sandbrook/
Email: cgs21@cam.ac.uk
PhD title: Great Ape Ecotourism
Date of Award: 2006

Gretchen Walters
Email: ucsagwa@ucl.ac.uk
PhD title: The Land Chief’s embers: ethnobotany of Batéké fire regimes, savanna vegetation and resource use in Gabon
Date of Award: 2010

Andrew Williams
Email: andrew.mazingira@gmail.com
PhD title: Common pool resource management round Ruaha
Date of Award: 2005


  • ANTHROPOLOGY ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT ALUMNI


Ambika Aiyadurai
Email: aiyadurai@googlemail.com
MSc Thesis Title: Wildlife hunting in Miju Mishmi, an Indigenous group in Arunachal Pradesh, Northeast India: a socio-economic and cultural study.
Date of Award: 2009
Key Areas of Interest: Biodiversity conservation, Protected Areas,Conservation Politics, Indigenous communities, Wildlife hunting practices,Community-based conservation
Current research/work: Wildlife Hunting and Conservation in a Himalayan Borderland of the Mishmi hills, Northeast India
Brief CV:
• 2010, Independent Consultant, IUCN-NL and Wildlife Trust of India.
• 2006, Research Affiliate, Nature Conservation Foundation, India
• 2003, Project Officer, Wildlife Trust of India
• 2002, Project Officer, Centre for Environment Education

Ellen Brown
Email: ellenincongo@gmail.com
Msc Thesis Title: Participatory Forest Management and REDD: A Local Level Perspective from Village Lands in Angai Forest, Tanzania
Date of Award: 2010

Melania Calestani
Email: mellycalle@hotmail.com
Msc Thesis Title: Women's Involvement in agriculture in two Samoan villages
Date of Award: 2000

T. Paul Cox
Email: tpaulcox@gmail.com
Link to individual webpage : www.tpaulcox.com
Msc Thesis Title: The land as a casualty: Soil, cattle, and the future in South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo.
Date of Award: 2008
Key Areas of Interest: Agricultural development, conflict, smallholder farming, soil and pest management, food systems, international migration.
Current Research/Work: Consulting on research projects and publications with organizations including the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, International Center for Tropical Agriculture, and CGIAR Systemwide Program on Integrated Pest Management. Reporting on current research and development for New Agriculturist magazine and the Department for International Development.
Brief CV:
• 2009-2010, Freelance writer, researcher and editor, USA
• 2009-2010, Contributing writer, New Agriculturist, UK
• 2008 MSc Anthropology and Ecology of Development, UCL, UK

Esme Gaussen
Email: esmegaussen@gmail.com
MSc Thesis Title: Water Access, Management and Policy: Case Study of Imalilo Songwe Village Tanzania
Date of Award: 2003

Brigid Hains
Email: brigid.hains@googlemail.com
MSc Thesis Title: Indigenous environmental politics in Sweden: Sami reindeer herding families negotiating social and ecological change.
Date of Award: 2008
Link to CV

Olivier Hymas
Email: ohymas@onetel.com
Msc Thesis Title: Forest product extraction and impacts in the Uluguru Mountains Tanzania
Date of Award: 2000

Ivan Scales
Link to individual webpage: http://www.geog.cam.ac.uk/people/scales/
Email: irs28@cam.ac.uk
MSc thesis title: "The moabi tree (Baillonella toxisperma) - Use and use conflicts in the Mokoko River Forest Reserve, Cameroon."
Date of Award: 2001

Carolina Schneider Comandulli
Email: carbrasil@gmail.com
MSc Thesis Title: Protectionists and the Guaraní: the village that did not exist socio-environmental conflict in southern Brazil
Date of Award: 2009

Chloe Sutcliffe
Link to individual webpage: http://www.see.leeds.ac.uk/people/c.sutcliffe
Email: chloesutcliffe@hotmail.com
MSc Thesis Title: Sustaining allotment sites-Community management of an 'urban commons' in a context of change
Date of Award: 2004

Chris Timura
Link to individual webpage: http://www.akingump.com/ctimura/
Email: ctimura@gmail.com
MSc Thesis Title: Comparative Analysis of "Environmental Conflicts" in Three Settings: Guinea Fowl War, Northern Region, Ghana, Zapatista, Rebillion Chiapas, Mexico, and Eldorado do Carajas, Para, Brazil

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