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PEOPLE
CURRENT STAFF MEMBERS
Phil Burnham
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
Jessica Frisswell
Email:
jessicafriswell@yahoo.com
MSc
Thesis Title: Indigenous mapping in Cameroon:
negotiating resources access with forest peoples.
Current
research/work activities: Intern with the Indigenous
Education Foundation of Tanzania in Boston, MA, USA, doing a consultancy for the Locally-Managed
Marine Area Network that operates in the Pacific Islands.
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
Renate Heileman
Email: renate.heileman@gmail.com
MSc
Thesis Title: "A turtle live is worth more
than a turtle dead": a case study of the socio-economic impacts of
community based conservation and ecotourism in Matura, Trinidad and Tobago
Date
of Award: September 2012
Key
areas of interest: Natural resources management, sustainable
development
Current research/work
activities: Ameliorating refugee/IDP protection through environmental and
natural resources management, assessing environmental impacts of refugee/IDP
camps
Brief
CV:
• May 2012 - present, Intern, UNHCR,
Switzerland
• July - September 2010, Intern,
UNESCO, France
• September 2011, MSc Anthropology,
Environment and Development, UCL, United Kingdom
Olivier Hymas
Email: ohymas@onetel.com
Msc Thesis Title: Forest product extraction and impacts in the Uluguru Mountains Tanzania
Date of Award: 2000
Melissa Kapitan
Email: y.kapitan@gmail.com
MSc Thesis Title: Beach-hawking
for women: Impacts of gender, employment and tourism dynamics on women beach
hawkers in Sanur, Bali
Key areas of interest: Community development and empowerment, gender, behaviour change
communication
Current research/work activities: Working
for World Bank - PNPM Support Facility (PSF) on Program Nasional
Pemberdayaan Masyarakat/PNPM (National Program for Community Empowerment) in
Indonesia. PNPM
Mandiri is the government's flagship community-driven development program. PNPM
focuses on reducing poverty in all Indonesian provinces through a community
planning process that generates employment and invests in small-scale
infrastructure projects that improve the development of individual villages and
urban wards. Since 1998, the World Bank has supported PNPM and its predecessor
programs through a combination of loans and technical assistance.
Brief CV:
• October 2011
- now, Communication Associate/PSF-World Bank, Indonesia
• Sept 2010 -
Sept 2011, MSc. Antrhopology, Environment & Development, UCL, United
Kingdom
• May 2010 -
September 2010, Research Consultant, PA-CSR, Indonesia
• Aug 2009 -
May 2010, Consultant, Church World Service (CWS) Asia Pacific,
Thailand
• Jan 2003 -
July 2009, Graduate Certificate in Environment & Planning, RMIT
University, Australia; Consultant for CWS New York and CWS Indonesia
• Feb 2002 -
Oct 2002, Salsa Tatarasa Utama, Communications Coordinator, Indonesia
• Jan 2000 -
Feb 2002, B.A. Professional Communications, RMIT University, Australia
Mauricio Salazar
Email: mauricio.salazar.giraldo@gmail.com
MSc Thesis Title: REDD+ as a Strategy to Consolidate Community Forest
Management. A Case Study Choco Darien
Colombia.
Date of Award: Sept. 2011
Key areas of interest: Community based Conservation, Forest Communities, Forest
Conservancy, Sustainable Development, REDD+
Current research/work activities: Project Coordinator
Conservation Corridor Choco - Darien under REDD+ scheme.
Brief CV:
• Sep 2011,
Project Coordinator, Anthrotect, Colombia
• Sep 2011,
MSc Anthropology, Environment and Development, UCL, London
• Jun 2006 to
2010, Project Coordinator, Botanical Garden of Medellin, Colombia
• Jun 2006 ,
Forest Engineer, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia
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
