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Academic position: Post-doctoral Research Fellow
Department: Science and Technology Studies and IRDR
Email address: m.rokhideh@ucl.ac.uk
URL: https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/96716-maryam-rokhideh
Biography:
Maryam’s work lies at the environment-development-security nexus and centres on how communities deal with intersecting crises and Anthropogenic effects in the social and environment system. As an interdisciplinary researcher, her research engages with intersectional and decolonial approaches to interrogate issues of inequality, sustainable livelihoods, and uneven development as they relate to environmental policies and resource governance. She has conducted long-term ethnographic fieldwork with conflict-affected communities in the Great Lakes region of Africa, including DR Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, and Uganda and continues fieldwork in complex humanitarian settings around the world. She regularly works with civil society, non-governmental, and international organisations on finding policy-driven solutions to emerging crises and threats.
She holds PhD degrees in Anthropology and Conflict & Peace Studies from the University of Notre Dame and an MA in Conflict Resolution from the University of Bradford.
Research Projects:
EU Horizon- The Human-Tech Nexus Building a Safe Haven to Cope with Climate Extremes https://thehut-nexus.eu/
UKRI- Bridging Top-down Policies with Bottom-up Development in Mining Communities of Central and Southern Africa
