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UK Global Challenges Research Fund: “Growing Research Capability to Meet the Challenges Faced by Developing Countries

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Justin Sheffield

Head of School

Research interests

  • Large-scale hydrology and its interactions with climate variability and change.
  • Hydrological extremes, climate change, and hydrological processes from catchment to global scale.
  • The application of fundamental research to natural hazards impacts reduction, including monitoring and prediction systems.
Connect with Justin

Email: [email protected]

Other researchers

Professor Jim Wright

Professor in GIS & Int Development

Research interests

  • Safe water access and public health in Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Environmental applications of GIS
  • Geospatial analysis for public health, particularly via routine health management information systems
Connect with Jim

Email: [email protected]

Professor Chris Hill

Professorial Fellow-Enterprise
Connect with Chris

Email: [email protected]

Professor Gopal Ramchurn

Professor of Artificial Intelligence
Connect with Gopal

Email: [email protected]

Professor Laura Lewis

Professor of Anthropology

Research interests

  • History and ethnography of race and Afro-Mexico/Afro-Latin America
  • Latin America and the Caribbean
  • Mexico
Connect with Laura

Email: [email protected]

Professor Jadu Dash

Professor of Remote Sensing

Research interests

  • Satellite derived land surface phenology and its validation with ground data
  • Developing a chlorophyll content based production efficiency model to quantify terrestrial carbon uptake
  • Impact of extreme climatic events on vegetation phenology
Connect with Jadu

Email: [email protected]

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs

A qualitative study of lived experience and life courses following dam release flooding in Northern Ghanaian communities: implications for damage and loss assessment
Moses Asamoah, Mawuli Dzodzomenyo, Chengxiu Li, Linda Serwaa Agyemang & Jim Wright, 2024, PLoS ONE, 19(12)
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0310952
Type: article
Cooperative adaptive management of the Nile river with climate and socio-economic uncertainties
Mohammed Basheer, Victor Nechifor, Alvaro Calzadilla, Solomon Gebrechorkos, David Pritchard, Nathan Forsythe, Jose M. Gonzalez, Justin Sheffield, Hayley J. Fowler & Julien J. Harou, 2023, Nature Climate Change, 13, 48-57
DOI: 10.1038/s41558-022-01556-6
Type: article
Negotiating Nile infrastructure management should consider climate change uncertainties
Mohammed Basheer, Victor Nechifor, Alvaro Calzadilla, Solomon Gebrechorkos, David Pritchard, Nathan Forsythe, Jose M. Gonzalez, Justin Sheffield, Hayley J. Fowler & Julien J. Harou, 2023, Nature Climate Change, 13(1), 17-19
DOI: 10.1038/s41558-022-01557-5
Type: article
Impact of flooding on microbiological contamination of domestic water sources: a longitudinal study in northern Ghana
Mawuli Dzodzomenyo, Moses Asamoah, Chengxiu Li, Elvis Kichana & Jim Wright, 2022, Applied Water Science, 12(10)
DOI: 10.1007/s13201-022-01757-6
Type: article
Variability and changes in hydrological drought in the Volta Basin, West Africa
Solomon Gebrechorkos, Daniela Anghileri, Justin Sheffield, Ming Pan, Peirong Lin, Nathan Forsythe, David M.W. Pritchard, Hayley J. Fowler, Emmanuel Obuobie & Debroah Darko, 2022, Journal of Hydrology, 42
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrh.2022.101143
Type: article