Research project

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.
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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
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Professor Chris Hill

Professorial Fellow-Enterprise
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Professor Gopal Ramchurn

Professor of Artificial Intelligence
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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
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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
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Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs

Chengxiu Li, Ellasy Chimimba, Oscar Kambombe, Luke Brown, Tendai Chibarabada, Yang Lu, Daniela Anghileri, Cosmo Ngongondo, Justin Sheffield & Jadunandan Dash, 2022, Remote Sensing, 14(10)
Type: article
Daniela Anghileri, Veronica Bozzini, Peter Molnar, Andrew A.J. Jamali & Justin Sheffield, 2022, Agricultural Water Management, 262
Type: article
Chengxiu Li, Jadunandan Dash, Moses Asamoah, Justin Sheffield, Mawuli Dzodzomenyo, Solomon Gebrechorkos, Daniela Anghileri & Jim Wright, 2022, Scientific Reports, 12(1)
Type: article