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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

Social capital typologies and sustainable development: spatial patterns in the central and southern regions of Malawi
Ailish Craig, Craig W. Hutton & Justin Sheffield, 2022, Sustainability, 14(15)
DOI: 10.3390/su14159374
Type: article
Multi-variable assimilation into a modified AquaCrop model for improved maize simulation without management or crop phenology information
Yang Lu, Chunzhu Wei, Matthew F. Mccabe & Justin Sheffield, 2022, Agricultural Water Management, 266(5)
DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2022.107576
Type: article
Maize yield estimation in intercropped smallholder fields using satellite data in southern Malawi
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)
DOI: 10.3390/rs14102458
Type: article
Comparison of hydrological and vegetation remote sensing datasets as proxies for rainfed maize yield in Malawi
Daniela Anghileri, Veronica Bozzini, Peter Molnar, Andrew A.J. Jamali & Justin Sheffield, 2022, Agricultural Water Management, 262
DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2021.107375
Type: article
Increased flooded area and exposure in the White Volta river basin in Western Africa, identified from multi-source remote sensing data
Chengxiu Li, Jadunandan Dash, Moses Asamoah, Justin Sheffield, Mawuli Dzodzomenyo, Solomon Gebrechorkos, Daniela Anghileri & Jim Wright, 2022, Scientific Reports, 12(1)
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-07720-4
Type: article