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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

Performance of state-of-the-art C3S European seasonal climate forecast models for mean and extreme precipitation over Africa
Solomon Gebrechorkos, Ming Pan, HE Beck & Justin Sheffield, 2022, Water Resources Research, 58(3)
DOI: 10.1029/2021WR031480
Type: article
Early season prediction of within-field crop yield variability by assimilating CubeSat data into a crop model
Matteo G. Ziliani, Muhammad U. Altaf, Bruno Aragon, Rasmus Houburg, Trenton E. Franz, Yang Lu, Justin Sheffield, Ibrahim Hoteit & Matthew F. McCabe, 2021, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 313
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2021.108736
Type: article
Growing spatial overlap between dam-related flooding, cropland and domestic water points: A water–energy–food nexus management challenge in Malawi and Ghana
Chengxiu Li, Weiyu Yu, Mawuli Dzodzomenyo, Moses Asamoah, Catherine Tlotlo Kerapetse, Matthew Kandel & Jim Wright, 2021, Frontiers in Water, 3
DOI: 10.3389/frwa.2021.730370
Type: article
Recent changes in cropland area and productivity indicate unsustainable cropland expansion in Malawi
Chengxiu Li, Matthew Kandel, Daniela Anghileri, Francis Oloo, Oscar Kambombe, Tendai Polite Chibarabada, Cosmo Ngongondo, Justin Sheffield & Jadunandan Dash, 2021, Environmental Research Letters, 16(8)
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ac162a
Type: article
Global sensitivity analysis of crop yield and transpiration from the FAO-AquaCrop model for dryland environments
Yang Lu, Tendai Chibarabada, Matthew McCabe, Gabrielle De Lannoy & Justin Sheffield, 2021, Field Crops Research, 269, 1-15
DOI: 10.1016/j.fcr.2021.108182
Type: article