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

Staff

Lead researcher

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 Guy Poppy CB FMedSci

Professor In Biological Sciences
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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
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Professor Gopal Ramchurn

Professor of Artificial Intelligence
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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

Ecology and Evolution

The Ecology and Evolution research group covers the interactions of species with their environment.

Environmental Change and Sustainability

We carry out geospatial analysis and experimentation to understand environmental change and potential solutions.

GeoData

We manage, analyse and process environmental data. Our consultancy services and interdisciplinary research projects range from managing river catchments and coastal zones to the wider fields of environment, social and economic development.

Population, Health and Wellbeing (PHeW)

We combine expertise in population, health and wellbeing with the application of technical excellence in geographic information systems (GIS), spatial analysis and qualitative methods.

Research outputs

Quantifying cooperation benefits for new dams in transboundary water systems without formal operating rules
Jose M. Gonzalez, Evgenii S. Matrosov, Emmanuel Obuobie, Marloes Mul, Laetitia Pettinotti, Solomon Gebrechorkos, Justin Sheffield, Andrea Bottacin-Busolin, James Dalton, D. Mark Smith & Julien J. Harou, 2021, Frontiers in Environmental Science, 9
DOI: 10.3389/fenvs.2021.596612
Type: article
Assessing social equity in Farmer-Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR) interventions: findings from Ghana
2021, Ecological Restoration, 39(1-2), 64-76
DOI: 10.3368/er.39.1-2.64
Type: article
Integrated approaches to understanding and reducing drought impact on food security across scales
Xiaogang He, Lyndon Estes, Megan Konar, Di Tian, Daniela Anghileri, Kathy Baylis, Tom P. Evans & Justin Sheffield, 2019, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 40, 43-54
DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2019.09.006
Type: review
Satellites and crop interventions
Jadunandan Dash, 2019, Nature Sustainability, 2(10), 903-904
DOI: 10.1038/s41893-019-0402-3
Type: article
Satellite remote sensing for water resources management
J. Sheffield, E.F. Wood, M. Pan, H. Beck, G. Coccia, A. Serrat-Capdevila & K. Verbist, 2018, Water Resources Research, 54(12), 9724-9758
DOI: 10.1029/2017WR022437
Type: review