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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.

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Other researchers

Professor Guy Baverstock-Poppy

Professor In Biological Sciences

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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

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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

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Mr Chris Hill

Geodata Institute Manager

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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

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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 & Sustainability

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

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

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
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
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
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