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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: Justin.Sheffield@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Professor Guy Poppy CB FMedSci

Professor In Biological Sciences
Connect with Guy

Email: G.M.Poppy@soton.ac.uk

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: J.A.Wright@soton.ac.uk

Professor Chris Hill

Professorial Fellow-Enterprise
Connect with Chris

Email: cth@geodata.soton.ac.uk

Professor Gopal Ramchurn

Professor of Artificial Intelligence
Connect with Gopal

Email: sdr1@soton.ac.uk

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: L.Lewis@soton.ac.uk

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: J.DASH@soton.ac.uk

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

Cooperative adaptive management of the Nile river with climate and socio-economic uncertainties
Mohammed Basheer, Victor Nechifor, Alvaro Calzadilla, Solomon Gebrechorkos, David Pritchard, Nathan Forsythe, Jose M. Gonzalez, Justin Sheffield, Hayley J. Fowler & Julien J. Harou, 2023, Nature Climate Change, 13, 48-57
DOI: 10.1038/s41558-022-01556-6
Type: article
Negotiating Nile infrastructure management should consider climate change uncertainties
Mohammed Basheer, Victor Nechifor, Alvaro Calzadilla, Solomon Gebrechorkos, David Pritchard, Nathan Forsythe, Jose M. Gonzalez, Justin Sheffield, Hayley J. Fowler & Julien J. Harou, 2023, Nature Climate Change, 13(1), 17-19
DOI: 10.1038/s41558-022-01557-5
Type: article
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
Variability and changes in hydrological drought in the Volta Basin, West Africa
Solomon Gebrechorkos, Daniela Anghileri, Justin Sheffield, Ming Pan, Peirong Lin, Nathan Forsythe, David M.W. Pritchard, Hayley J. Fowler, Emmanuel Obuobie & Debroah Darko, 2022, Journal of Hydrology, 42
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrh.2022.101143
Type: article
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