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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.
Other researchers

Professor Guy Baverstock-Poppy

Professor In Biological Sciences

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

Professor Chris Hill

Professorial Fellow-Enterprise

Professor Gopal Ramchurn

Professor of Artificial Intelligence

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

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

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

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
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
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
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
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