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Doctoral supervision:

I am interested to discuss proposals from prospective doctoral students in any of the areas of my research interests mentioned above, particularly but not exclusively in relation to sub-Saharan Africa.

Current PhD supervision: (as First supervisor)

• Danilo German Amaya, ‘Livelihoods, Upgrading and Adaptive Capacity in the Colombian Dairy Value Chain.’ Funded by Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innnovación – MINCIENCIAS, from the Republic of Colombia. With Prof. Einar Vargas Bello Perez (���� of Chihuahua, Mexico).
• Abiola Ayodeji, ‘Intrahousehold Dynamics, Gender, and Food Security in Rural Households in South-West Nigeria.’ Funded by the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission. With Prof. Uma Kambhampati (Economics)

(And as Second supervisor):

• Christopher Mweembe, 'Cash Transfers, Social exclusion and Inequality in social protection programmes in Binga District, Zimbabwe.' - with Dr. Alex Arnall.
• Al Hassan Cisse, 'An Evidence-Based Analysis of Synergies between Agricultural Interventions and Social Protection to Address Climate Change Adaptation for Food Security in Senegal.' - with Prof. Henny Osbahr.
• Isaac Ogundare, ‘Household and Community Adaptation Strategies to Water shortages in Ibadan, Nigeria.’ – with Prof. Hong Yang (SAGES).

Completed PhD students:

• Anastasia Ngenyi, ‘Understanding participatory approaches to biodiversity conservation in the TRIDOM, Congo Basin forest, Central Africa.'  (co-supervised with Dr. Jo Davies). Anastasia will graduate in Jul 2025.
• Shahrina Rahman, 'Social Resilience and Adaptation to Climate change: The voice of Disabled people in Bangladesh.' (co-supervised first with Prof. Ruth Evans, then with Dr. Jo Davies). Shahrina will graduate in 2025.
• Gilbert Ngwaneh Miki, 'The contribution of the Home-Grown School Feeding Model for food security and poverty alleviation amongst small scale farmers in Malawi'. Commonwealth Scholarship recipient. - (co-supervised with Prof. Peter Dorward). Gilbert graduated in Jul 2024.
• Chimkanma Wigwe, 'Stakeholders' efforts toward developing artisanal fish farmers' resilience to oil spillage in Rivers State, Nigeria.' Commonwealth Scholarship recipient. Chimkanma graduated in Dec 2023. (co-supervised with Prof. Chittur Srinivasan).
• Heather Maggs, 'On the subject of donkeys (in Ghana).' (second supervisor, co-supervised with Prof. Richard Bennett). Recipient of funding from The Donkey Sanctuary. Heather graduated in  2022.
• Zainab Aliyu, 'How effective is the climate justice movement in sub-Saharan Africa?' Registered Oct 2017. Recipient of a Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarship in Climate Justice (co-supervised with Dr. Filippo Menga). Zainab graduated in Dec 2021.
• Atenchong Talleh Nkobou, 'Political economy of large-scale land investments and the right to adequate food in Tanzania.' Commonwealth Scholarship recipient. (co-supervised with Prof. Rosa Freedman). Atenchong graduated in Dec 2021.
• Africa Bauza Garcia-Arcicollar, 'Towards Just Climate Futures: Embracing islanders' hopes and aspirations in the context of climate-related migration in the Maldives.' Recipient of a Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarship in Climate Justice. (second supervisor, co-supervised with Dr. Alex Arnall). Africa graduated in Dec 2021.
• Sam Poskitt, 'Investigating the benefits of Participatory Scenario Planning for tackling social-ecological problems.' (First supervisor, co-supervised with Dr. Kerry Waylen at the James Hutton Institute, Aberdeen). Joint ESRC and James Hutton Institute scholarships. Sam graduated in Jul 2018.
• David Enibe, 'Breadfruit and development in south eastern Nigeria' (second supervisor, co-supervision with Peter Dorward). David graduated in Dec 2017.
• Joana Vaz Sousa, 'People-wildlife interactions in Guinea-Bissau.' (second supervisor, co-supervision with Prof. Kate Hill at Oxford Brookes ����). Joana graduated in March 2015.

Affiliations

• International Development Department
• (Co-ordinator)
• Global Development Research Division