An Ansoms
An Ansoms is a professor in the social sciences at UCLouvain (Belgium). She heads a research group on rural transformations in Central and Eastern Africa (www.juwaresearch.org). The team is involved in interdisciplinary research on climate change and natural resource conflict. They conduct in-depth research in eastern DRC, Rwanda and Burundi; and they adopt innovative and action-oriented methodological approaches that engage with various forms of art (theatre, cartoons, songs). An is also an expert on research ethics, focusing in particular upon ethical and emotional dilemmas in difficult research fields.
