Amanda Douge
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Actress, writer and scholar, Amanda Douge brings her arts experience and passion to the polycrisis facing both earth systems and humanity. Her practice-based climate research is gathering a growing audience across Norway, Scotland, Ireland, U.S.A, Australia and England. Amanda successfully combines her critical scholarship with her arts background, presenting research in entertaining, moving, sometimes hilarious, and impactful artistic forms.
A Doctoral candidate with the University of Glasgow, Amanda’s creative and critical thesis interrogates the ways in which poetic syntax can activate political agency for the purposes of climate revolution. She deconstructs inherited, carbon infrastructures through poetics and critical theory, reflecting on and synthesizing political economy, climate sociology, neurobiology, ecological imperatives and social transformation.
An experienced teacher, workshop facilitator and theatre director, Amanda is interested in performance as a climate pedagogy in both community, research and arts settings.
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/amanda-douge-55712646/
Linet Namugerwa
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Linet Namugerwa is passionate about driving a meaningful change both in the society and in the network of my affiliation. She is a social worker dedicated to advancing education, research and community development through participation, sustainability and equity. She specialises in community development, proposal development and collaborative projects that empower communities for development of their wellbeing. As a member of Sustainable Futures Global, she is committed to co–creating in areas of innovation and producing locally rooted solutions for a sustainable world.
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Sundas Mahar
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Sundas is a doctoral student at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. Her research explores the use of indigenous and traditional environmental literacies for sustainability and regeneration in the contemporary context. She uses decolonial frameworks with ecopedagogy, deep ecology and Islamic environmental philosophy to study education for sustainability in its various forms.
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Brian Simbeye
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Brian Simbeye is the co-founder of Action for Social and Environmental Development (ASED), and currently he is one of the Directors. He is an upcoming researcher with one publication and 2 other pipeline research papers with a focus on climate change action, environmental sustainability and climate justice with a citizen science kind of approach.
Brian has been engaged in various works that relate to community development, climate justice and environmental sustainability, and this includes volunteer work in environmental advocacy with experience in climate action advocacy under the Climate Challenge Program Malawi.
Brian Simbeye is an environmentalist and an independent researcher. His research interests are in climate change and natural resources management with a special focus on how global environmental challenges impact people and the natural environment, and the interplay of policy issues in bringing about informed and sustainable solutions that are people‐centred. He is currently working on a citizen science research project, where he is working with refugees in trying to understand how they are coping with the environmental stress in relation to the different pandemics including COVID-19, thus with regard to the confined space they live in.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8304-1454
Twitter: https://twitter.com/briansimbeye1
Amos Ochieng
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Dr Amos Ochieng is a Lecturer and Researcher at Makerere University, Kampala Uganda. He holds BSc tourism management (Makerere University, Uganda), MSc tourism, environment and society, and PhD (Wageningen University and Research, the Netherlands). He is currently the country coordinator for the Radboud University-Makerere University Erasmus+ collaboration involving both staff and student exchanges. His research interests are in the areas of tourism and biodiversity conservation, sport hunting, ecological restoration, community wellbeing, climate change, climate justice, gender equality, biodiversity governance and sustainability, as well as understanding how these aspects affect participatory decision-making in any setting. He also offers consultancy services to government, civil society organisations and private sector at both national and international levels.
More about Amos:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Agjm_xsAAAAJ&hl=en
https://www.linkedin.com/in/amos-ochieng-40940519/
https://twitter.com/AmosOch38194648
https://orcid.org/0009-0002-5161-3897
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Amos-Ochieng-2
https://theconversation.com/profiles/amos-ochieng-699337
Mathijs van Leeuwen
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Mathijs van Leeuwen is a rural development sociologist, who specialises in conflict and peacebuilding in developing countries. After his graduation at Wageningen University in 1999, he worked as a researcher at Clingendael, and with various NGOs in Kenya, Sudan, Guatemala and Bolivia. His PhD research at Wageningen Disaster Studies (2004-2008) concerned discourses and practices of civil society peacebuilding and their international support, with fieldwork in a.o. Burundi and Guatemala.
Since 2009, Mathijs works at the Centre for International Conflict Analysis and Management (CICAM). His current research work focuses on land disputes, post-conflict land reform, local peacebuilding, state formation, and the discourses of intervening organizations on conflict and peace. Many of his research projects are interactive in nature, and challenge policy makers and practitioners from development organizations to critically reflect on their own work and on the implications of research findings for policy and intervention.
More about Mathijs:
www.ru.nl/en/people/leeuwen-m-van
orcid.org/0000-0002-1994-2626
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An Ansoms
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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.
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Lothar Smith
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Lothar Smith is Associate Professor in human geography at the Radboud University, The Netherlands. His research interests go out to processes related to changing social configurations coming out of migration such as gender role changes, institutional arrangements of local resources, and societal changes and frictions arising out of rural and urban development. To that end I have supervised a PhD project of the Centre for Poverty Analysis (CEPA) in Sri Lanka, looking at the role of diasporas in the redevelopment of post-conflict regions. I am also part of the Dutch-Indonesian New Indonesian Frontiers Programme that focuses on the impact on local populations of changing economic-ecological situations in Kalimantan. Another project, also in Indonesia, looks at the status of stateless Rohingya refugees.
In Ghana I have affiliations with the Centre for Migration Studies (Accra) and S.D. Dombo University of Business and Integrated Development Studies (Wa). Concerning the CMS I played an instrumental role in its research and educational program development. The relationship with the second has allowed for longitudinal research on rural-urban connectivities, livelihoods and mobility questions. This also pertains to climate change, gender shifts, youth aspirations and the reconfiguration of rural-urban spaces, the focus of PhD research I supervise in refugee camps of Uganda and in coastal Nigeria.
Juliette Alenda-Demoutiez
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Dr. Juliette Alenda-Demoutiez is an Assistant Professor at the chair group of Economic Theory and Policy and co-coordinator of the multi-disciplinary TransAct (Transformative sustainable change in Action) Hotspot at Radboud University (the Netherlands). Her research focuses on two main topics, both connected in order to understand how we can initiate systemic transformations for sustainable economies and societies. The first one is the participatory governance of nature in sub-Saharan Africa, with an institutionalist perspective. The second one is the development of alternative economic and development systems, with a focus on degrowth and post-development through a political-economic perspective. Juliette is partnering with different research networks in Europe and Africa to work on these issues in order to achieve transformations through different channels (research, education and policymaking).
Francis X. Jarawura
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Francis Xavier Jarawura has been researching into various issues in rural development with a focus on the northern Savannah of Ghana since 2007. Combining a rich background in development studies and human geography in traversing the region, he has gained extensive and invaluable experience in research. His main focus has been on migration, environmental change, and rural livelihoods.