Meet the GloNeW Team
Dr Joe Williams is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Geographical Sciences at the University of Bristol, UK. Joe works in the fields of human geography, urban political ecology and global development. His research focuses on the politics of water and energy infrastructure as a lens for critically understanding social and ecological challenges, such as water stress and climate change. He has a long-standing interest in understanding the social, political and economic dimensions of desalination. Joe is also an honorary research fellow at the University of Nairobi (Kenya) and Cardiff University (UK).
Contact: jg.williams@bristol.ac.uk
Dr Livia Perosino is a post-doctoral researcher at University of Bristol, UK, within the GloNeW Project. With a background in political science, she specialised on the Southwest Asia and North Africa (SWANA) region, particularly on topics related to water and agriculture. She conducts research at the intersection of political ecology and political economy. She teaches a course entitled “Water and Agriculture in the SWANA region” in the Middle Eastern department of Sciences Po Grenoble.
Contact: livia.perosino@bristol.ac.uk
Erin Rugland is a PhD student in Human Geography at the University of Bristol, UK. After growing up in the Sonoran Desert, her work is an effort to understand the politics of responding to water scarcity, drawing upon water management, political ecology, and urban infrastructures. She holds an MPhil in Water Science, Policy and Management from the University of Oxford and dual bachelor’s degrees in Public Policy and Justice Studies from Arizona State University.
Contact: e.rugland@bristol.ac.uk
Dr Wangui Kimari is an anthropologist based at the American University Nairobi Center, Kenya. Her work draws on many local histories and theoretical approaches – including oral narratives, assemblage theory, urban political ecology, the black radical tradition and various approaches in anthropology – in order to think through urban spatial management in Nairobi from the vantage point of its most marginalised residents.
Contact: wkimari@american.edu
Dr Pierre-Louis Mayaux is a political scientist at the Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement (CIRAD), France. He is a honorary research fellow at the University of Meknès (Morocco) and currently visiting researcher at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). He is primarily interested in how water scarcity reshapes politics, policies and the political economy in a variety of places.
Contact: pierre-louis.mayaux@cirad.fr
Dr. Mwangi Chege is a Research Fellow at the British Institute in Eastern Africa (BIEA), in Nairobi, Kenya. He completed his PhD. in Geography at Clark University and has a background in Economic Geography, Political Economy and Political Ecology. His research interests encompass rural-urban dynamics in East Africa, thinking about how translocal flows, mobilities and circulations land and interact with specific geographies. He holds an M.A. in International Relations and Economics from the Johns Hopkins University and a B.A. in Geography from the University of South Africa.
Contact: mwangi.chege@biea.ac.uk
Boaz Ogada is a Climate Scientist at the Institute for Climate Change and Adaptation (ICCA), University of Nairobi. His research lies at the intersection of climate risk management, early warning systems, and water security. As a transdisciplinary researcher, Boaz focuses on providing insights on how communities, institutions, and scientists can co-produce knowledge to anticipate and respond to climate- and water-related risks, and the implications of new technologies for adaptation planning amongst vulnerable communities and ecosystems across Africa. He holds an MSc in Climate Change Adaptation at the University of Nairobi.
Contact: Boazogada95@gmail.com