Afsana Esha

PhD Student

Esha started her PhD in 2022 (funded by the Christopher Moyes Memorial Foundation).  Her tentative PhD title is Avoiding graveyards of drinking water technologies in Bangladesh.  Esha is working on issues around water security, looking at drinking water infrastructure situating them as social, economic, and material infrastructure with the aim to understand how the technologies and their governance affect the experiences of people.

Ritwika Basu

PhD Student

Ritwika started her PhD in 2019 (funded by the Christopher Moyes Memorial Foundation). Her PhD title is Climate resilience with or without migrants in cities of the Global South. It will interrogate the inclusion potential of governance of climate risk and resilience in Indian cities. The work primarily draws on the evolving theories of social resilience, climate justice and environmental and climate mobility.

Naznin Nasir

PhD Student

Naznin started her PhD in 2018 (funded by the Christopher Moyes Memorial Foundation). Her PhD focuses on the intersection of postcolonial geography, climate change, and development. Prior to coming to Durham, she was coordinating the migration programme of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Ivo Pink

PhD Student

Ivo started his PhD in 2019 (Donor funded). His PhD title is Modelling and Mapping Flood Hazards in Data Poor Environments: the case of Nepal. The research focuses on the application of remote sensing and geospatial modelling techniques to determine flood hazard patterns and quantify the long-term flood risk in the Himalayan foreland. This includes the i) mapping of source areas for the generation of floodwater and sediments; ii) determination of the flood hazard magnitude and frequency under consideration of climate change impacts; iii) simulation of morphological changes in the flood plains that influence the flood hazards; and iv) simulation of spatial flood hazard patterns under current and future hydrological and morphological conditions.