Postgraduate research students

Mangroves are highly diverse but vulnerable ecosystems that provide several ecosystem services. Despite their importance, they have been degraded or converted to other forms of land use, while many restoration and conservation projects lack an understanding of the socio-ecological complexities. My research aims to develop an interdisciplinary decision support tool that accounts for these complexities to successfully inform mangrove restoration and conservation strategies in the Mekong, Red River and Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna deltas.

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• Professor Fabrice Renaud
• Dr Emma Laurie

SAGES Small Grants Scheme for conference attendance | Scottish Alliance for Geoscience, Environment and Society (SAGES) | 2023

Travel Grant to attend 'CoSS PGR Symposium' at University of Glasgow, UK | College of Social Sciences, University of Glasgow | 2022

Travel Grant to attend 'Mangrove Resilience Workshop' at Newcastle University, UK | Newton Bhabha Fund Researcher Link Workshop, through British Council in collaboration with the Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India | 2021

GCRF Living Deltas PhD Scholarship | College of Social Sciences, University of Glasgow | 2021-2024

Research Grant for study visit and internship abroad at Bangor University, UK | ERASMUS+ | 2015-2016

Travel Grant to attend 'Summer School in Human Geography' at Altai State University, Russia | German Academic Exchange Service | 2013

2024

• 'GTA Developers Forum' (Sheffield, UK)

2023

• '6th Mangrove Macrobenthos and Management Conference (MMM6)' (Cartagena, CO)
• 'SAGES 2023 Annual Science Meeting (ASM)' (Aberdeen, UK)

2022

• 'SAGES 2022 Annual Science Meeting (ASM)' (Dundee, UK)
• 'Delta Futures: (In)Visibilities in Audiovisual Culture' (online)
• 'CoSS PGR Symposium' (Glasgow, UK)

2021

• Workshop: 'Building Ecological Resilience in Vulnerable Mangroves of the Indian Sundarbans: Sustainable and Equitable Management of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in the era of Climate Change' (Newcastle, UK)

2020

• Workshop: 'Place-based socio-ecological research in times of covid-19' (online)
• 'UK Alliance for Disaster Research (UKADR) September Sessions' (online)

2019

• 'German Congress for Geography' (Kiel, DE)
• 'First International AtlantOS Symposium' (Paris, FRA)

2018

• Workshop: 'Climate Change Adaptation Finance: How to Govern and Distribute Scarce Funding?' (Kiel, DE)
• 'EOOS Conference' (Brussels, BEL)
• 'IMDIS Conference' (Barcelona, ESP)
• 'Connecting glider data flows in Europe and beyond – An international conference on glider data management' (Genoa, ITA)
• Workshop: 'Marine Social Science' (Kiel, DE)
• Workshop: 'Decadal Climate Forecasts' (Hamburg, DE)
• Workshop: 'Coastal Ocean Modelling' (Hamburg, DE)

2016

• Workshop: 'Tidal Lagoons' (Menai Bridge, UK)
• 'Oceanology International' (London, UK)

My GTA experience includes teaching level 1 and 2 Geography classes, Upskilling courses, and Widening Participation initiatives.

My qualifications include a Bachelor of Science in Geography from Giessen University and a Master of Science in Environmental Geography and Management from Kiel University and Bangor University. Before joining the Living Deltas Hub project as a PhD student, I worked in a junior research group at Kiel University, for GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and for Germany’s National Meteorological Service in Hamburg. With a particularly strong passion for the coastal environment, my research interests are driven by climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction with a focus on interdisciplinary, applied, and collaborative research tailored to achieve societal impact. Previously, I worked on adaptation finance, vulnerability to sea-level rise, ocean observation systems and nearshore wave modelling.

I am a member of:

• Scottish Alliance for Geoscience, Environment and Society (SAGES) 
• Marine Alliance for Science and Technology for Scotland (MASTS)
• Scottish Graduate School for Social Science (SGSSS) 
• GTA Developers Forum