Towards Urban Water Security (UWE)
Chad Staddon
Prof Chad Staddon is Professor of Resource Economics and Policy at UWE, Bristol and founder-director of the International Water Security Network. In the course of his 20 year career he has studied water services in Canada, the US, the UK and many European countries.
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Enda Hayes
Enda Hayes has worked in the environmental field for over 15 years with a primary focus on biosystems, air quality and carbon management, including traditional air pollutants (e.g. particulate matter, nitrogen dioxide, ozone, ammonia), greenhouse gases and bioaerosols.
Thomas Appleby
Tom Appleby is a former commercial lawyer and a leading researcher in water law. He has been involved in number of ground-breaking research projects including work which helped to establish the first marine reserve in Scotland with the Community of Arran Seabed Trust and the world’s largest marine park around the Chagos Archipelago with the Blue Marine Foundation.
Mark Everard
Dr Mark Everard is Associate Professor of Ecosystem Services at the University of the West of England. He is also a broadcaster and author of many books and magazine features about ecosystems, sustainability, water and wetlands including their sustainable use, conservation and fish fauna.
Thanti Octavianti
Dr Thanti Octavianti is a Research Fellow in Cities, Water and Resilience at the University of the West of England in Bristol, where she investigates the socio-technical aspects of household water provision in Indonesia, Uganda, Haiti and Mexico.
Alan Terry
Alan Terry is a Senior Lecturer in Geography in the Department of Geography and Environmental Management at The University of the West of England, Bristol.
Kiran Tota-Maharaj
Dr Kiran Tota-Maharaj is Reader in Civil and Environmental Engineering (Water and Environmental Engineering) at Aston Infrastructure and Sustainable Engineering School, Department of Civil Engineering, Aston University Birmingham.
Sarah Ward
Dr Sarah Ward is an Associate Professor working with IWSN through the Centre for Water, Communities and Resilience at the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol). Sarah joined the IWSN/UWE in October 2017, after 10 years at the University of Exeter.
Emma Bean
Emma Bean joined the International Water Security Network in 2016 following a career in private practice as a real estate solicitor.
Natasha Bradshaw
Natasha Bradshaw joined the International Water Security Network in 2015 with twenty years of experience in marine and coastal governance. She is undertaking a Doctorate in coastal governance with Enda Hayes and Tom Appleby at UWE.
Jenna Brown
Jenna Brown is a PhD Researcher in the department of Geography and Environmental Management at the University of the West of England (UWE).
Ola Michalec
Ola (Aleksandra) Michalec is a final year PhD student at the University of the West of England. She is researching the potential for co-designing local policies leading to a sustainable and just future in Bristol.
Karen Simpson
Karen Simpson joined the International Water Security Network in 2016 with over two decades experience in the water industry. She is undertaking a Doctorate in water efficiency and behaviour change with Prof. Chad Staddon.
Strengthening Transboundary Water Security (University of Arizona)
Robert G. Varady
Robert Varady is interim director of the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy at The University of Arizona. He also is a research professor of environmental policy at the Udall Center, research professor of arid lands studies in the School of Natural Resources and the Environment, and adjunct professor in the Department of Hydrology and Water Resources.
Christopher A. Scott
Christopher Scott works on the Arid Americas and Andes-Himalayas components of the International Water Security Network. He is Director of the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy, Professor at the School of Geography & Development (see: Water Resources and Policy Group), Distinguished Scholar at the University of Arizona, adjunct professor in several other UA departments, and Co-Director of the AQUASEC Center of Excellence for Water Security.
Rafael Routson de Grenade
Rafael de Grenade is a post-doctoral research associate at the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy (UC), where she works on IWSN Work Package 3, Transboundary Water Security in the Arid Americas. Rafael’s research, outreach, and teaching has focused on agrobiodiversity, climate adaptation, and food and water security in arid lands, specifically in the binational Sonoran Desert of the Southwest United States, and Sonora and the Baja California peninsula, Mexico.
Adriana Zuniga-Teran
Adriana Zuniga-Teran is a Postdoctoral Research Associate with the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy at the University of Arizona (UA) where she is working on Transboundary Water Security in the Arid Americas (IWSN Work Package 3).
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Andrea K. Gerlak
Andrea K. Gerlak is a faculty research associate at the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy at the University of Arizona, and director of academic development with the International Studies Association (ISA). She holds a B.A. in political science from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Arizona.
Bhuwan Thapa (MPP)
Bhuwan Thapa is a PhD student of Geography in the School of Geography and Development at University of Arizona. His research interest focuses on policy analysis of climate change, integrated assessment of river basins, the water-energy nexus, and synergy and trade-off between mitigation, adaptation and sustainable development.
Tamee Albrecht (MS)
Tamee Albrecht is a PhD student in the School of Geography and Development and a graduate research associate at the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy, both at the University of Arizona. Her research interests include transboundary water security, climate change adaptation, human-natural systems, and geospatial decision-support.
Arica Crootof (MS)
Arica Crootof completed her Ph.D. at the University of Arizona’s School of Geography and Development in 2018. She also worked as a graduate research associate at the Udall Center for Public Policy, contributing to IWSN activities as she examined water security issues in the Nepali Himalayas.
Improving Water Quality Security (Monash South Africa MSA)
Bimo Nkhata
Bimo Nkhata is the designated project manager of the International Water Security Network in Africa, representing Monash University South Africa where he is employed as Director and Associate Professor of the Water Research Node.
Charles Mackie Breen
It was probably inevitable that I would become an ecologist growing up as I did in Zambia at a time when kids could roam free through the Brachystegia woodlands. So, I studied botany and zoology before a tortuous path led me to ecology.
Duncan Hay
Duncan Hay is the Executive Director of the Institute of Natural Resources, an independent applied research organisation. He was previously a staff member at the Institute from 1992 to 1998 and served as an internal director from 1998 to 2004.
Linda Downsborough
Linda Downsborough has completed a Masters in Education, specialising in Environmental Education from Rhodes University. Her passion for conservation and learning culminated in her investigating social learning processes amongst citrus farmers in the Eastern Cape of South Africa.
Machaya Chomba
Machaya Chomba is a PhD candidate at the Water Research Node at Monash South Africa. His research focuses on examining relationships between organisations collaborating in water resources management in a river basin context.
Busani Masiri
Busani Masiri is a Doctoral Researcher with the Water Research Node at Monash South Africa. His research interests include environmental management, water quality security, water-related risk management and water governance.
Project Management (UWE)
Chad Staddon
Prof Chad Staddon is Professor of Resource Economics and Policy at UWE, Bristol and founder-director of the International Water Security Network. In the course of his 20 year career he has studied water services in Canada, the US, the UK and many European countries.
@Doctor_Chad
Chad.Staddon@uwe.ac.uk
Enda Hayes
Enda Hayes has worked in the environmental field for over 15 years with a primary focus on biosystems, air quality and carbon management, including traditional air pollutants (e.g. particulate matter, nitrogen dioxide, ozone, ammonia), greenhouse gases and bioaerosols.
Wayne Powell
Wayne Powell handles administration and communications for the International Water Security Network. Before taking on this role in September 2013, he worked as a research associate at the University of the West of England (UWE) on a three-and-a-half-year project on Media Accountability and Transparency in Europe and the Arab World (MediaAcT)
External Advisory Board
Dr Sara Ahmed
Dr Sara Ahmed is an independent researcher with more than 25 years of experience on the political economy of water, rural development and gender equity in India.
Aziza Akhmouch
Aziza Akhmouch is leading the Water Governance Programme of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
Patric Bulmer
Patric Bulmer has worked in the UK water industry for 24 years. He is a Chartered Environmentalist and member of the UK Institute of Water, and works as the Environment Manager for Bristol Water, the company that provides water to the UK city of Bristol.
Shanna Nienaber
Shanna Nienaber joined the Water Research Commission in June 2016. Prior to this, she was Chair of the South African Young Water Professionals (YWP-ZA) Programme.
Judith Turner
Judith Turner is EMS Technical Manager at Lloyd’s Register Quality Assurance (LRQA). She joined LRQA in 1999 as an EMS Lead Assessor specialising in minerals and waste and, with further cross training, became a Senior Lead Assessor EMS, EnMS & OHSAS.