Pro-conservation Livelihoods and Community Capabilities for Marine Protected Area Governance

GCRF Funding Cycle2020-21 Principal InvestigatorTim Stojanvoic SchoolsGeography & Sustainable Development, Computer Science ODA countriesMadagascar, Ghana, Kenya Sustainable Development GoalsGoal 1, Goal 4 Global expansion of marine protected areas (MPAs) is set to rapidly continue, adding to the astounding 28 million sq.km of oceans and coasts designated since 2000, to deliver the SDG Target 14.1. These … Read more

The St Andrews – Africa Research (StAAHR) Health Network (consolidator)

The St Andrews Africa Research (StAAHR) Health Network has a mission of using interdisciplinary approaches to address interactable global health challenges. Led by Dr Wilber Sabiiti and Dr Katherine Keenan, the network will offer training to increase south-south data analysis and research dissemination skills and build a digital resource centre hosting the network’s outputs and … Read more

Valuing Intact Tropical Peatlands

GCRF Funding Cycle2018-19 Principal InvestigatorKaty Roucoux SchoolsGeography & Sustainable Development ODA countriesPeru Sustainable Development GoalsGoal 12, Goal 13 This work is studying the social, economic and cultural values of peatlands in the Peruvian Amazon to complement existing scientific research on the carbon content, ecology and formation of tropical peatlands in the Pastaza-Marañón Foreland Basin. It … Read more

Motoring from War to Peace

Supporting Social Reintegration of Liberia’s Conflict Affected Youth through Nationwide Counter-Stigma Efforts GCRF Funding Cycle2019-20 Principal InvestigatorJaremey McMullin SchoolsInternational Relations ODA countriesGuinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Côte d’Ivoire Sustainable Development GoalsGoal 10, Goal 16 Investigating the disarmament, demobilisation, and reintegration of those who have been involved in war, a researcher from the School of International Relations has been … Read more