Teaching Staff
The teaching staff on the programme have wide experience in different developing regions and economies in transition, including Latin America (particularly Brazil, Argentina and Mexico), the Caribbean (Barbados, St Lucia, St Vincent, Trinidad and the Southern Caribbean, Guyana, Jamaica), West Africa (particularly Ghana, Nigeria) East Africa (particularly Kenya), Southern Africa (particularly Namibia and South Africa), South Asia (especially India and Sri Lanka), East Asian (especially China, Indonesia and Singapore), the Middle East, Iberia and Estonia, and Antarctica and the Falklands/Malvinas.
Vandana Desai, BA (Bombay), BSL (Poona), MPA (Liverpool), DPhil (Oxon) Senior Lecturer
NGOs and civil society, community participation and slum housing, globalisation and gender roles, survival strategies of the poor; especially in India.
Vandana teaches on the Globalisation and governance and Grassroots development modules.
Klaus Dodds, BSc, PhD (Bristol), Professor of Geopolitics; Director of Politics & Environment Research Group (PERG)
Geopolitics and international relations, development theory, international politics of Antarctica and Southern hemispheric environmental and political co-operation
Klaus teaches on the Water and development module.
Dorothea Kleine, MA/Staatsexamen (Munich), PhD (London), Lecturer
Globalisation, ICT4D, regional and local economic development, gender; Fair Trade, ethical consumption; Latin America, India
Dorothea teaches on the Grassroots development module and the Social Research Methods.
Jenny Kynaston, BSc Hons (Oxford Brookes) Cartographic Technician
Maps, graphics
Jenny teaches on the Tools for development and environment module.
Alex Loftus, MA (Edin), MA (Queens, Canada), DPhil (Oxon), RCUK Academic Fellow
Urban Political Ecology, Politics of Water, Urban Interventions
Alex teaches on the Globalisation and governance and Water and development modules.
Duncan McGregor, BSc, PhD (Edin), Senior Lecturer
Interaction of geomorphology, soil nutrient status and agricultural systems in the humid tropics; remote sensing; the Caribbean, with particular reference to Jamaica; Brazil; Colombia. Watershed management in peri-urban Kumasi, Ghana.
Duncan teaches on the Hazards and vulnerability and GIS and remote sensing modules.
Xingmin Meng, BSc (Xian), PhD (London)
Geographical Information Systems (GIS), remote sensing, web design, natural hazards, China
Xingmin teaches on the Tools for development and environment and GIS and remote sensing modules.
Jay Mistry, BSc, PhD (Lond) Lecturer
Degree Programme Director and Chair of Sub-Board of Examiners.
Natural resource management, biodiversity conservation, tropical savannas, fire ecology and management, indigenous resource management, participatory geographies; Brazil, Guyana
Jay teaches on the introductory Development and environment, Grassroots development and Participatory environmental monitoring modules.
David Simon, BA (Cape Town), BA (Reading), DPhil (Oxon), Professor of Development Geography, Director of CEDAR.
Development theory and policy, political economy of Third World urbanisation and urban growth, especially sub-Saharan Africa; survival strategies of the poor; environmental problems and sustainability; regional integration and national development; transport; southern Africa, Ghana, Kenya, SE Asia
David teaches on the introductory Development and environment and Livelihoods and sustainability modules.
Donald Thompson, BSc (Lond), Departmental Computer Analyst
Fluvial and hillslope processes in arid and semi-arid environments; related problems of agriculture and water supply in developing countries
Don teaches on the Participatory environmental monitoring and Water and development modules.
Varyl Thorndycraft BSc (Sheffield), MSc (Liverpool), PhD (Exeter)
Flood risk estimation; flood response to global warming; water resource sustainability in drylands
Varyl teaches on the Water ad development module.
Tim Unwin, MA (Cantab), PhD (Dunelm), Professor of Geography.
ICT4D; Rural Development; Critical Theory
Tim teaches on the Tools for development and environment module. He also teaches the Development and environment research training.
Katie Willis, BA (Oxon), MPhil (Oxon), DPhil (Oxon), Senior Lecturer.
Gender and development; gender and migration; gender identities; skilled migration; transnationalism; structural adjustment policies, especially health; Latin America, East Asia, California.
Katie teaches on the Participatory methods and Hazards and vulnerability modules.
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