Household Water Insecurity Experiences (HWISE) - Research Coordination Network (RCN)
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Yanna Lambrinidou is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Science, Technology, and Society (STS) at Virginia Tech and cofounder of the Campaign for Lead Free Water. Focusing on the problem of lead in US drinking water, she works at the intersection of…
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Tiffani Ashley Bell, the Founder & Executive Director of The Human Utility, and Helen G. a recipient of their assistance in Detroit. The Human Utility is a not-for-profit organization that has helped over 3,000 people in Michigan and Maryland avoid the…
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Noura Wahby is an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Geography at the University of Cambridge. Her doctoral research at the Cambridge Centre of Development Studies focused on the political economy of urban development and urban waterscapes in Cairo, Egypt. Her…
Anais Roque Antonetty is this month's HWISE Scholar Highlight. Anais Roque Antonetty is a Ph.D. student in Environmental Social Sciences in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University. Her broad research interests include food, energy, and water insecurity as…
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In early March, just before the coronavirus lockdown, 18 scholars met at the University of Miami for a two-day workshop titled Connecting the Dots between Climate Change, Water Insecurity, and Migration. The workshop explored the pathways by which household water insecurity—exacerbated by climate…
The Young Research Group in 2017. We are excited to feature the amazing work of one of HWISE-RCN’s executive committee members, Dr. Sera Young, for our inaugural “Mentorship Highlight.” With this new feature, we hope to shine a light on…
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Dr. Edward (Jed) Stevenson was March's HWISE Scholar Highlight. Jed Stevenson is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Durham University. As a postdoc at Emory University, he carried out research on water-related stress in rural Ethiopia. This mixed-methods study showed that water…
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This year the American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting will be in Washington D.C. (April 3-7 2019), and we are planning a day of events to officially launch and celebrate the HWISE RCN community of scholars. We are seeking empirical…
Members of the HWISE executive committee and steering committee convened for two days at the Royal Geographical Society in London (14-15 September 2018) to meet with representatives from British water charities (WaterAid, Water Witness, Oxfam), development organizations (IMANNA, UNESCO-Paris), development…
The National Science Foundation, Geography and Spatial Sciences Program, recently awarded $500,000 to support the Household Water Insecurity Experiences (HWISE) Research Coordination Network to operate at the strategic intersection of social science discovery, policy, and practice to address the complex dynamics of…