Household Water Insecurity Experiences (HWISE) - Research Coordination Network (RCN)
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Dr. Asher Rosinger is the Ann Atherton Hertzler Early Career Professor at Pennsylvania State University. He founded and directs the Water, Health, and Nutrition Laboratory (https://hhd.psu.edu/bbh/research/research-labs/water-health-and-nutrition-lab) alongside undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate researchers to understand cross-cultural variation in how humans meet…
Paula Skye Tallman is a Research Associate at The Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago and will join the Anthropology Department at Loyola University in Chicago this Fall. As a graduate student at Northwestern University, she conducted research on vulnerability and…
On March 31st, HWISE-RCN member Michelle Kooy, with Ph.D. fellow Bosman Batubara and Nila Ardhianie from the Amtra Institute, presented “Re-enchanting more-than-urban water metabolism through degrowth: contestation and experimentation in Semarang, Indonesia.” This presentation was a part of the King's…
Thanti Octavianti is a research fellow in cities, water and resilience at the University of the West of England, Bristol. She completed her PhD in the School of Geography and the Environment at Oxford University in 2019. She holds MSc in…
Read More March 2021 HWISE Scholar Highlight: Thanti Octavianti
Our second HWISE NOW Virtual Coffee hour will be on the 31st of March at 11 AM CST! This Virtual Coffee Hour will specifically focus on household water insecurity in schools and healthcare facilities. To register, please go to our Eventbrite page…
Dr. Melissa Beresford, Dr. Wendy Jepson, Dr. Greg Pierce, and Dr. Amanda Fencl all worked to put together a proposal for the California State University’s CALSPEAKS Public Opinion Survey (see full title and author details below). The CALSPEAKS survey regularly…
Greg Pierce is the Associate Director of the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation and directs the Center’s Water and Environmental Equity programs. He is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Urban Planning and affiliated faculty with the UCLA…
Read More HWISE February Scholar of the Month: Dr Gregory Pierce
We are excited to announce the start of the new HWISE-RCN Virtual Coffee Break series, HWISE NOW. HWISE NOW will consist of a series of moderated informal conversation around topics related to water insecurity. The dates of these conversations are…
Podcast Description:As the drinking water crisis unfolded in Flint, it became clear that removing all of the lead pipes to people’s homes would be a daunting challenge. Among the reasons - a lack of records on locations, competing approaches for…
Dr. Lucero Radonic is an assistant professor at Michigan State University where she have a joint appointment in the Department of Anthropology and the Environmental Science and Policy Program. Dr. Radonic's research examines water governance at the intersection of climate change and…
Read More HWISE-RCN December Scholar of the Month: Dr Lucero Radonic
