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…
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HWISE Member, Dr. Ben Pauli, featured in Waterloop Podcast: Getting Flint’s Lead Pipes Out of the Ground
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…
HWISE-RCN December Scholar of the Month: Dr Lucero Radonic
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…
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HWISE Members Awarded the Society for Anthropological Sciences 2020 Carol R. Ember Book Prize
We would like to officially congratulate HWISE members Dr. Alexandra Brewis and Dr. Amber Wutich, whose book Lazy, Crazy, and Disgusting: Stigma and the Undoing of Global Health was awarded the Society for Anthropological Sciences 2020 Carol R. Ember Book Prize earlier this…
HWISE-RCN Member Dr Sera Young Featured on BBC Health Check
This month Dr. Sera Young was interviewed on water fetching injuries on BBC's Health Check. Her discussion of the topic can be found at around the 22:30 minute mark, here. If you would like to read more on this work being…
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Development of the HWISE-RCN Early Career Collaborative (ECC)
At the end of the Spring 2020 semester, HWISE-RCN announced the development of the Early Career Collaborative, ECC, to foster mentorship and meet the needs of the research community's more junior scholars. Since the initial meeting with Dr. Alexandra Brewis,…
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November Scholar of the Month: Dr. Sarah Smiley
Sarah Smiley is a Professor of Geography at Kent State University’s Salem Campus. She uses multiple qualitative methods, and fieldwork is central to all of her research. Her research interests include water access in Sub-Saharan African cities, and she has…
Webinar – Experiências da Insegurança Hídrica Domiciliar no Brasil
Our first webinar “Experiências da Insegurança Hídrica Domiciliar no Brasil” was held on August 27, 2020 for Brazilian researchers. The webinar was attended by 38 professionals and researchers from different institutions, including Federal University of ABC, University of São Paulo,…
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HWISE-RCN September Scholar of the Month: Sameer Shah
Sameer Shah is a Ph.D. candidate at the Institute for Resources, Environment & Sustainability at the University of British Columbia. Trained broadly as a political-ecologist with a strong interest in coupled qualitative and quantitative methodology and analysis, his research intersects…
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HWISE-RCN August Scholar of the Month: Dr. Paula Tomaz
Paula Tomaz, who earned a Ph.D. in Geography (2019) from the Federal University of Ceara (Fortaleza, Brazil), wrote her dissertation on household water insecurity in a small town in the semiarid region of Northeast Brazil during drought. Her work, which included…
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