Household Water Insecurity Experiences (HWISE) - Research Coordination Network (RCN)
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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
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…
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…
Read More HWISE-RCN Member Dr Sera Young Featured on BBC Health Check
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,…
Read More Development of the HWISE-RCN Early Career Collaborative (ECC)
