The Team

This site and the concept of the ODA principles was created by (alphabetical order):

• Chris Darby is a research coordinator at the Norwich Institute for Sustainable Development. He fosters the new transdisciplinary collaborations that are being created within the institute. His role also includes governance and stakeholder engagement. In parallel, Chris is Head of Transdisciplinary Research Impact at the John Innes Centre.
• Roger Few's research centres on the connections between environmental change, risk and human wellbeing, mainly in lower-income settings. He places particular focus on vulnerability and adaptation, especially on how households, communities and institutions respond to risks and impacts from climatic and other environmental hazards, and the factors that influence, promote and constrain their responses. Much of this work lies at the confluence between research in disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation, with linkages to themes of livelihoods/wellbeing, environmental health, water security and social justice. His concern for issues of justice, equality and sustainability has led to an increasing emphasis in recent research on the long-term processes of recovery from extreme events.
• Mark Tebboth is an interdisciplinary social scientist whose research addresses issues related to how people and populations respond to and adapt to risks arising primarily from global environmental change. Within this broad area of research, he has have particular interests in human migration / mobility and forced displacement, vulnerability, resilience and adaptation, and disaster risk reduction and risks linked to a changing global climate. He has worked in many countries around the world but currently focuses on the Greater Horn of Africa, South Asia and Latin America.
• Dr Matt Heaton. Matt is a John Innes Foundation Fellow in Sustainable Food Security at the Norwich Institute for Sustainable Development and a Research Associate for the UK-CGIAR Centre. He is based in the School of Global Development at the University of East Anglia and is a Visiting worker at the John Innes Centre.
• Catlin Scott is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Global Development (DEV) at the University of East Anglia. She has also taught at the University of Cambridge as a Visiting Lecturer in anthropology, the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) and Goldsmiths College in London. Her teaching has centred on development management topics such as policy management, project design and management and evaluation methods.

Contact

We would love to hear from you. Please reach out to m.heaton@uea.ac.uk if you have any questions about this site, the ODA principles or how to get involved.