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.
• Dr Caitlin Scott, Associate Professor in Global Development at University of East Anglia. An anthropologist by training with extensive experience in the aid sector, Dr Scott’s work focusses on how aid and development are managed. She is the author of The Project in International Development | Theory and Practice, and several chapters and papers on aspects of management and ethics including decolonisation and audit processes. Dr Scott convenes the MSc in Global Development Management at the University of East Anglia, and teaches across a range of courses at under and post graduate level as well as supervising doctoral students.

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.