

Climate-Compatible Development Partnerships: Evaluating New Governance Systems for Valuing Ecosystem Services, Carbon Storage and Poverty Alleviation Benefits(ESRC White Rose Doctoral Training Centre) (2011-2014).Climate Compatible Development Partnerships in Sub-Saharan Africa(World Universities Network Fund for International Research Collaborations) (2011-2014).This project built on the following past projects: The research gained funding from the Climate Change Centre for Economics and Policy, the University of Leeds and World Universities Network. Climate Compatible Development in East and Southern Africa(2013-2016) Lead investigator of a project that investigated Climate Compatible Development and associated policy rhetoric in Tanzania.Research Collaboration Award ‘ Non-economic Loss and Damage associated with Climate Change’ University of Western Australia and World Universities Network (2016-2017) Co-I.Global Climate Change Alliance+-Tanzania project ‘Integrated Approaches for Climate Change Adaptation’ EuropeAid (2016-2019) Research Associate.Conservation Governance for Social and Environmental Benefits (2016-2020), ESRC White Rose Doctoral Training Centre, Network Award - funding for 3 PhD studentships.GCRF-AFRICAP Programme - Building the Evidence Base for Climate Smart Agri-Food Systems(2017-2021) GCRF BBSRC Co-I, Tanzania Country lead.GCRF-AFRISYS Project - What to plant, when and where? - designing integrated forest-agricultural landscapes to enhance multiple livelihood benefits to and from agriculture (2019-2021) GCRF BBSRC Co-I.

Susannah has a particular interest in East and Southern Africa, particularly Tanzania, where she has worked for over 18 years. Climate compatible development intervention and policy.Climate change adaptation and development.The impact on human well-being and livelihoods of differing modes of conservation and ecosystem services governance and management, and climate change.The dynamics, resilience and vulnerability of social-ecological systems, landscapes, and livelihoods.Susannah and her research team have particular regional expertise in Africa and work together in participatory ways with communities and a wide range of academic and non-academic partners to develop better understanding of: Her main interest lies in the theoretical and empirical intersections of political ecology, complex systems science and environmental justice. Susannah’s research focuses broadly on human-environment interactions and more specifically on rural livelihoods, environmental change, marginalisation and natural resource governance. Susannah is an interdisciplinary research scientist whose research draws on multiple disciplines. Environment & Development Research Group Leader.Susannah is a member of the Development Studies Association and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. Susannah has also worked for the Society for Environmental Exploration (a collaboration between Frontier UK and the University of Dar es Salaam) in Tanzania, Forest Research (UK Forestry Commission) and UNICEF. in Environmental Technology from Imperial College London and a BSc.(Hons.) in Tropical Environmental Science from the University of Aberdeen. Susannah has a PhD from the Department of Geography at the University of Oxford, an MSc. Susannah is currently a member of the School of Earth & Environment Steering Committee and a member of the ESRC Climate Change Centre for Economics and Policy, Priestley International Centre for Climate and Centre for Global Development at the Univerity. Over the past 10 years Susannah has played a key role in shaping the Masters degrees in the Sustainability Research Institute, and cross-faculty research initiatives such as the Centre for Global Development. Susannah is an Associate Professor in Environment and Development based in the Sustainability Research Institute of the School of Earth and Environment at the University of Leeds.
