Projects

The importance of early childhood development (ECD) for both individual and societal economic and humanitarian growth is increasingly appreciated and efforts by governments and multilateral agencies to...

Interest in the study of the traumatic repercussions of violent histories on descendants of victims and survivors has proliferated in the sub-field of memory and trauma studies, with earlier research in...

The fate of every organism is death—or so it seems. Death can be the result of external causes like accident, predation, or disease. But there are also emdogenous, heritable, non-incidental causes of...

My project focuses on water and sanitation through the technologies that provide them, as a highly specific material index for abstract sensibilities about what constitutes a “proper” and dignified...

The main objective of this project is the finalization of a monograph analysing the linkages between the anthropocene, climate change and International Relations. Since climate scientists launched the...

Alkebulan: The Return of the Leopard is set in the formative phases of the African Federation made up of the continent and its diasporas – Caribbean Africa, European Africa, N. American Africa, Middle...

Ending poverty has been the world’s priority for decades. It is multi-facetted and driven by its twin partner, inequality. It impacts all spheres of human wellbeing and nature. Poor people are proportionally...

To secure access to food for the growing world population, significant increases in agricultural productivity are needed. One avenue to address this challenge is a more efficient use of agrochemicals....

Evolutionary ecology theory applies principles of biological evolution to explain variation in how living creatures appear and behave. For example, how many sons versus daughter should a mother produce?...

This project analyzes the presence and impacts of West African migrants in urban spaces in North Africa and Southern Europe: how the sociopolitical contexts they enter shape their lives and livelihoods...

Water is critical for human existence and all life as we know it. This project investigates how pressures of climate change and human land- and water-use developments combine to impact freshwater flow,...

Whilst most decolonial scholars have made important contributions on the nature of coloniality as an intellectual problem and the need to decolonise, the practical deployment of decolonial programme is...