School of Earth, Energy and Environmental Sciences
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Josheena Naggea
Ph.D. Student in Environment and Resources
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsJosheena is a doctoral candidate supporting marine governance in small island states in the Western Indian Ocean. Her community-based research is situated at the nexus of political ecology and marine policy and focuses on adaptive management of marine protected areas, and the valorization of natural and cultural heritage in ocean governance. She has most recently worked on assessing the social impacts of COVID-19 and the 2020 Wakashio oil spill disaster on coastal communities in Mauritius.
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Fridah Nyakundi
Ph.D. Student in Environment and Resources
BioFridah Nyakundi is an E-IPER PhD student whose broad research interests include productive water use, intensification of smallholder farms, land-use change and food security in Sub-Saharan Africa. Fridah graduated with a bachelor in economics and statistics (2014) and a masters of arts in economics (2016), both from the University of Nairobi. Her thesis focused on sustainably optimizing extractive forests in Kenya by calculating the optimal rotation period of three tree species that are the most harvested in Kenya.
Before her PhD program, Fridah worked as a Senior Research Associate with the International Center For Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) within the Africa region.
