Professor Dina Abbott

Faculty: Education, Health and Sciences

School: School of Science

Subject Area: Geography

Teaching on under- and post-graduate degree programme related to Development Studies and Social Geography. Particular interests are environmental concerns, food security, water management and project mangement in economically developing and transitional countries. Specialist PhD supervision focus is on poverty, especially gendered poverty in rural and urban areas of the developing world.

Research interests

Overlapping research interests/themes include:

1. Gendered, poverty and livelihoods in developing countries, including urban slums India; agriculture production small-scale women farmers the Gambia, Uganda.
2. Modification of food crops.
3. Methodological, philosophical and ethical implications of teaching and research into gendered poverty in developing countries.
4. Philosophies of geographical fieldwork.
5. Lived experience of climate change. Rainwater harvesting and indigenous knowledge.

Membership of professional bodies and advisory committees

• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
• Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society
• Member of Development Studies Association
• Editorial Board Member online African Journal of Environmental Science and Technology
• Academic Consultant for voluntary development organisation, Village Aid, Bakewell

Postgraduate qualifications

• PhD, The Open University

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