Randi Kaarhus, PhD Head of Research Phone: +47 64 96 53 27 (randi.kaarhus*at*umb.no) Professional interests: science and politics, local knowledge, biodiversity, democracy and accountability, participatory approaches, discourse analysis. > Curriculum vitae > Publications
Esben Leifsen, Ph.D. Associate Professor Phone: +47 64 96 53 04 (esben.leifsen*at*umb.no) Professional interests: indigenous rights and natural resource extraction, indigenous economy and globalization, human rights based development and accountability, marginalization/poverty and reproductive governance, transnational migration, child welfare and child rights, ethno politics and multiculturalism, multi-sited fieldwork methodology. > Curriculum vitae > Publications at UMB
Anne Kiøsterud Personnel and Planning Manager Phone: +47 64 96 53 10 (anne.kiosterud*at*umb.no)
Jens B. Aune, Dr. Scient. Professor Phone: +47 64 96 53 23 (jens.aune*at*umb.no) Professional interests: agro-ecology, Integrated Plant Nutrition Management, carbon sequestration and rural development, bio-economical modeling and linkages agricultural development and environment. > Curriculum vitae > Publications
Tor A. Benjaminsen, Ph.D. Professor Phone: +47 64 96 55 16 (t.a.benjaminsen*at*umb.no) Professional interests: Drylands, land tenure, environmental narratives, political ecology, environmental history. > Curriculum vitae > Publications
Trygve Berg, Dr. Scient. Associate Professor Phone: +47 64 96 53 18 (trygve.berg*at*umb.no) Professional interests: genetic resources, sustainable production systems. > Curriculum vitae > Publications
Cassandra Bergstrøm, Ph.D. Associate Professor Phone: +47 64 96 55 18 (cassandra.bergstrom*at*umb.no) Professional interests: health and development, environmental health, rights and obligations, access, property issues, animate property, rule regimes, indigenous studies, inter-disciplinarity. > Curriculum vitae > Publications
Ian Bryceson, Ph.D. Professor Phone: +47 64 96 55 07 (ian.bryceson*at*umb.no) Professional interests: coastal and marine ecology, aquaculture, aquatic resource management, integrated coastal zone management. > Curriculum vitae > Publications
Benjamin de Carvalho, Ph.D. Aman II (20%) Phones: (+47)22 99 41 27; mob (+47)414 29 826 (bdc[at]nupi.no) > Curriculum vitae
Bill Derman Professor emeritus (retired but active on consultancy basis) Phone: +47 64 96 53 09; Cell: 90217113 (bill.derman*at*umb.no) Professional interests: agrarian change, land and water reform, human rights, Southern and West Africa, resettlement. > Curriculum vitae > Publications
Lars Olav Eik Professor Phone: +47 64 96 51 82 (lars.eik*at*umb.no) Professional interests: small ruminant nutrition and production systems both in temperate and tropical countries. > Curriculum vitae > Publications
Siri Eriksen, Ph.D. Associate Professor Phone: +47 64 96 52 00 (siri.eriksen*at*umb.no) Professional interests: Social vulnerability to environmental change, in particular climatic variability and extremes such as droughts and floods. > Curriculum vitae > Publications at UMB / UiO
Kjell Esser, Ph.D. Associate Professor Phone: +47 64 96 53 19 (kjell.esser*at*umb.no) Professional interests: environmental sciences, soil and water in ecosystems, soil productivity and conservation, watershed management, irrigation, land degradation and rehabilitation, terrestrial pollution, environmental impact assessment. > Curriculum vitae > Publications Odd-Helge Fjeldstad Dr. Oecon., Professor (10%) Phone: +47 40450010 (Odd.Fjeldstad*at*cmi.no) Keywords: Corruption, public finance management, tax reforms, budgetary processes, local government reform, fiscal decentralisation, project evaluation Geographic keywords: Sub-Saharan Africa , The Middle East and Northern Africa , Africa: Angola, Namibia, Tanzania, Uganda, South Africa, Zambia. Middle East: Palestine > Curriculum vitae > Publications at UMB
Stig Jarle Hansen, Ph.D. Associate Professor Phone: +47 64 96 52 00 (stig.hansen*at*umb.no) Professional interests: > Curriculum vitae > Publications at UMB
Ruth Haug, Ph.D. Professor Phone: +47 64 96 53 36 (ruth.haug*at*umb.no) Professional interests: rural development studies with focus on agriculture, food- and livelihood security; hunger, peace and violent conflicts, forced migration, sustainable use and management of natural resources; agricultural extension, participation and community development . > Curriculum vitae > Publications
Darley Jose Kjosavik, Ph.D. Associate Professor Phone: +47 64 96 55 12 (darley.kjosavik*at*umb.no) Professional interests: Political economy of development with special reference to marginalised classes and social groups, conflict and livelihoods, gender & development, climate change adaptation and mitigation. > Curriculum vitae > Publications
Kassim Kulindwa, PhD Associate Professor Phone: +47 64 96 53 27 (kassim.kulindwa*at*umb.no) Professional interests: Empirical analyses of issues concerning the environment and natural resources including; management and utilisation of water, energy, wetlands, fisheries, and wildlife. Others are climate change mitigation and adaptation, valuation of environmental goods and services, Non Timber Forest Products, livelihoods and poverty, Payments for Environmental Services, cost benefit analysis and EIA, all in the context of sustainable development. > Curriculum vitae > Publications
Thor S. Larsen, Dr. Philos. Researcher (retired butactive onconsultancy basis) Phone: +47 64 96 53 13 (office); +47 90 92 92 82 (mobile) (thor.s.larsen*at*umb.no) Professional interests: ecological research, wildlife population dynamics and management, management of protected areas and buffer zones, community participation in development, environmental impact assessment. > Curriculum vitae > Publications
John Andrew McNeish, PhD Associate Professor Phone: +47 64 96 53 41 (john.mcneish*at*umb.no) Professional interests: Regions/Countries of Interest: Latin America, Bolivia, Guatemala Professional Interests: Political Anthropology, Indigenous Rights and Politics, Political Participation, Energy and Natural Resource Politics, Legal Pluralism, Gender Relations, Development Theory, Violence, Poverty and Social Marginalization > Curriculum vitae > Publications at UMB
Lyla Mehta, Ph.D. Professor II (20%) Phone: +47 64 96 53 03; (lyla.mehta*at*umb.no and L.Mehta*at*ids.ac.uk ) > Curriculum vitae Iver Neumann, PhD Prof II (20%) Telephones: +(047) 22 99 40 00 or 22 99 41 16 (iverb.neumann[at]nupi.no) > Curriculum vitae
Knut Nustad, PhD. Associate Professor (20%) Phone: +47 64 96 53 33 (knut.nustad*at*umb.no) Professional interests: political anthropology, development discourses, poverty discourses, epistemology of policy, formal/informal organisation. > Curriculum vitae > Publications
Ingrid Nyborg, PhD. Associate Professor Phone: +47 64 96 53 37 (ingrid.nyborg*at*umb.no) Professional interests: gender, resource management, food and livelihood security, social networks, participation, mountain communities. > Curriculum vitae > Publications
Gufu Oba, Dr. Philos. Professor (on sabbatical until late autumn 2012) Phone: +47 64 96 55 09 (gufu.oba*at*umb.no) Professional interests: range management, ecosystem, pastoralism and pastoral development, climate change and the rangelands, pastoral production, droughts, range ecology, environmental history, indigenous knowledge of pastoral peoples, local communities participation in environmental conventions. > Curriculum vitae > Publications
Nadarajah Shanmugaratnam, Ph.D. Professor emeritus (retired butactive onconsultancy basis) Phone: +47 64 96 55 08 (n.shanmugaratnam*at*umb.no) Professional interests: Political Economy and Institutional Economics; Policy and institutional aspects of rural development, Reconstruction of war-affected societies, Natural resource management. > Curriculum vitae > Publications > Selected articles and lectures
Bishal K. Sitaula, Ph.D. Professor Phone: +47 64 96 53 25 (bishal.sitaula*at*umb.no) Professional interests: global change, greenhouse gases, carbon sequestration, land degradation, ecosystem restoration, soil erosion, watershed management, soil quality, water quality, soil pollution. > Curriculum vitae > Publications
Espen Sjaastad, Dr. Scient. Professor Phone: +47 64 96 52 00 Professional interests: > Curriculum vitae > Publications
Clive L. Spash, Ph.D. Professor II (20%) Phone: 64 96 52 03 (clive.spash*at*umb.no) Professional interests: Public policy with specific emphasis on environmental problems. Theoretical work on the science-policy interface, political economy, governance, institutions, human motivation, value and ethics. Interdisciplinarity with work covering interactions between economics, applied philosophy, social psychology and political science. Applications in the areas of biodiversity, climate change, water management and air pollution. For more information look here... > Curriculum vitae; clivespash.org > Publications
Arild Vatn, Ph.D. Professor Phone: +47 64 96 57 10 (arild.vatn*at*umb.no) Professional interests: Theoretical work in institutional and ecological economics. Empirical areas of interest: Environmental governance, policies related to global warming and biodiversity protection, pollution control, land management, conflict management and multifunctional agriculture. > Curriculum vitae > UMB Competence Catalogue > Publications
Pål Vedeld, Ph.D. Professor Phone: +47 64 96 53 07 (pal.vedeld*at*umb.no) Professional interests: Environmental governance, politics, planning and management, legitimacy of governance and participation, environmental resources and local livelihoods and dependence; protected areas policies and politics, agricultural, resource and development economics: peasant household economics; production, poverty and environmental issues, theories in and for interdisciplinarity website, http://www.engopa.no/. > Curriculum vitae > Publications
Mensur Vegara, Ph.D. Associate Professor Phone: +47 64 96 53 16 (mensur.vegara*at*umb.no) Mobile phone: +47 906 38 884 Professional interests: Animal breeding, animal production, farming systems; Programme and project co-ordination and management; Institutional cooperation; Agricultural engineering and consulting. > Curriculum vitae > Publications
William Warner, Ph.D. Assistant Professor - Writing Centre (Universitetslektor) Phone: +47 64 96 55 15 (william.warner*at*umb.no) Professional interests: Forest resources and ecological engineering. > Curriculum vitae > Publications
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Staff on extended leave:
- Gunnvor Berge (until August 2012). Associate Professor
- Fred Håkon Johnsen (until 31 Dec 2014). Professor > Curriculum vitae
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Andrei Florin Marin, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow Phone: +47 64 96 53 20 (andrei.marin*at*umb.no ) Professional interests: climate change vulnerability and adaptation in socio-ecological systems; pastoralism; multiple stressors; globalization; development studies; access and rights to resources. > Curriculum vitae > Publications at UMB > Publications at UiB
Synne Movik, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow Phone: +47 64 96 53 05; (synne.movik*at*umb.no) Professional interests: Development theory, political economy, natural resource governance, property rights regimes, water policy and legislation, water and sanitation issues. > Curriculum vitae > Publications at UMB
Charlotte Nakakaawa, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow Phone: +47 64 96 53 34 > Curriculum vitae
Simon Pahle, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow Phone: +47 64 96 55 10; (simon.pahle@umb.no) Professional interests: Labour rights and trade unions in the global political econony; wage workers and labour relations in agriculture; multilateral regimes (esp. ILO; WTO; IFIs); corporate social responsibility; comparative political development; aid Geographic keywords: Brazil; South Africa.
Poul Wisborg, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow (at CAPRi/IFPRI in Washington D.C. until 1 July 2012) > Curriculum vitae
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Hans Nicolai Adam (Germany) Research Fellow - Development Studies Phone: +47 64 96 55 13 (hans.adam*at*umb.no) Research topic: Public Works Programmes: Prospects for climate change mitigation adaptation in combination with sustainable development. A case study of the MGNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act). Supervisor(s): Darley Kjosavik and N. Shanmugaratnam
Marianne Aasen (Norway) Research Fellow - Development Studies Phone: 64 96 52 00 (marianne.aasen*at*umb.no) Research topic: Can a combination of policy instruments increase the effectiveness and public acceptability of environmental policies? Supervisor(s): Arild Vatn, Pål Vedeld and Hege Westskog (Cicero)
Grete Benjaminsen (Norway) Research Fellow - Development Studies Phone: +47 64 96 55 13 (grete.benjaminsen*at*umb.no) Research topic: Implementing REDD in Zanzibari forests: An investigation of process, actors and discourses Supervisor(s): Randi Kaarhus and John Andrew Mcneish
Kaja Borchgrevink (Norway) Research Fellow - Development Studies Research topic: Private Islamic Charity and Approaches to Poverty Reduction among Pakistani Muslims: Religion, Gender and Development Supervisor: Ingrid Nyborg
Shai A. Divon (Norway) Research Fellow - Development Studies Phone: +47 64 96 55 13 (shai.divon*at*umb.no) Research topic: Development and National security: post 9/11 process and development politics of the United States in Mali Supervisor(s): Bill Derman, Cassandra Bergstrøm and Stig J. Hansen,
Noor Elahi (Pakistan) Research Fellow - Development Studies Phone: +47 64 55 13 Research topic: The social and cultural roles of gender in rural livelihood and development. A study of North West Pakistan Supervisor: Ingrid Nyborg Getachew Sime Feyissa (Ethiopia) Research Fellow - Development Studies Phone: +47 64 96 55 13 (getachew.feyissa*at*umb.no) Research topic: Intensification of cereal crop productin through consevation tillage, microdosing and seed priming, central rift valley region of Ethiopia: Agronomic and socioeconomic return assessments. Supervisor(s): Jens Aune, Kassim Kulindwa and Hussien Mohammed
Mohamed Gaas (Somalia) Research Fellow - Development Studies Phone: 64 96 52 00 (mohamed.gaas*at*umb.no) Reseach topic: The role and the impact of Somali Diaspora in conflicts, peace and state buildings, and reconstructing of Somalia. Supervisor: Stig Jarle Hansen
Lydia Gaspare (Tanzania) Research Fellow - Development Studies Phone: 64 96 52 00 (lydia.gaspare*at*umb.no) Research topic: The effects of increased fishing pressure on the ecological resilience of targeted groupers (Serranidae) and analysis of impacts on livelihoods in fishing communities of Mafia Island, Tanzania. Supervisor(s): Ian Bryceson and Dr. Albogast Kamukuru (Univ. of Dar es Salaam)
Lars Kåre Grimsby (Norway) Research Fellow - Development Studies Phone: 64 96 53 39 (lars.grimsby*at*umb.no) Research topic: Biofuels and acces to energy in rural livelihoods in East Africa. Supervisor(s): Jens Aune and Fred Håkon Johnsen
Marit Heller (Norway) Research Fellow - Development Studies Phone: 64 96 53 29 (marit.heller*at*umb.no) Research topic: Preliminary title: Environmental policy and human action Supervisor(s): Arild Vatn, Randi Kaarhus and Frode Alfsnes
Cecilie von Hirsch (Norway) Research Fellow - Development Studies Research topic: Participation, sovereignties and the politics of environmental governance: A study of efforts to protect forests and the implementation of UN-REDD in Bolivia Supervisor: John McNeish and Pål Vedeld
Camilla Houeland (Norway) Research Fellow - Development Studies Research topic: Nigerian Trade Union’s Role in the Niger Delta Conflict Supervisor: John McNeish Ingvild Jacobsen (Norway) Research Fellow - Development Studies Phone: +47 64 96 55 13 (ingvild.jacobsen*at*umb.no) Research topic: Womens' security in a post-conflict context Supervisor(s): Ingrid Nyborg and Shaheen Sardar Ali
Marianne Karlsson (Sweden) Research Fellow - Development Studies Phone: +47 64 96 52 00 / 22 85 87 50 (marianne.karlsson*at*umb.no) Research topic: The effects of climatic and other forces of change on livelihoods in coastal communities of Belize, Central America. Supervisor(s): Ian Bryceson and Nadarajah Shanmugaratnam (Noragric), Ilan Kelman ( CICERO)
Abda Khalid (Pakistan) Research Fellow - Development Studies Phone: +47 64 96 55 13 Research topic: Exploring Gender-Based Insecurities in Relation to Livelihoods and Changing Class Relations in Post-Militancy, Post-Flood Swat Supervisor: Ingrid Nyborg
Kashif Saeed Khan (Pakistan) Research Fellow - Development Studies Phone: +47 64 96 52 00 (kashif.khan*at*umb.no ) Research topic: Development discourses, security and livelihood realities in Pakistan’s North Western territories. Supervisor(s): Ingrid Nyborg, N. Shanmugaratnam and Darley Kjosavik
Sayuni Mariki (Tanzania) Research Fellow - Development Studies Phone: +47 64 96 53 43 (sayuni.mariki*at*umb.no) Research topic: Participatory aspects of Enduimet Wildlife Management Area and Kilimanjaro National Park in villages on the western slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania Supervisor(s): Tor Arve Benjaminsen and Hanne Svarstad (NINA) Jason Miklian(USA) Research Fellow - Development Studies Phone: +47 64 96 52 00 / 22 54 77 74 (jason.miklian*at*umb.no) Research topic: Green Mining, Displacement and the Maoist conflict in India Supervisor(s): Stig Jarle Hansen
Victoria Moshy (Tanzania) Research Fellow - Development Studies Phone: 64 96 52 00 (victoria.moshy*at*umb.no) Research topic: Socio-ecological Changes in the Livelihoods of Fishing Communities in the Current Epoch of Globalisation: A Case of Mafia Island, Tanzania. Supervisor(s): Ian Bryceson, Knut Nustad and Rose Mwaipopo (Univ. of Dar es Salaam)
Joseph Perfect Mrema (Tanzania) Research Fellow - Development Studies Phone: 64 96 52 00 (joseph.mrema*at*umb.no) Research topic: Opportunities and challenges of linking forest conservation and livelihoods in community based forest management: The case of Duru- Haitemba Forest Reserve. Supervisor(s): Tor Arve Benjaminsen and Espen Sjaastad
Devota Mwaseba (Tanzania) Research Fellow - Development Studies Research topic: Outcomes of Milk-Based Interventions: Improvements in Health and Nutritional Status of Under-five Children in Rural Tanzania? Supervisor: Randi Kaarhus and Lars Olav Eik
Mary Gorett Nantongo (Uganda) Research Fellow - Development Studies Phone: 64 96 52 00 (XX*at*umb.no) Research topic: Reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation; Impacts on rural populations in Uganda Supervisor(s): Arild Vatn Amos Robert Ngwira (Malawi) Research Fellow - Development Studies Phone: 64 96 53 43 (robert.ngwira*at*umb.no) Research topic: Evaluation of options to adapt the principles of Conservation Agriculture to the conditions of smallholder farmers in Malawi. Supervisor(s): Jens Aune, Fred H. Johnsen and Bishal Sitaula
Ansha Yesufe Nure (Ethiopia) Research Fellow - Development Studies Phone: 64 96 52 00 Research Topic: Household Food Security in Southern Rift Valley of Ethiopia: A Gendered Analysis Supervisor(s): Darley Kjosavik
Progress Hanzwida Nyanga (Zambia) Research Fellow - Development Studies Phone: 64 96 52 00 (progress.nyanga*at*umb.no) Research topic: Reversing household food insecurity through conservation agriculture: Socio-economic impact of conservation farming practices among small scale farmers in Zambia. Supervisor(s): Fred H. Johnsen and Jens Aune
RaymondAchu Samndong Research Fellow - Development Studies Phone: +47 64 96 52 00 (raymond*at*samndong; rayasboy*at*yahoo.com) Research topic: Governing REDD+: The potential for reduced forest carbon emission, biodiversity protection and enhanced rural livelihoods in the Congo Basin Forest. Supervisor(s): Arild Vatn
Frode Sundnes (Norway) Research Fellow - Development Studies Phone: +47 64 96 61 50 (frode.sundnes*at*umb.no) Research topic: Actors & Discourses: Conflicting Claims to the Dukuduku Forest,Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa. Supervisor(s): Knut Nustad, Tor Arve Benjaminsen and Espen Sjaastad
Kjersti Thorkildsen(Norway) Research Fellow - Development Studies Phone: +47 64 96 52 00 (kjersti.thorkildsen*at*umb.no) Research topic: Between conservation and development: Quilombola communities’ struggle over resources in the Ribeira Valley, Brazil. Supervisor(s): Randi Kaarhus and Ian Bryceson
David Mwesigye Tumusiime (Uganda) Research Fellow - Development Studies Phone: +47 64 96 52 00; mob. 463 56 284 (mwesigye.tumusiime*at*umb.no) Research topic: The political ecology of conservation of the mountain Gorilla at Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda. Supervisor(s): Tor Arve Benjaminsen, Espen Sjaastad, Pål Vedeld and Hanne Svarstad (NINA)
Bridget Bwalya Umar (Zambia) Research Fellow - Development Studies Phone: 64 96 53 43 (bridget.bwalya*at*umb.no) Research topic: From Maize Monocropping to Conservation Agriculture: A Multi-perspective Analysis of Smallholder Conservation Agriculture in Southern, Central and Eastern Zambia. Supervisor(s): Jens B. Aune and Fred H. Johnsen
Hege Wallevik (Norway) Research Fellow - Development Studies E-mail: hege.wallevik*at*agderforskning.no Phone: 480 10 543 Research topic: Transgressing Economic Boundaries: Gender, Commodification and Social Change in Zanzibar. Supervisor(s): Kjersti Larsen and Ian Bryceson
Jennifer Joy West(Canada) Research Fellow - Development Studies Phone: +47 64 96 52 00 / 22 85 87 73 (jennifer.west*at*umb.no /j.j.west@cicero.uio.no) Research topic: Climate change and agricultural development in Tanzania: actors, strategies, and discourses Supervisor (s): Ruth Haug and Siri Eriksen