Climate Change: Impacts & Responses Research Network

Claudia Ribeiro Pereira Nunes is a Ph.D. student and member of the research group GIESA-INNOVATION at the Administrative Law Department of the School of Law at Universidad Complutense de Madrid. She conducts interdisciplinary research to understand better the impact of global law, sustainability, and governance issues on innovative technology and environmental challenges facing the European Union region. Her current research includes ecological policy in the Iberian Peninsula, particularly public policies and tourism and leisure mobility dynamics. Her future interests touch on climate change, renewable energy, mobility, transportation, and air pollution policies applied to tourism.

Olufemi is a Newton International Fellow at University of Lincoln, UK conducting research crosscutting sustainability, climate change, heritage conservation and management, and community engagement. As an early career researcher, he is contributing to mainstreaming climate preparedness and adaptation planning across communities in Sub-Saharan Africa and Australia. He is also an Executive Board Member of ICOMOS (International Council on Monuments and Sites) and three International Scientific Committees. He is an impact maker contributing to achieving targets for SDG 1 (No Poverty), SDG 3 (Good Health and Well-being, SDG 6 (Clean Water and Sanitation), SDG 11 (Sustainable Cities and Communities), SDG 13 (Climate Action) and SDG 17 (Partnerships for the Goals).

Mr. Philip Onyekachukwu Egbule is a Nigerian. He holds B.Sc (Ed) (2004) and M.Sc (Ed) (2011) in Social Studies/Education. He lectures in the Department of Social Studies Education, University of Delta, Agbor, Nigeria. As a social scientist/educationist by training, his chief scholarly interests include globalization studies, African culture, human rights and gender issues. He has 51 scholarly articles in journals between 2013 – present. He has presented over 40 research findings in national and international conferences/workshops in his area of interest. He is curious minded, flexible, endowed with capability to cope in multicultural environments.

Fatema Jahan Sharna is an Additional District and Sessions Judge of Bangladesh. She has also worked as a Researcher on Deputation at the Law Commission of Bangladesh, where she drafted several laws and policies for the government. Sharna earned her LL.B (Hons), LL.M, and MSS in Criminology and Criminal Justice from the University of Dhaka in Bangladesh. She is currently pursuing her MPhil in Environmental Laws at the same university. As an Auatralia Awards Scholarship Awardee, she recently completed her Research Master (MRes) on gender equity and climate change adaptation at Macquarie University in Australia. Her research interests include gender, CDP, migration victims, human rights, environmental rights, Rohingyas, and indigenous people.

Dr. Md Abdul Awal Khan has been contributing to legal education, research, and training since 2005. Currently he has been serving as a Professor of Law, at the Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB). He obtained his PhD at the School of Law, Western Sydney University, Australia in 2015. He served as an Erasmus Mundus Visiting Scholar in 2017. Dr Khan completed several projects funded by national and international organizations including Raoul Wallenberg Institute (RWI). His area of expertise includes environmental law, climate change law and policy and human rights.

Adebisi Benjamin Tèmídayọ is an Academic and Researcher. He is the Director of Frontier Legend Educators and Institute of Anatomy, Cell Biology, Brain and Neurodegeneration; educational platforms focused on educating people on the social space about health and ways to optimize living. His interest in Climate and Environment stems from the idea that human ecosystem have a major role to play in health and well-being and human impacts and roles are of great relevance to degrading or maintaining the system.

Birtukan Dessie Getahun is an Assistant Professor in Agricultural Entomology. With a PhD degree, she has a comprehensive understanding of research, technology transfer and implement, review and support food security projects, pest management of crops and community based rehabilitation program of working across geographical areas. She has taken her initiative in designing and implementing bamboo based entrepreneurship for the resource poor communities. Additionally, climate change mitigation strategies and restoration and conservation of degraded lands in Ethiopia. Birtukan is also actively engage in providing expert advice and work closely with the Livelihoods and the Resilience Program Management areas.

Tugba, PhD – ABD in Environmental Design at the University of Calgary, centers her research on place theory, person-place relationships, and the non-economic aspects of recovery from climate-induced disasters and trauma. Her academic work delves into understanding how individuals adapt and recover from severe climate events, with a particular emphasis on the influence of place-based memories in shaping their responses. Her current research involves collaboration with Lytton residents in British Columbia, profoundly affected by the 2021 wildfire season, to examine how their local perceptions of this extreme climate event and associated place-based memories can inform post-disaster recovery planning. Tugba's interdisciplinary approach, which incorporates knowledge co-creation and reflexive visual methodologies, aims to challenge the established power structures within disaster studies.