Thesis subject
Interdisciplinary data on climate mobility
This project would examine the use of interdisciplinary data for climate mobility, also in active collaboration with Deltares (e.g. what does satellite data tell us and how does this inform climate governance).
Alternatively, if you have some funds available for fieldwork, there may be an opportunity to write a thesis in collaboration with Red Cross. This may also be extended into an internship.
The idea is to (via fieldwork) ground anonymized mobile phone data that Red Cross acquired of the mobility of pastoralist communities in Kenta, coping with a changing climate. Choosing this topic, means wanting to collaborate with societal partners.
About
Ingrid does research into the relations between climate/environmental change and human im/mobility, exploring the diverse ways in which people move (or may not want to, or may not be able to) in the context of growing climate risks. Her background is in international relations and human geography, and she uses mobile and interdisciplinary ethnography as a course method of research.
Thesis topics & projects
The topic will intersect with my Vidi project on Climate Mobility in the Borderlands funded by the Dutch Research Council (website yet to be made), and the research of PhD researchers Hanne Wiegel, Basundhara Tripathy, and three new PhD researchers that will soon join ENP.