ICCCAD Seminar Series: Camelia Dewan

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Date/Time
Date(s) - 20/10/2014
15:00 - 16:00

Location
ICCCAD Conference Room

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This week’s instalment of the ICCCAD Seminar Series will be taking place at 3:00 pm on Monday, October 20. Camelia Dewan will be leading the seminar on her PhD Thesis concerning ‘Political Ecology and Gendered Migration in Bangladesh’s Southwest coastal zone’

About the seminar:

Based on the last research project Camelia worked on for IWMI, she experienced that climate change risks were highly exacerbated by anthropogenic environmental degration, such as salinity, siltation and drainage congestion. Camelia’s PhD looks at the economic and environmental impacts of changing land use and their social consequences among female headed households. For this seminar she will present the motivation and background of her PhD research, key findings from her archival research and what she aims to explore during the next nine months of fieldwork in Satkhira and Khulna. 

About the speaker:

Camelia Dewan is born and raised in Sweden but have lived in the UK for nearly a decade studying an MA International Relations at the University of Edinburgh (with an exchange year at UPenn, Philadephia) and an MSc Development Studies at LSE. Camelia has worked as an M&E intern at Swedish Sida; as a Programme Officer at the Stockholm International Water Management Institute and as Research Manager/Consultant at the International Water Management Institute working on community-based water management in Bangladesh’s coastal zone. Currently she is a PhD candidate at the University of London in an intercollegiate research project between SOAS Social Anthropology and Birkbeck’s History department. Camelia will be conducting fieldwork in Satkhira and Khulna from the 22nd September to July next year.