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Donovan Campbell, UWI Postgraduate Student Receives Award for Doctoral Research

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“Donovan Campbell was one of three international postgraduate students invited to the Third International Conference on Climate Change: Impacts and Responses in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil recently to receive an award for their outstanding doctoral research.

Mr Campbell is a PhD candidate in the Department of Geography & Geology, University of the West Indies, Mona. He was also asked to Chair five panel sessions as well as to present on his research topic at the Conference themed “Climate Change and its Global Implications for People, Ethics and Equity”. 

Donovan is co-author in five peer-reviewed publications based on his doctoral research and additional collaborative research with colleagues in universities in the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada. One of these articles received the Principal’s Award for the best publication in the Faculty of Pure & Applied Sciences in January 2011, in conjunction with his supervisor, Professor David Barker. This particular article also attracted the attention of NASA, who highlighted his research in their on-line publication Sensing Our Planet: NASA Earth Science Research Features in special feature ‘Catching a Crop’, by Karla Lefevre..

Donovan’s doctoral research is on Climate Change and Small Farming in southern St Elizabeth, and focuses on climate change impacts on domestic food production, food security and the livelihood vulnerability of small farmers in Jamaica. The research utilizes both quantitative techniques (Livelihood Vulnerability Indices) and qualitative (ethnography) methods to understand how small farmers cope with and adapt to climatic variability and change. This research was featured in the UWI Research for Development (2011) booklet and in the last two issues of the science magazine CaribXplorer.

Donovan Campbell

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