Susannah Sallu
- Position
- Associate Professor Environment and Development
- Areas of expertise
- Climate resilient development, Rural livelihoods and development, Agricultural and food system sustainability, Biodiversity conservation, restoration and human wellbeing, Just Development Futures
- [email protected]
- Faculty
- Environment
- School
- Earth and Environment
- Website
- Faculty profile
Countries
Profile
Susannah is internationally recognised for her contributions across research, curricula, teaching and capacity development on climate resilient development in sub-Saharan Africa.
As an interdisciplinary environmental social scientist, Susannah works collaboratively with researchers, communities, practitioners and policy makers on impact-driven research at the nexus of four global challenges – climate change, food security, biodiversity loss and degradation of ecosystems, and poverty alleviation.
Research
Susannah specialises in building and leading collaborative teams to design and implement research, education and capacity development in Tanzania where she has worked for 25 years.
She actively contributes to large funded regional and continent wide programmes focussed on research and training on just rural development, climate resilient development, agriculture and food systems resilience, forest conservation, restoration and human wellbeing through close collaboration with partners in Tanzania, South Africa, Malawi, Zambia, Ghana and Kenya.
Susannah undertook her PhD in Botswana.
Student education
Susannah is leading Masters level curricula development in Leeds and in collaboration with African universities on Climate Change, Sustainable Development and Public Governance and training of African PhD and postdoctoral researchers.