SRUC’s Dr Rosie Everett to tackle climate resilience and water scarcity with a British Academy Fellowship

An SRUC scientist has been awarded over £100,000 from the British Academy for a 12-month Fellowship to address climate resistance and water scarcity in southern Africa.

Research Associate Dr Rosie Everett, based at SRUC’s Edinburgh Campus, will work with the Global Water Partnership in Lesotho to co-produce culturally sensitive policy recommendations for sustainable agriculture and water management, in alignment with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.

The opportunity is one of seven new Fellowships granted as part of the ODA Global Innovation Fellowships funding scheme, all of which will “address challenges that require innovative approaches and solutions to create new and deeper links beyond academia”.

Dr Everett, whose Fellowship funding forms part of a £337 million International Science Partnerships Fund (ISPF) said: “The Fellowship will facilitate new research interdisciplinary approaches to cultural heritage and land use management with key partners such as the Global Water Partnership. I’m grateful for this unique opportunity to seek solutions to some of the most challenging issues the world is facing today and, particularly, for the chance to address the problem of climate resilience in one of the countries most immediately impacted by it.

“I look forward to sharing my findings, which will include options to inform global environmental governance.”

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Posted by SRUC on 27/03/2025