Dr. Katharine Vincent u
Honorary Research Fellow
- 033 260 6584
- katharine@kulima.com
- BA (Hons) Geography, University of Oxford MRes Environmental Science Research, University of East Anglia PhD Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia (Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research)
- Centre for Water Resources Research
- Pietermaritzburg campus
Dr Vincent works within the field of vulnerability and adaptation to climate change, typically applying a gender lens. She was a lead author for the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report, Working Group 2 on Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability (chapter on rural areas, technical summary, and cross-chapter gender box). In her role as director of Kulima Integrated Development Solutions, she engages in transdisciplinary partnerships and facilitates co-production of useable knowledge that helps society to manage the risk posted by climate change.
Research interests
- Vulnerability and adaptation to climate change
- Disaster risk reduction,
- Gender,
- Climate services,
- Climate risk management,
- Climate finance, Transdisciplinary research and co-production,
- Knowledge brokering