Our research
Training the next generation of water professionals
The Smith School contributes to teaching on the MSc in Water Science, Policy and Management and the MSc in Sustainability Enterprise and the Environment.
The school also has an outstanding cohort of PhD/DPhil scholars. This includes partnership with the NEWAVE International Training Network co-led by Dr Dustin Garrick.
Keeping piped water flowing in rural India
The Government of India aims to provide every rural household with piped drinking water by 2024. Significant public investments have been allocated between 2019 and 2024 to support Prime Minister Modi’s vision through the Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM). As the construction phase nears completion, maintaining piped networks to keep water flowing is an increasing priority.
Our team
Academic collaboration
Graduate students
- Andrew Armstrong | Supervisor: Rob Hope, Johanna Koehler
- Sophie Erfurth | Supervisor: Dustin Garrick
- Safa Fanaian | Supervisor: Dustin Garrick, Radhika Khosla
- Ella Fleming | Supervisor: Dustin Garrick
- Gina Gilson | Supervisor: Dustin Garrick
- Rebecca Peters | Supervisor: Rob Hope
- Johannes Wagner | Supervisor: Rob Hope
- Charles Wight | Supervisor: Dustin Garrick
- Sandra Serumaga-Zake | Supervisor: Alex Money and Rob Hope
Latest news
The UN Water Conference is a rare window of opportunity
The UN will host the second global water conference in New York on 22-24 March, over forty years after the first gathering in Argentina in 1977. Rob Hope asks: why so long? And, what can this event hope to deliver?
Keeping piped water flowing in rural India
Maintaining piped networks in rural India to keep water flowing in functional household tap connections is an increasing priority.
‘Rivers in the sky’ shape African climate
Deep valleys contain airborne ‘rivers in the sky’ and help to create arid conditions in East Africa, according to new research from the University of Oxford and the Met Office.