Conference Papers and Presentations

2017

Vincent, Katharine; Dougill, Andy, Mataya, Diana; Mkwambisi, David; Conway, Declan; Archer van Garderen, Emma and Tembo Nhlema, Dorothy, 2017. From a clean slate to multiple options – eliciting user needs for climate information in MalawiFifth International Conference on Climate Services, Cape Town, 28 February-2 March 2017.

2016

Vincent, Katharine, Dougill, Andrew, Cull, Tracy, Stringer, Lindsay and Mataya, Diana, 2016, Critical reflections on a co-production science-policy process: A case study from Malawi. Adaptation Futures 2016, 10-13 May 2016, Rotterdam.

2015

Suckall, Natalie; Nicholls, Robert; Vincent, Katharine; Mensah, Adelina; Hazra, Somnath; Dey, Sunita and Mondal, Shahjahan, 2015. Understanding adaptation in African and Asian deltas. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2015, San Francisco, 14-18 December 2015.

2012

Vincent, Katharine; Cull, Tracy; Archer van Garderen, Emma and Davis, Claire. 2012. Bridging the gap: Experiences of communicating climate information between producers and end-users in South Africa. Planet Under Pressure 2012,  London, 26-29 March, 2012.

2011

Vincent, Katharine and Sina Luchen. 2011. Sustainability of a food security disaster risk reduction intervention: Early maturing crop varieties in Madagascar, Malawi and Mozambique. Experience-based Disaster Risk Reduction in Madagascar, Malawi and Mozambique, 25-27 October, Johannesburg.

Vincent, Katharine; Davis, Claire; Cull, Tracy and Archer, Emma. 2011. Bridging the gap: Experiences of communicating climate information between producers and end-users in southern Africa. AfricaAdapt Climate Change Symposium 2011, Addis Ababa, 9-11 March, 2011.

2010

Cull, Tracy. 2010. Mainstreaming environment into humanitarian action. UNICEF/IAHPT Emergency Preparedness and Response Training, Pretoria, 24-26 February, 2010.

Vincent, Katharine. 2010. Cell phones, electronic delivery systems and social cash transfers: Recent evidence and experiences from Africa. AITEC Banking and Mobile Money COMESA 2010, Nairobi, 24-25 February 2010.

Vincent, Katharine and Cull, Tracy. 2010. “Ten Seeds”: How mobiles have contributed to growth and development of women-led farming cooperatives in Lesotho.  M4D 2010: Mobile Communication Technology for Development, Entebbe, 10-11 November 2010.

Vincent, Katharine and Cull, Tracy. 2010. Climate change and food security in southern Africa: implications of theoretical development for the promotion of sustainable equitable development. PEGNet Conference 2010: Policies to foster and sustain equitable development in times of crises, Midrand (South Africa), 2-3 September 2010.

Vincent, Katharine and Cull, Tracy. 2010. A household index of social vulnerability for evaluating adaptation projects in developing countries. PEGNet Conference 2010: Policies to foster and sustain equitable development in times of crises, Midrand (South Africa), 2-3September 2010.

2009

Vincent, Katharine. 2009. A household level index of social vulnerability for evaluating adaptation projects in developing countries. Changing the Climate for Development in Africa, Tyndall Centre conference, Cape Town, 26-27 March 2009.

Vincent, Katharine and Cull, Tracy. 2009. Seizing an opportunity: evidence for the use of cellphones in rural farming communities in Lesotho and lessons learned for social protection. IDIA09, Kruger National Park, South Africa, 28-30 October 2009.

Vincent, Katharine and Cull, Tracy. 2009. The impact of social cash transfers: case study evidence from across southern Africa. Dynamics of Poverty and Patterns of Economic Accumulation in Mozambique. IESE Conference, Maputo, 22-23 April 2009.

2008

Vincent, Katharine and Freeland. Nicholas. 2008. Social transfer delivery mechanisms at the national level: innovations from Swaziland and Mozambique. Social Protection for the Poorest: Learning from Experience, Entebbe, 8-10 September 2008.

Vincent, Katharine and Devereux, Stephen. 2008. Social protection and climate change: what role for cash transfers in reducing vulnerability to climate change? Royal Geographical Society annual conference, London, 27-29 August 2008.

2007

Vincent, Katharine. 2007.Delivering Lesotho's Old Age Pension. Development Studies Association annual conference, Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, 18-20September 2007.

Vincent, Katharine and Freeland, Nicholas.2007. Upwardly mobile: Delivering Social Protection by Cellphone. IDPM and BWPI workshop on mobiles and development, Manchester, UK, 14 May 2007.

2006

Vincent, Katharine. 2006. Facilitating or constraining adaptation to climate change? Examining the role of the changing institutional framework on household decision-making in a dryland village in South Africa. Institutional Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Synthesis Conference, Bali, Indonesia, 6-9 December 2006.

Vogel, Coleen H. and Vincent, Katharine. 2006. Minding or muddying the gap? The role of corporate social responsibility in food security in South Africa. 2nd International CSR Conference, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, 11-13 October 2006.

Vincent, Katharine. 2006. Agricultural livelihoods and climate change: the different experiences of male- and female-headed households. A case study from Limpopo province, South Africa. XVI ISA World Congress of Sociology, Durban, South Africa, 23-29 July 2006.

2005

Vincent, Katharine and Adger, W. Neil. 2005. Uncertainty in adaptive capacity and the importance of scale.  6th Open Meeting of the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Research Community, University of Bonn, Germany, 9-13 October 2005.

2000

Cull, Tracy. 2000. The Seven Buildings Project: The rise and fall of social housing in Johannesburg inner city. Urban Futures 2000, Johannesburg, 10-14 July 2000.