by Katharine Vincent | Feb 24, 2011 | Projects, Travel
Dr Katharine Vincent attended the INGC planning meeting, held on 23-24th February in Maputo, together with colleagues Dr Mark Tadross of Climate Risk Management and Dr Emma Archer of CSIR. Climate Risk Management is leading an INGC phase 2 project, in partnership...
by Katharine Vincent | Feb 24, 2011 | Publications
Dr Alec Joubert has recently been cited in an article in South Africa’s Financial Mail. In “The Heat is On”, by Stafford Thomas, Alec talks of the projected nature of climate change in South Africa. Climate change is an inconvenient truth, as former US vice-president...
by Katharine Vincent | Feb 5, 2011 | Projects, Training, Travel
Dr Katharine Vincent and Tracy Cull will shortly be leaving for Accra, Ghana, where they will be acting as mentors at the UNU-UNISDR-SEI Anglophone African Writeshop. The event, which aims to assist African early career scholars, practitioners and policy-makers to...
by Katharine Vincent | Jan 11, 2011 | Publications
The paper “Cell phones, electronic delivery systems and social cash transfers: Recent evidence and experiences from Africa” by Dr Katharine Vincent and Ms Tracy Cull has just been published in the journal International Social Security Review. The paper is based on...
by Katharine Vincent | Jan 8, 2011 | Travel
Dr Katharine Vincent has just left for Tsukuba, Japan, where she will participate in the first Lead Authors Meeting of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Working Group Two for the forthcoming Fifth Assessment Report. Katharine is a lead author on...