Dr Susie Goodall

BSc MSc PhD AFHEA

  • Lecturer in Water Engineering

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Susie Goodall

Research and expertise

I am an interdisciplinary researcher with international experience in sustainable water, sanitation and hygiene provision and disaster studies. I am broadly interested in socio-ecological systems, the interactions between humans and the environment we live in, and how to combine knowledge (both local and scientific) to make good decisions. This includes questions around how water and sanitation services can be sustained through environmental shocks and gradual change.

Current research activity

I currently co-supervise the following PhD students:

Recently completed research projects

  • PhD (part-time) funded by CENTA Studentship Award (http://centa.org.uk/) from Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Doctoral Training Partnership and supported by a CASE studentship with British Geological Survey and by the Global Geological Risk Platform of the British Geological Survey NC-ODA grant NE/R000069/1: Geoscience for Sustainable Futures.
    Supervised by Dr. Tom Dijkstra & Dr. Ksenia Chmutina (Loughborough University), Dr. Alessandro Novellino (British Geological Survey), Professor Xingmin Meng (Lanzhou University)
    The Bailong River valley in northwest China has a high incidence of debris flows and landslides. Taking a critical realist perspective, this research combined remote sensing, geomorphology and social science methods to explore the changing human-environment system and the linkages between geohazards, risk perception, culture and knowledge.
  • DFID rural WASH results project in South Asia (phase I)– working as a research associate with Plan International, WaterAid, Unilever and WSUP on a £25 million sanitation, hygiene and water programme from 2017-18.

Recent publications

Goodall, S, Li, Y, Chmutina, K, Dijkstra, T, Meng, X, Jordan, C (2021) Exploring disaster ontologies from Chinese and Western perspectives: commonalities and nuances, Disaster Prevention and Management, 31(3), pp.260-272, ISSN: 0965-3562. DOI: 10.1108/DPM-03-2021-0108.

Goodall, S, Khalid, Z, Del-Pinto, M (2021) Disaster conversations: intersecting perspectives on cross-cultural disaster research, Disaster Prevention and Management: an international journal, 31(1), pp.10-21, ISSN: 0965-3562. DOI: 10.1108/DPM-03-2021-0107.

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Teaching

I am the Programme Leader for the WEDC MSc Programmes in Water Management for Development and Water Engineering for Development. I enjoy interacting with our many students studying around the world.

Profile

I completed my BSc degree in Natural Science at Durham University (2002-5), developed an interest in water and the environment and went on to study for a Masters at Cranfield University (2008-9) in Water Management.

After working in Niger for several years managing rural integrated water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) projects, my research career began at Oxford University, working on new models for sustainable water systems in Kenya with the REACH project, before moving to WEDC, Loughborough in 2017 to work on the South Asia WASH Results Programme in Bangladesh and Pakistan with WaterAid and Plan International.

Awards

  • 2019 School of Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering Award for Doctoral Researcher Excellence for outstanding leadership
  • 2022 School of Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement