Research and expertise
I am an interdisciplinary researcher, interested broadly in human-environment interactions, with experience conducting cross-cultural research in the sustainability of water, sanitation and hygiene provision, and specifically financial sustainability of rural water services.
I am finalising my PhD in disaster risk reduction, looking at landslides and debris flows in northwest China. Taking a critical realist perspective, I combine remote sensing, geomorphology and social science methods to explore the changing human-environment system and the linkages between geohazards, risk perception, culture and knowledge.
Current research activity
- PhD (part-time) funded by CENTA Studentship Award (http://centa.org.uk/) from the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Doctoral Training Partnership and supported by a CASE studentship with the 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.
My supervisors are Dr. Tom Dijkstra & Dr. Ksenia Chmutina (Loughborough University), Dr. Alessandro Novellino (British Geological Survey), Professor Xingmin Meng (Lanzhou University)
Recently completed research projects
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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.
Teaching
I contribute to learning and teaching activities across the school including the MSc programmes in Water Management for Development and Water Engineering for Development and bespoke training courses in Emergency Water, Sanitation and Hygiene.
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.
I also have experience as a student support worker, a recycling promoter, and in emergency response on the Greek islands in 2015 and after Hurricane Maria in the Caribbean in 2017.
Awards
- 2019 School of Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering Award for Doctoral Researcher Excellence for outstanding leadership
Key collaborators
My research activities are conducted with a range of academic and stakeholder partners, including:
- British Geological Survey
- Lanzhou University, China