PhD students on world stage

Two early career researchers in the CRC for Water Sensitive Cities are building their international profile.

Stephanie Jacobs, PhD candidate based at Monash University, recently published an article on ‘The Conversation’ website titled Bad luck, Brisbane: muggy cities will feel future heat even more.

A researcher in the Cities as Water Supply Catchments – Green Cities and Microclimate (Project B3.1), Stephanie’s PhD thesis focuses on ‘Changes to urban thermal comfort from water sensitive infrastructure’.

The Conversation, a collaboration between news editors and academics, reaches a global audience of 2.2 million readers a month. About 80 percent of The Conversation’s readers have a non-academic background.

Another PhD candidate, Christoph Brodnik from Monash University, has been awarded an internship within the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Water Governance Program.

Christoph will be working with the “Cities and Water Governance” project group which aims to identify obstacles, collect and showcase best practices and suggest policy recommendations to support effective urban water governance.

A researcher in the project area Better governance for complex decision making (Project A3.1), Christoph is involved in studying the nature and timing of highly successful strategies that lead to system-wide change processes in urban water management.