
Raihana Ferdous
Raihana is an energy geographer working as a postdoctoral research associate on a large (£1.3 million) multidisciplinary EPSRC-GCRF project: Geothermally Sourced Combined Power and Freshwater Generation for Eastern Africa (Combi-Gen) at the University of Glasgow. Her research is concerned with the development of sustainable energy and technology and in their shaping of the human and more than human worlds. Raihana has an extensive background in both Human Geography and Social Anthropology and has worked with various inter and multi-disciplinary teams. She is curious about different disciplinary approaches and always brings her multidisciplinary perspective to research that is empirically located in the Global South. Raihana values long-term ethnographic engagement and co-production of knowledge engaging with creative methods such as visual, storytelling, and following the networks and materials. Based on her PhD research, Raihana co-produce a film Off the Grid: Notes from a Forgotten Island and have won several awards.
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