Afsana Esha
Esha started her PhD in 2022 (funded by the Christopher Moyes Memorial Foundation). Her tentative PhD title is Avoiding graveyards of drinking water technologies in Bangladesh. Esha is working on issues around water security, looking at drinking water infrastructure situating them as social, economic, and material infrastructure with the aim to understand how the technologies and their governance affect the experiences of people
Naznin Nasir
Naznin started her PhD in 2018 (funded by the Christopher Moyes Memorial Foundation). Her PhD focuses on the intersection of postcolonial geography, climate change, and development. Prior to coming to Durham, she was coordinating the migration programme of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Emmanuel Dogbey
Started his PhD in 2026 (funded by the Christopher Moyes Memorial Foundation).
PhD title: “Flood-Induced Cascading Failures in Wastewater Infrastructure Systems”
His research aims to understand how flooding interacts with wastewater networks and infrastructure interdependencies to contribute to cascading failures and disruptions in essential services. The findings are expected to inform risk-based decision-making towards strengthening infrastructure resilience and maintaining service continuity during disasters.