ETH4D Doctoral Colloquium

Colloquium 2019_solar lights Kenya — *Credit: Corrie Wingate Photography/SolarAid*

ETH4D PhD Seminar: Research for Development

The annual doctoral colloquium «Research for Development» is being offered for doctoral students as part of the lectures at the Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (D-GESS).

Prof. Isabel Günther, Director of Nadel (D-GESS), Prof. Elizabeth Tilley, Global Health Engineering (D-MAVT), and Dr. Adina Rom, Executive Director of ETH4D (D-GESS), build the teaching team. Doctoral candidates from all ETH departments, whose research is related to global sustainable development issues and conducted in low- or middle-income countries, are invited to give a presentation about their on-going work and discuss their doctoral project with a diverse group of researchers.

The next colloquium will take place during the fall 2024 semester on November 14 & 15. Registration via the course catalog.

Selected Presentations from the Colloquium 2023

Olayinka Theophilus Aremu: Download Decent work, labor shortages, and labor contracting in local agri-food systems: A case study of wage employment in Nigeria's tomato value chain (PPTX, 17.4 MB)
Supervisor: Prof. Eva-Marie Meemken, D-USYS

Olivier Dietrich: Download Estimating progress to SDG target 6.1. in LMICs with machine learning and earth observation data (PPTX, 27.6 MB)
Supervisor: Prof. Konrad Schindler, D-BAUG

Sarah van den Broek: Download Understanding the impacts of antibiotics from human excreta derived fertilizers on the soilmicrobial- plant nexus (PPTX, 25.1 MB)
Supervisor: Prof. Gina Garland, D-USYS