Linda Downsborough

Research Interests

• Water and Environment
• Natural Resource Management
• Social Ecological Systems
• Citizen Science
• Learning
• Social Networks
• Communities of Practice and Transdisciplinary Research

Brief Bio

Linda is the Head of Environmental Science at IIE MSA and a lecturer specialising in water management. She has been integral to establishing and co-ordinating water related education programmes at IIE MSA and lectures and

supervises on the Master of Philosophy in Integrated Water Management. She is currently developing and coordinating the design of a new undergraduate qualifi cation in Science, a BSc in Environmental Science.

She holds a Master’s degree in Education, specialising in Environmental Education, and is currently undertaking her Doctorate in Education at Rhodes University. She has worked on a number of externally funded research grants including a 5-year project on water security funded by the Lloyds Register Foundation, a 3 year USAID research grant and two Water Research Commission grants.

She is passionate about learning, social networks and communities of practice all within a natural resource management context and has a number of publications in these fi elds. Her other research interests include;Transdisciplinary researchSocial ecological systemsCitizen scienceSustainability and the SDG’s