Tabitha K. Kabora
Associate Lecturer in Environment
Profile
Biography
I am an environmental modeller with a background in environmental sciences and archaeology. I completed a PhD in Archaeology from the University of York and I hold an MSc in Biology of Conservation and BSc in Environmental Conservation both from the University of Nairobi.
My interdisciplinary research explores human and environment interactions within the Holocene and Anthropocene with a focus on biodiversity, sustainability and large-scale landscape modifications. My research interests include:
- understanding the effects of human activities on biodiversity and how we can enhance the future utility of land use practices for biodiversity and conservation management
- using agent-based models to explore the socio-environmental factors that influenced the development and resilience of historical agricultural systems in East Africa as well as models to
- understanding landscape changes and responses to Holocene sea-level rise in the North Sea using computer simulations and agent based models
Research projects also included as a Co-Investigator in an AHRC-NERC funded project (Activating the Archive: African environmental histories and knowledges materialised in museum collections) which involved interdisciplinary perspectives on the use of a range of museum artifacts (i.e. objects, archival photographs and ethnographic evidence) to understand past environments, with a focus on the colonial period.
My research has led to collaborations with researchers across the world from the UK, Tanzania, Kenya, the Netherlands and Ethiopia.
