Graduate Students

Milton is a Geographer and an environmentalist with research interests in Climate Climate issues, Milton is a PhD fellow in the Department of Geography, Geo-Informatics & Climatic Sciences whose focus is on climate change and apple farming in Kigezi region.

Benon B Nabaasa is a pastoralist and a graduate student at Makerere University’s Department of Geography Geoinformatics and Climatic Sciences. He holds a first-class honor from the Department of Forestry Biodiversity and Tourism and is now a researcher at the Urban Action Lab (UAL) housed under the Department of Geography, Makerere University. His fields of competency include natural resources and ecosystem services mapping, and survey, GIS, Geospatial analysis and Earth observation, Permaculture, Participatory GIS and Community Based Participatory Planning. Benon has been an active researcher and has several publications to his name. He is passionate about natural self-sustaining systems and livelihoods, systems like pastoralism, subsistence farming and all systems that imitate nature. Benon is currently doing a PhD in Geography focusing “Energy Geographies of Solar PV Rollout in Uganda” nabaasabenon@gmail.com

Bernard Lutalo doctoral student. My research project is on Sand mining within the river Katonga catchment, Uganda.

My name is Lunyolo Joyce, a PhD student in the Department Geography Geo-informatics and Climatic Sciences, Collage of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Makerere University. I am sponsored by DANIDA under a project called Agroforestry For People, Ecosystems and Environment(AFPEC).
I am also a graduate of Master of Geographical Sciences and Bachelor of Arts with Education from the same University. My research interest is in climate change and Environmental Management Currently, am working on a research entitled; Exploring incentives for stewardship efforts in coffee agroforestry among farmers in the Mt. Elgon region. I am under the supervision of Prof. Frank Muggaga, Dr. Kellen Aganyira and Dr. Katrine Gro. Friborg.

Judith is a Graduate Fellow and facilitator at the Urban Action Lab, housed under the Department of Geography, Geo-Informatics & Climatic Sciences, where she collaborates on research projects between the research lab and its partners, including community organizations, civil society organizations, and government agencies. She is passionate about informality and inequality and researches issues that affect the quality of life in terms of livability, economic growth, and development, inclusion, and equity, with a keen interest in policy and planning and how the two shape urban environments. Judith holds a bachelor’s degree in urban planning and a Master’s in land use and regional development planning. She is currently a Doctoral student in the department, investigating the climate-inequality-health nexus focusing on conditions that lead to varied malaria outcomes within Kampala city.

Betty Adoch is a PhD. student at Makerere University, Department of Geography, Geo-informatics, and Climatic Sciences. Betty is a researcher at the urban Action Lab under a project, Migration, Urbanisation, and Conflicts in Africa (MUCA). She is passonate about natural resource management and livelihoods, climate change adaptation, and refugee studies. Her PhD. project focuses on land conflict and livelihood nexus in Gulu city, Northern Uganda. The research supervisors and doctoral committee include Ass.Prof Frank Mugagga, Dr. Paul Isolo Mukwaya, Dr. Patrick Byakagaba, Dr. Caroline Aboda, and Dr. Henry Musoke Semakula.

I am a geographer specialising in socio-economic geography. At the moment, I am a PhD student working on coffee agroforestry value chain under the Agroforestry for People, Ecosystems and Climate (AfPEC) Project.
PhD Project: “Exploring opportunities within the coffee agroforestry value chains in the Mount Elgon Region, Uganda.”

My PhD research focuses on four main aspects within coffee agroforestry: understanding gender dynamics within the coffee value chain, evaluating the effectiveness of direct-to-market approaches, exploring farmers’ perceptions to Cascara production (a tea made from coffee berry pulp), and documenting the potential secondary products from coffee agroforestry for export and my Doctoral Committee Members are; Professor Frank Mugagga; Dr Kellen Aganyira; Professor Anne Mette Lykke; Professor Ida Theilade; Dr Catherine Mulinde
Research Interests: Coffee agroforestry, Sustainable agriculture, Rural and urban development, Sustainable energy transitions, Health geography (Infectious diseases of poverty; climate change and health), Geo-tourism

Geoffrey Bedijo is a PhD student in the Department of Geography, Geo-Informatics and Climate Sciences, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. His area of research interest in climate and land use land cover changes on water resources. He is currently focusing on climate and land use land cover changes on river flow in Nyagak micro-catchment, West Nile sub-region of Uganda. His research supervisors and doctoral committee members are Prof. Nelson Turyahabwe, Dr. Daniel Saul Ddumba, Dr. Christine Nagwa, Dr. Paul Mukwaya and Dr. Daniel Waiswa.

I am Otika Leonard, working with Lira City Council as a Senior Environment officer and Head of Natural Resource Department. Tel: +256 0772689977