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Sarah Jewitt

Professor of Human Geography and Development, Faculty of Social Sciences

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Expertise Summary

I have longstanding experience of undertaking participatory and ethnographic work in India on community based forest management, the collection and marketing of non-timber forest produce, indigenous environmental knowledge, gender-environment relations and agrarian change. More recent work in India has focused on geographies of sanitation and decentralised rural energy systems with particular emphasis on the linkages between agricultural waste, energy production and improved sanitation. Outside India, I have worked on rainwater harvesting in Tanzania, the restoration of tropical peatlands in SE Asia, barriers to the introduction of improved cook stoves in southern Africa and menstrual hygiene management in Kisumu Kenya. My research pays particular attention to political ecology of natural resource management, intra- and inter-community variations in environmental knowledge possession and management capacity and the socio-cultural importance of indigenous environmental knowledge and practices.

Research Summary

My research interests lie mainly at the interface between environment and development although gender-environment relations are an important element of my work. Building on longstanding research… read more

Selected Publications

  • SARAH JEWITT, MATTHEW SMALLMAN-RAYNOR, EMMA MCCLAUGHLIN, MICHAEL CLARK, STEPHEN DUNHAM, SOL ELLIOTT, ALASTAIR MUNRO, TAMSIN PARNELL and RACHAEL TARLINTON, 2023. Heliyon.
  • JEWITT, S., MCCLAUGHLIN, E., ELLIOTT, S., SMALLMAN-RAYNOR, M., CLARK, M., DUNHAM, S. and TARLINTON, R., 2024. Veterinary Record.
  • EMMA MCCLAUGHLIN, SOL ELLIOTT, SARAH JEWITT, MATTHEW SMALLMAN-RAYNOR, STEPHEN DUNHAM, TAMSIN PARNELL, MICHAEL CLARK and RACHAEL TARLINTON, 2024. Preventive Veterinary Medicine.
  • JEWITT, S, SMALLMAN-RAYNOR, M, K.C., B., ROBINSON, B, ADHIKARI, P, EVANS, C, KARMACHARYA, B, BOLTON, C and HALL, I, 2022. Social Science and Medicine. 308, 115201

Current Research

My research interests lie mainly at the interface between environment and development although gender-environment relations are an important element of my work. Building on longstanding research focusing on the interactions between agriculture/household household energy/respiratory-health and sanitation issues in rural India and southern Africa, I have been involved in projects associated with household air pollution and lung health in Nepal and improving nitrogen use efficiency among smallholders in Brazil. I also have interests in gender and sanitation-related issues including the impacts of menstruation and puberty on girls' spatial mobility and life chances in low and middle-income contexts. Closer to home, I have undertaken research on how smallscale poultry keepers in the UK understand and comply with (or not) government guidance and regulations designed to control the spread of avian influenza and veterinarians' perspectives on these control measures.

Past Research

I have been undertaking research in India since 1989 and have worked extensively on environment-development issues. My doctoral research was conducted in Jharkhand on community-based forest management and gendered environmental knowledge and was followed by DfID-funded research on the production and management of non-timber forest products in Jharkhand and Odisha. Particular interests linked to this work include the displacement of indigenous agro-ecological knowledge, the gendered political ecology of natural resource management, intra- and inter-community variations in environmental knowledge possession and management capacity and the socio-cultural importance of forests and its influence on community-based resource management.

From 2001-6, I undertook collaborative research with Dr Kathy Baker in Uttar Pradesh on agrarian change in the post Green Revolution period which in turn, fed into research on alternative household energy systems and the socio-economic and gendered geographies of dung with a particular emphasis on how the redistribution of dung (including human excreta) within the agriculture/household energy/livestock-rearing nexus can help to address declining yields as well as health and socioeconomic issues relating to indoor air pollution, poor sanitation and inadequate household energy supplies. Outside India, I have worked on barriers to the introduction of improved cookstoves in southern Africa and the restoration of tropical peatland in SE Asia to promote sustainable natural resource use and reduce carbon emissions.

Future Research

My work on avian influenza is ongoing and I am continuing to work with smallscale poultry keepers to better understand how they perceive avian influenza-related threats to their poultry, pets and themselves. I am also working with colleagues to explore the most effective communication approaches for promoting biosecurity-related improvements in smallscale poultry keeping settings. A related strand of research involves understanding veterinarians' knowledge and experience of avian influenza and the factors underpinning generally low levels of confidence in treating birds among general practice veterinarians in the UK.

  • JEWITT, S., MCCLAUGHLIN, E., ELLIOTT, S., SMALLMAN-RAYNOR, M., CLARK, M., DUNHAM, S. and TARLINTON, R., 2024. Veterinary Record.
  • EMMA MCCLAUGHLIN, SOL ELLIOTT, SARAH JEWITT, MATTHEW SMALLMAN-RAYNOR, STEPHEN DUNHAM, TAMSIN PARNELL, MICHAEL CLARK and RACHAEL TARLINTON, 2024. Preventive Veterinary Medicine.
  • SARAH JEWITT, MATTHEW SMALLMAN-RAYNOR, EMMA MCCLAUGHLIN, MICHAEL CLARK, STEPHEN DUNHAM, SOL ELLIOTT, ALASTAIR MUNRO, TAMSIN PARNELL and RACHAEL TARLINTON, 2023. Heliyon.
  • PHILLIP, E., CONROY, R., WALSH, A., JUMBE, V., JEWITT, S., LEE, S. and STANISTREET, D., 2023. Journal of Public Health.
  • AONDOAKAA, S. and JEWITT, S., 2022. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment.
  • HEWITT, J., HOLDEN, M., ROBINSON, B.L., JEWITT, S. and CLIFFORD, M., 2022. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 165,
  • JEWITT, S, SMALLMAN-RAYNOR, M, K.C., B., ROBINSON, B, ADHIKARI, P, EVANS, C, KARMACHARYA, B, BOLTON, C and HALL, I, 2022. Social Science and Medicine. 308, 115201
  • ROBINSON, B. and CLIFFORD, M., 2022. Energy Research and Social Science.
  • ROBINSON, B., JEWITT, S., CLIFFORD, M. and HEWITT, J., 2021. Development in Practice.
  • ROBINSON, B., CLIFFORD, M. and JEWITT, S., 2021. Energies.
  • ROBINSON, B., CLIFFORD, M., HEWITT, J. and JEWITT, S., 2021. Energy for Sustainable Development.
  • MOURA, E.M., MOONEY, S., CAMPOS, L., BASTOS, K., AGUIAR, A. and JEWITT, S., 2021. Environment, Development and Sustainability.
  • STANISTREET, D., PHILLIP, E., KUMAR, N., ANDERSON DE CUEVAS, R., DAVIS, M., LANGEVIN, J., JUMBE, V., WALSH, A., JEWITT, S. and CLIFFORD, M., 2021. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 9226
  • ROBINSON, B., CLIFFORD, M. and JEWITT, S., 2021. Energy Research and Social Science.
  • JEWITT, S., ATAGHER, P. and CLIFFORD, M., 2020. Energy Research and Social Science. 61, 101340
  • JEWITT, S., ATAGHER, P., CLIFFORD, M., SESAN, T. and RAY, C., 2020. . In: HALLER, T. and ZINGERLI, C., eds., Towards Shared Research. Participatory and integrative approaches in researching African environments. Verlag, Bielefeld. 91-124
  • DONGZAGLA, A., JEWITT, S. and O'HARA, S., 2020. Science of the Total Environment.
  • HARTLEY S., MCLEOD C., CLIFFORD M., JEWITT S. and RAY C., 2019. Journal of Responsible Innovation. 61, 143-162
  • SESAN, T., CLIFFORD, M., JEWITT, S. and RAY, C., 2019. Feminist Economics. 25, 240-266
  • STEVENS, L., SANTANGELO, E., MUZEE, K., CLIFFORD, M. and JEWITT, S., 2019. Development in Practice.
  • JEWITT, S., 2019. . In: KAECHELE, K., ed., Eat the Problem MONA.
  • DONGZAGLA, A., JEWITT, S. and O鈥橦ARA, S., 2019. Groundwater for Sustainable Development.
  • JEWITT, S., 2019.
  • JEWITT, S. and RAMAN, S., 2018. Progress in Development Studies.. 17, 173-185
  • AKINTAN O., JEWITT S. and CLIFFORD M, 2018. Energy Research and Social Science.
  • JEWITT S., MAHANTA A. and GAUR K, 2018. The Geographical Journal.
  • HEWITT, J., RAY, C., JEWITT, S. and CLIFFORD, M., 2018. Energy Policy. 117, 127-135
  • SESAN, T., JEWITT, S., CLIFFORD, M. and RAY, C., 2018. International Journal Of Environmental Health Research.
  • ATAGHER, P., CLIFFORD, M., JEWITT, S. and RAY, C., 2018. . In: BREBBIA, C.A. and SENDRA, J.J., eds., Energy and Sustainability VII: WIT Transactions on Ecology and The Environment. Vol 224 224. WIT Press. 101-111
  • RAY C., CLIFFORD M., JEWITT S. and SESAN T., 2017. From Barriers to Enablers: Where next for Improved Cookstoves Boiling Point. 69,
  • UGOH, S., CLARKE, M. and JEWITT, S., 2016. Tale of an orange In: 3rd All Africa Horticultural Congress in Nigeria, 2016.
  • JEWITT, S. and RYLEY, H., 2015. In: 38th WEDC International Conference, Loughborough University. Water, sanitation and hygiene services beyond 2015: Improving access and sustainability.
  • JEWITT, S., 2015. The Conversation.
  • JEWITT, S., 2014. Green Revolution Farming: Unanticipated Consequences. In: ALBALA, K., ed., FOOD ISSUES: AN ENCYCLOPEDIA SAGE.
  • JEWITT, S. and RYLEY, H., 2014. Geoforum. 56, 137-147
  • JEWITT, S., NASIR, D., PAGE, S.E., RIELEY, J.O. and KHANAL, K., 2014. International Forestry Review. 16(4), 405-420
  • RAY C., CLIFFORD M. and JEWITT S., 2014. Boiling Point. 64, 2-5
  • JEWITT S., 2014. The Conversation.
  • SZALAI, K., FIELD, R. and JEWITT, S., 2013. Biodiversity Science. 10,
  • BAABEREYIR, A., JEWITT, S. and O'HARA, S., 2012. Environment and Planning A. 44(2), 297鈥�314
  • JEWITT, S. and BAKER, K., 2012. Global Environmental Change. 22(2), 547-557
  • JEWITT, S., 2011. Applied Geography. 31(2), 761-769
  • JEWITT, S., 2011. Progress in Human Geography. 35(5), 608-626
  • JEWITT, S. and BAKER, K., 2011. Spatial agendas for decision-making in Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh: the influence of place, class, and caste on women's role in environmental management. In: RAJU, S., ed., Gendered geographies: place and space in South Asia Oxford University Press. 213-244
  • SZALAI K., FIELD R. and JEWITT S., 2011. Biodiversity Science.: Developments in Biodiversity and Conservation Management.
  • JEWITT, S., 2008. Asia Pacific Viewpoint. 49(1), 68-82. (In Press.)
  • BAKER, K. and JEWITT, S.L., 2007. Journal of Development Studies. 43(2), 312-339
  • JEWITT, S.L. and BAKER, K., 2006. Geoforum. 38(1), 73-89
  • CORBRIDGE, S., JEWITT, S. and KUMAR, S., 2004. Jharkhand: environment, development and ethnicity New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
  • JEWITT, S., 2002. Environment, knowledge and gender: local development in India's Jharkhand Aldershot: Ashgate.
  • JEWITT, S., 2002. Modern farming, socio-environmental disasters and the displacement of traditional agriculture? A re-assessment from Ranchi District, Jharkhand. In: South Asia in a Globalising World: A Reconstructed Regional Geography Prentice Hall, Hemel Hempstead, Herts, UK. 19-50
  • JEWITT, S, 2000. Journal of Peasant Studies. 27(2), 94-131
  • JEWITT, S, 2000. Development and Change. 31(5), 961-985
  • JEWITT, S and KUMAR, S, 2000. A Political Ecology of Forest Management: Gender and Indigenous Silvicultural Knowledges in Jharkhand, India. In: PHILIP STOTT and SIAN SULLIVAN, eds., Political Ecologies: Power, Myth and Science Arnold. 91-113
  • JEWITT S, 1998. Autonomous and Joint Forest Management in India's Jharkhand: Lessons for the Future. In: R. JEFFREY, ed., The Social Construction of Indian Forests 145-168
  • CORBRIDGE S and JEWITT S, 1997. Environment and Planning A. 29(12),
  • JEWITT S, 1995. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. 13(1), 67-90
  • JEWITT S, 1995. Journal of Biogeography. 22(6), 1003-1021

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