Linda WaldmanFellow (Institute of Development Studies)
Research
I have undertaken research in Africa, the UK and south Asia. My research interests include higher education, gender, health, digital technology, environment and policy. I also work on interdisciplinary research on environmental health, asbestos diseases, peri-urban sustainability, and zoonotic disease. Some of my recent publications include:
2025 Aktar, B., Ozano, K., Rashid, S., Waldman, L., and S. Theobald. "Negotiating and Navigating Everyday Governance for Public Health Services in Dhaka City’s Informal Settlements: A Political Ecology Analysis : Political Ecology of Accessing Public Health Services in Informal Urban Settlements" to Journal of Community Systems for Health. Vol 2(1) https://doi.org/10.36368/jcsh.v2i1.1246
2024 World Health Organisation. 2024. Estimating the impact of vaccines in reducing antimicrobial resistance and antibiotic use: technical report. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO
2024 Arise Consortium (2024). Improving Accountability for Equitable Health and Well-being in Urban Informal Spaces: Moving from Dominant to Transformative Approaches. Progress in Development Studies, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/14649934231225530
2024 Marshall, F. Dolley, J., Bisht, R., Priya, R., Waldman, L., Randhawa, P., Scharlemann, J., Amerasinghe, P., Saharia, R., Kapoor, A., Rizvi, B., Hamid, Y., Arora, M., Chopra, I., and T. Kumud Sawansi. 2024. Recognising peri-urban ecosystem services in urban development policy and planning: A framework for assessing agri-ecosystem services, poverty and livelihood dynamics, Landscape and Urban Planning, Volume 247,2024,105042,ISSN 0169-2046, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2024.105042
2023 Barasa, V., Millican, J. and L. Waldman. 2023. White Paper Envisioning Gender Equity, Diversity, and Inclusivity for South East Asian Higher Education. British Council gedi_project_white_paper_report.pdf
2023 Williams, H., Faith, B. and L. Waldman. 'Technologies of Inclusion and/or Marginalisation? Mobile Phones and Multiple Exclusion Homeless Women’ to special issue: ‘Homelessness and Mobile Media’ Mobile Media & Communication.
2022 Mansaray B, Dean L, Tubb P, et al. Implications of COVID-19 for safeguarding in international development research: learning, action and reflection from a research hub. BMJ Global Health 2022;7:e008122. doi:10.1136/bmjgh-2021-00812
2022 Barasa, V. and Waldman, L. (2022) Exploring the Intersection of Sanitation, Hygiene, Water, and Health in Pastoralist Communities in Northern Tanzania, IDS Working Paper 562, Brighton: Institute of Development Studies, DOI: 10.19088/IDS.2022.004
2021 Ruth N. Zadoks, Gary C. Barker, Jackie Benschop, Kathryn J. Allan, Gemma Chaters, Sarah Cleaveland, John A. Crump, Margaret A. Davis, Blandina T. Mmbaga, Gerard Prinsen, Kate M. Thomas, Linda Waldman, and Nigel P. French. 2021. Spread of Nontyphoidal Salmonella in the Beef Supply Chain in Northern Tanzania: Sensitivity in a Probabilistic Model Integrating Microbiological Data and Data from Stakeholder Interviews. Risk Analysis, https://doi-org.ezproxy.sussex.ac.uk/10.1111/risa.13826