Sarah Louise Hemstock

About

Project Team Leader ,
Pacific Center of Environment and Sustainable Development, University of the South Pacific

Summary

Member of Linnean Society of London (FLS)
Visiting Fellow of Nottingham Trent University, UK
Officer for Environmental Science for the government of Tuvalu Honorary Ambassador
Project Team Leader for PACE-SD USP, Suva Fiji
Leading the 8 million Euro European Union Global Climate Change Alliance Project. Working in 15 P-ACP countries.
http://eugcca.usp.ac.fj/Home.aspx
Principal Supervisor for 7 MSc & 3 PhD students plus 2MSc completions in 2012. Developing and delivering courses for PGDip in Climate Change. Developing a new programme for PGDip Disaster Risk Management. Developing and administering "on-line" resources for full delivery of these courses to studnets in isolated small-island nation states (USP has 12 campuses in nations across the Pacific). Face-to-face teaching on various postgraduate and undergraduate courses as and when required.
Responsible for the proper and timely coordination, management and implementation of the project “Meeting the Challenges of Climate Change in the Pacific Islands through Training, Applied Research and Community Engagement”. The project ambit consists of 15 Pacific nations, 11 of which have a USP campus. CCA adaptation plans and activities in 43 communities.
Member of various committees: Research Committee; Academic Standards; Academic Audit (Research); Faculty Programming (designing new undergraduate "Environmental Science" programme); organizing committee for 4 international conferences (Local Governance and Climate Change; Pacific Climate Services Forum; 12th Pacific Science Inter-congress; 2nd International Renewable Energy and Climate Change Conference).
Lecturer at Nottingham Trent University, UK
Lecturing and development of Undergraduate modules: “Sustainability” and “Rural Communities and Planning”. Lecturing on Post Grad MA International Relations: Theories, Practices and Policy. Supervision of undergraduate students; setting & marking coursework. School of Animal, Rural & Environmental Science Research Committee. Secured SPUR funding for research in Tuvalu
Scientific Advisor for Alofa Tuvalu (French-Tuvaluan NGO)
Author of the renewable energy technology component of the 10-year “Small Is Beautiful” project, Tuvalu.
Currently implementing renewable energy related sustainable development/environmental management & adaptation activities in Tuvalu (biogas, biodiesel, gasification, solar pv & thermal, wind). Selected as one of UNESCO’s decade of achievement projects.
Preparing funding proposals & securing funding.
Programme Manager for Cusichaca Trust, UK
Planning projects and devising/implementing/evaluating strategies for natural resource management, sustainable development & adaptation of rural Highland Peru. Major environmental management project - completed in September 2007 - research, agricultural extension and rehabilitation of land, vegetation, Inca terraces & irrigation systems in the Pampachiri District, Peru. Defining and implementing management structures and systems of an NGO with 40 full-time employees. Directing research and funding programmes, securing funding (1,500,000 Euro - EU, DFID & Community Fund).

Qualifications and credentials
PhD – Environmental Systems Modelling, Completed, King’s College London
BSc (Hons) – Applied Biology, Completed, King’s College London
Teaching Cert – Adult and Further Education, Completed, New College Nottingham
Diploma – Biochemistry, Completed, Wolverhampton Polytechnic
Completing MA Pacific Studies (USP), On-going, USP
Linnean Society of London (FLS)
Nottingham Trent University, UK, Visiting Fellow
Government of Tuvalu, Honorary Ambassador: Officer for Environmental Science
English, Excellent, Excellent, Excellent
Work experience
Gender mainstreaming
M & E specialist
Knowledge management specialist
Community development specialist
Proposal writing/Report writing
Community trainer specialist
Capacity building specialist
Environmental and social safeguards specialist
Community Consultation
PACE-SD USP, Project Team Leader, Suva, Fiji, Suva, Fiji, Project Team Leader, Team Leader, Project Team Leader. Leading the 8 million Euro European Union Global Climate Change Alliance Project. Working in 15 P-ACP countries. http://eugcca.us
Nottingham Trent University, Lecturer, United Kingdom, United Kingdom, Lecturer, Lecturing and Developing Undergraduate Modules, Lecturing and development of Undergraduate modules: “Sustainability” and “Rural Communities and Planning”. Lecturing on Post Grad MA International Re
Alofa Tuvalu (French-Tuvaluan NGO), Scientific Advisor, France & Tuvalu, Tuvalu, Advisor, Author of Project, Tuvalu, Author of the renewable energy technology component of the 10-year “Small Is Beautiful” project, Tuvalu. Currently implementing renewable energy relat
Cusichaca Trust, Programme Manager, UK & Peru, UK & Peru, Programme Manager, Planning Projects and Devising/Implementing Strategies for Natural Resource Management, Planning projects and devising/implementing/evaluating strategies for natural resource management, sustainable development & adaptation of rural Highl