Research Assistantship

Key Responsibilities:

• Investigated key challenges through informant interviews and identified suitable, low-cost sensor technologies (e.g., temperature, humidity, ammonia) for local adoption by women-led agricultural microenterprises.

• Conducted the literature review process, synthesizing over 150+ academic papers to identify existing climate vulnerabilities faced by various microenterprises and inform the project's direction.

• Coordinated and executed fieldwork, collecting baseline survey data from 450+ microenterprises across the poultry, horticulture, and aquaculture sectors in five rural districts.

• Collaborated with an interdisciplinary team of experts in poultry science, horticulture, fisheries, and social sciences to assess challenges and design the project's intervention.

• Analyzed baseline survey data, leading to the strategic selection of the poultry sector for the Phase-2 intervention study based on high female involvement and vulnerability to climate impacts.

• Assisting in the recruitment and enrollment of 300 participants (Owner/Co-owner) of poultry sector by applying specific inclusion and exclusion criteria and obtaining written informed consent. 

• Will collect and analyze farm-level energy consumption, water usage, and water quality data. This information will be used to calculate resource efficiency per kilogram of chicken and to map the findings across the study regions.

Undergraduate Thesis & Project