Dr Ruth E. Sylvester
- Position: Research Fellow in Water and Health Governance
- Areas of expertise: water governance; water insecurity; water poverty; sanitation systems; networked infrastructures; public health; healthcare resilience.
- Email: R.Sylvester@leeds.ac.uk
- Website: LinkedIn | Googlescholar | Researchgate | ORCID
Profile
My PhD is in Civil Engineering, focused on water and sanitation supplies, governance and hidden insecurities in England and Wales. I am interested in how governance acts upon networked infrastructures to produce distinct distributions and flows in socio-technical systems such as water, sanitation and health.
My postdoctoral research position is based in two international projects – RESHAPE on healthcare systems resilience to extreme weather events and WASH Systems for Health on systems thinking in global water, sanitation and hygiene programming.
Qualifications
- PhD in Civil Engineering, University of Leeds
- MSc in International Water and Sanitation Engineering, Loughborough University
- BSC in Chemistry, University College London (UCL)