Profile

Biography

Annemarieke joined SEI from the Department of Social Policy and Social Work at the University of York where she worked with Meg Huby, Piran White and Steve Cinderby on the project 'Social and environmental inequalities in rural areas of England'. For this she was mainly involved in GIS analysis and organizing and running focus groups on perceptions of injustice. She has since worked with Steve and Jennie Barron on the IWMI project Agriculture Water Management Solutions in Tanzania, Burkina Faso and India, undertaking baseline assessments and scenario analyses using Participatory GIS techniques. For the same project she looked at monitoring and evaluation of agricultural water management interventions. Currently she is the York centre node for the Planning, Monitoring, Evaluation and Communication (PMEC) system, helping to develop it further and supporting staff in using it.

She has done some teaching for the environment department for the course 'Environmental law and policy' and as part of the NERC Ecosystem Services and Poverty Alleviation project in the Sahel she ran a training course on Participatory GIS in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. She is also involved in the OPen Air Laboratories (OPAL) project undertaking participatory mapping with primary school children and teaching them how to use Google Earth.

Annemarieke has an MSc in Tropical Land Use, specialized in erosion, soil and water conservation and an MSc in GIS, both from Wageningen University, the Netherlands. Her research interests are: sustainable rural development and natural resource management; information flows of projects and organisations ; monitoring and evaluation systems of watershed management projects; and the use of geographic information systems (GIS) in such a way that it facilitates learning.

Research

Current projects

• Agricultural Water Management Interventions

Publications

Full publications list

• 2010, Mikhail, M. and A. de Bruin and D. de Condappa (2010). Agricultural Water Management and Livelihoods in the Jaldhaka Watershed in West Bengal, India. SEI.
• 2010, Cinderby, S., A. De Bruin, B. Mbilinyi, J. Barron and V. Kongo (2010). Participatory Geographic Information Systems for Agricultural Water Management Scenario Development: A Tanzanian Case Study. 11th WaterNet/WARFSA/GWP-SA Symposium, Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, 27-28 October.
• 2010, Annemarieke de Bruin, Mikhail, M., Noel, S., Barron, J. (2010) AWM Interventions and Monitoring and Evaluation: Potential Approaches at the Watershed Level. SEI project report, Stockholm, SEI.
• 2010, Annemarieke de Bruin, Piran C L White, Steve Cinderby, Meg Huby "Social and environmental inequalities and injustice in the rural upland areas of England" Critical Social Policy 31 (2) 266-284
• 2009, Piran C L White, Steve Cinderby, Dave Raffaelli, Annemarieke de Bruin, Alison Holt, Meg Huby " Enhancing the effectiveness of policy-relevant integrative research in rural areas" Area 41 (4) 414-424
• 2009, Meg Huby, Steve Cinderby, Piran C L White, Annemarieke de Bruin, "Measuring inequality in rural England: the effects of changing spatial resolution" Environment and Planning A 41(12) 3023-3037
• 2007, Jan De Graaff, J. C., Samran Sombatpanit, Christian Pieri, Jim Woodhill, Ed. with assistance of Annemarieke de Bruin. "Monitoring and evaluation of soil conservation and watershed development projects", Enfield, NH: Science Publishers