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Research Fellow in WASH, gender and social inclusion, Monash University

Dr Naomi Francis has 10 years’ experience working as a researcher, engineer and educator in international water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), gender and development and Australian water management. Dr Francis is currently a research fellow at the Monash Sustainable Development Institute (Monash University). There, she is working on an Australian government funded project focusing on the gender and social inclusion aspects of the Revitalising Informal Settlements and their Environments (RISE) project in Indonesia and Fiji.

Dr Francis completed her PhD at the University of Melbourne’s Nossal Institute for Global Health, which was about WASH in remote villages in Timor-Leste. She combined her PhD research with WASH research consulting in South Asia and the Pacific and in 2019 did post-doctoral research about at the University of Melbourne’s School of Social and Political Sciences to investigate ‘MAMPU’: a women’s empowerment program in Indonesia. She has a Bachelor of Environmental Engineering and Arts with honours in Development Studies from the University of Melbourne.

Experience

  • –present
    Research Fellow in WASH, gender and social inclusion, Monash University

Education

  • 2020 
    University of Melbourne, PhD in Global Health