Dr Kirsty Carden
Position:
- Senior Research Officer
- Research Coordinator – Future Water Research Institute
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Office:
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Room 3.31, New Engineering Building; UCT Upper Campus
Qualifications:
- BSc (Chemistry), University of Cape Town 1984
- MSc (App Sci in Civ Eng), University of Cape Town, 2006
- PhD (Civil Engineering), University of Cape Town, 2013
Professional Affiliations:
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Fellow of Water Institute of South Africa (WISA)
Undergraduate Teaching:
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CIV4044S (Research project)
Postgraduate Teaching:
- CIV5107Z (Integrated urban water management)
- APG4021F (Urban infrastructure)
- IARU Global Summer Programme (Sustainable water management in Africa)
Research Affiliations:
Publication Profile:
Research Interests:
- Urban water management and service provision in a South African context.
- Sustainability assessment in water management.
- Integrated approaches geared towards sustainable urban development and water sensitive cities.
- Communities of practice and social learning related to water sensitive design.
Current Research Projects:
- Project Leader for WRC Project K5/2413: Development and management of a Water Sensitive Design Community of Practice programme (2014-2021).
- Researcher for WRC Project K5/2526: Viability of urban stormwater ponds as water resources in Cape Town (2016-2019).
- Researcher for Royal Society International Collaboration award (with Coventry University): Determining the performance of large biofiltration cells in treating contaminated runoff from a slum settlement and its reuse for urban food production (2017-2020).
- Researcher for WRC Project K5/2801: Liveable neighbourhoods with water as foremost priority: Redesigning an existing neighbourhood using Water Sensitive Design (2018-2022).
- Project leader for DANIDA Fellowship Centre Window 2 project: Pathways to water resilient South African cities (2019-2021).
