Travel and Learning Award for Durgeshree Raman
Borrin Foundation Travel and Learning Award
Durgeshree’s plan
Having completed her doctoral studies titled “Transboundary Freshwater Governance: Threats, Gaps and Challenges”, Dr Durgeshree Raman is keen to expand her expertise in understanding the growing threats to freshwater resources especially climate change, and the various responses at local, regional, and international levels to manage those threats and develop better governance practices, including both innovative solutions and indigenous approaches. She will use the Borrin Travel and Learning Award to attend the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law Annual Colloquium in India and the International Water Association’s World Water Congress and Exhibition in Toronto in 2024. These trips will provide Durgeshree with a unique opportunity to network with international water experts (legal and non-legal) from all over the world, and to share and expand her knowledge base focusing especially in the area of indigenous approaches to freshwater governance, strengthening local stakeholder participation and improving legal frameworks to address the growing threats to freshwater resources, that would be of benefit to responding to not just threats to transboundary freshwater resources but the rivers of Aotearoa New Zealand as well.
About Durgeshree
Dr Durgeshree Raman is a Lecturer and Co-Director of the Waikato Public Law and Policy Research Unit at Te Piringa – Faculty of Law at the University of Waikato. She is also an enrolled Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand, a (judicial) Member of the Alcohol Regulatory and Licencing Authority and Member of the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law. Post completing her doctoral studies in transboundary freshwater governance, Durgeshree has taught a variety of law papers including Equity and Succession, Family Law, Crimes, Evidence, Legal Systems and Method. She has also published in the areas of environmental law, human rights law and corporate social responsibility and is currently keen to expand her growing expertise in freshwater-related issues. Previously, Durgeshree has worked as a Solicitor and Judges’ Research Counsel.
Grant Amount
$10,000 in 2024 to support travel
“This Award gives me a unique opportunity to network with world leading experts on freshwater issues and gain insights into legal developments and pragmatic solutions including indigenous approaches abroad, that would be of immense benefit to my research in this area.”