Nirad Abrol

PhD student

Research Overview

Nirad is a geographer with an interest in the development of education in revolutionary situations and by revolutionary organisations particularly in Africa and the Americas.Nirad’s PhD project explores, using mixed methods, educational resilience to climate extremes in Brazil, focusing on Amazonian school communities affected by severe droughts and floods. The study adopts a Freire-inspired, activist approach, viewing resilience as a negotiated process shaped by social struggles, politics, and local realities.This will involve fieldwork with communities in the Brazilian Amazon, hosted by the Mamirauá Institute for Sustainable Development