Our sincerest congratulations to Colleen Cranmer for her success in winning a SSHRC Doctorate Fellowship. Colleen will be conducting research as part of the Dried Fish Matters project in Cambodia. Her current working title is ” The Dried Fish Economy in the Tonlé Sap Region of Cambodia. Understanding How Women Contribute to Rural Livelihood Resiliency in an Uncertain and Changing Environment”.
Colleen’s research will explore the dried fish economy in Cambodia; to understand how household livelihoods depend upon dried fish and what this could mean for their future under changing and uncertain conditions. Her research will use socio-ecological resilience thinking embedded with a gendered analysis to deepen the understanding of how socio-ecological changes affect different groups and the complexity of gender relations, power, and agency amongst resource users. The research will take place at Tonlé Sap Lake and Floodplain, one of the world’s most productive, fish-abundant freshwater ecosystems. The Lake is experiencing numerous anthropogenic stressors, limiting livelihood capabilities for the millions of Cambodians living in the region. Fieldwork will include interviews with local people currently involved in fish processing, those who have left fish processing, and market questionnaires with those selling dried fish products.