eu land rights team
EU Jean Monnet Research Project 
Land administration and EU Development Policy: gender empowerment, food security and climate change resilience
Project Information
Our Team
International Working Group
Dr Jivanta Schöttli
Jivanta Schottli is Assistant Professor in Indian Politics and Foreign Policy at the School of Law and Government, Dublin City University (DCU) and Deputy Director of the Ireland India Institute, also at DCU. She is Principle Investigator for the Project.
She holds a PhD in Political Science (Summa Cum Laude) from Heidelberg University in Germany, a Masters in Economic History and a BSc in International Relations & History, both from the London School of Economics and Politics, UK.
Her research has explored the interconnections between domestic politics and international relations in India's foreign policy, with a focus on geopolitics in South Asia; maritime governance in the Indian Ocean, and the emerging strategic construct of the Indo-Pacific. Publications include Maritime Governance in South Asia (Ed.) World Scientific, Singapore, 2018; Power, Politics and Maritime Governance in the Indian Ocean (ed) Routledge, London 2014; Vision and Strategy in Indian Politics with Routledge, London 2012. She has written articles for Asian Survey, the Institute of South Asian Studies in Singapore, Journal of Asian Public Policy, Journal of the Indian Ocean Region and Irish Studies in International Affairs.
Dr Samiya Selim
Dr. Samiya Selim is an Associate Professor and the Director of Center for Sustainable Development (CSD). She has studied and worked in the UK the past 12 years in the field of environment conservation, climate change and sustainable development. Her specialization is in the areas of ecosystem-based management, sustainable livelihoods, socio-ecological systems, climate change adaptation and resilience, ecosystem services, and science-policy interphase.
Dr. Selim has two Masters in Sustainable Development and Conservation Biology from the University of Leeds and a PhD in Marine Ecology from Animal and Plant Sciences Department, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom. She also has 10 years working experience in research, project management and policy advocacy in the NGO Sector in Bangladesh and England. She has been engaged in collaborative interdisciplinary research projects with DFID, SEI, BUET, and USAID and has several publications in peer-reviewed journals.
Her previous work includes mobilizing hard to reach communities in getting involved in environmental activities – health/nature walks, food growing, conservation volunteering, green jobs, and environmental education. She has also worked in the textile industry in Bangladesh implementing alternate cleaner technology, use of effluent treatment plants and has organized multi stakeholders meeting to discuss issues of environment and health. Dr Selim is interested in pursuing further research on ecosystem based management and building a green economy that focus on solutions for biodiversity, ecosystem and people.
Dr Oliver Scanlan
Oliver Scanlan is a Research Fellow at ULAB’s Center for Sustainable Development. He has a Ph.D. in Politics and International relations from Dublin City University, and a Master’s from the University of Amsterdam, both focusing on customary land and forestry rights in India and Bangladesh.
His research interests include how customary tenure regimes relate to climate change resilience and adaptation measures. He is a Fellow of the Oxford Research Group’s Sustainable Security Program, specializing in climate change and its implications for global security.
He is a member of the UN Environment Program’s Geneva-based Science Policy Platform, in which capacity he presented at the Munich Security Conference in 2018. He has worked for several International NGOs and multilateral organizations, including Oxfam, Save the Children and UN Environment.
Dr Markus Pauli
Dr. Markus Pauli is Lecturer in Public Policy and Sustainability in the School of Law and Government, Dublin City University. He has held positions in the Political Science Department at the National University of Singapore, Yale-NUS Singapore, Singapore Management University, and Heidelberg University, Germany.
His current research focuses on the political economy of decarbonization in a comparative perspective in Asia and Europe. His earlier research projects focused on financial inclusion and microfinance in India, governance of global food value chains in Southeast Asia, global governance and sustainable development.
Markus currently holds a Rising Talent Fellowship at Dublin City University, and previously had scholarships from the Cluster of Excellence ‘Asia and Europe in a Global Context’, Heidelberg University, where he did his PhD and from the Friedrich Ebert Foundation. Markus studied at the Free University, Berlin and the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
He has co-authored work on India´s democracy, socio-economic development, citizenship, and human security as well as on financial inclusion and collaborative governance for the Sustainable Development Goals. His forthcoming book is titled The Political Economy of Microfinance in South Asia in a Comparative Perspective.
Dr Dik Roth
Dik Roth is a social anthropologist and Associate Professor at the Sociology of Development and Change Group of Wageningen University, Wageningen, the Netherlands. He is specifically interested in anthropology of law, policy and development, development studies, land and water rights and policies, and the politics of natural resources governance. Before re-entering academia, he worked as a consultant on land reform and irrigation development in Indonesia. In the same country he did research on land and water rights, irrigation, ethnicity and regional autonomy.
More recently he became increasingly involved in water issues in South Asia (India, Nepal, Bangladesh; land and water rights; technology and institutions in irrigation; urbanization and peri-urban areas), as well as the Netherlands (flood risk management policy; ‘Room for the River’). Between 2014 and 2018 he coordinated a project on water conflicts and climate change in four South Asian peri-urban areas in Bangladesh, India and Nepal, funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) and the UK Department For International Development (DFID) under the research program Conflict and Cooperation in the Management of Climate Change (CCMCC).
