Kent Law School doctoral research student Mia Tamarin has secured a grant of \u00a32,200 for fieldwork research in Israel and Palestine.<\/p>\n
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Mia\u00a0began her PhD in Law at Kent in 2016. Her research investigates how the law\/capitalism nexus shapes our understanding and management of water. The PhD Fieldwork Grant<\/span><\/a>, awarded by the Socio-Legal Study Association, will enable Mia to ground her theoretical framework within a case-study on the use and management of water in Israel and Palestine. She plans to conduct semi-structured interviews with government officials and leading NGO executives involved with different levels of water policy-making, in both countries.<\/span><\/p>\n Mia pays particular attention in her research to a process she describes as \u2018water commodification\u2019 and will be looking to see how this process manifests in the conflict over water in Palestine-Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n In addition to being hugely instrumental in enabling Mia to undertake the fieldwork element of her project, Mia says the grant will also enable her to pursue the socio-legal dimension of her research more solidly overall.<\/span><\/p>\n