Helen Coskeran

Helen Coskeran is co-leading component 1 of the uPcycle project with a focus on cross-sectoral stakeholder engagement. Helen has a background in international project and research management in the academic, non-profit and private sectors, most recently as programme manager of GCRF programme AFRICAP at the University of Leeds. AFRICAP was a £9-million interdisciplinary programme aiming to make agriculture and food systems in sub-Saharan Africa more climate-resilient. Within this, Helen led on all capacity-strengthening and knowledge exchange activities which involved communicating on research outcomes with policy audiences in South Africa, Malawi, Zambia and Tanzania.