PhD Candidate
DHMP, DipPM, BSC,MEnvMgt
| Contact Campus | Off-Campus |
| Telephone | +61 423 730 294 |
| Kiros.Hiruy@utas.edu.au |
Kiros is a Development Anthropologist with Agricultural science and Environmental management training. His research interests include community development and empowerment, migration and settlement. As a development practitioner, Kiros has worked with communities, governments and non-governmental organisations in Africa and Australia and his experience over the last two decades has spanned from International Development, Food Security, Natural Resource Management, Sustainable Farming, to Environmental and Project Management.
Kiros is also a trained practitioner in participatory learning approaches (PLA) and Social Return on Investment (SROI) and he uses anthropological methodologies and participatory approaches in his work.
Kiros is currently a PhD candidate at the Institute for Regional Development and his doctoral study is on bottom-up social empowerment and inclusion in Australia.