About Me:
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 an Adjunct Researcher and Lecturer at the Institute for Regional Development and School of Land and Food at the University of Tasmania.
Area(s) of Training
anthropology, applied anthropology, ethnography, other
Area(s) of Expertise
International development, Migration and development, Community empowerment, Food security, Africans communities in Diaspora
Current Area of Employment
University, Consultancy