I am interested in how people understand and respond to environmental change. As an environmental social scientist, my research focuses on the relationships between individual perceptions and understandings of environmental issues – especially climate change - and responses.  An important component to my work is understanding how and why such responses are enabled or hindered, with a focus on societal and political processes shaping climate futures. My work also encompasses governance of climate change at various societal and geographical levels, both in relation to mitigation and adaptation. I pursue these strands drawing from a variety of social science disciplines through qualitative and quantitative research approaches.

My current research includes societal transformations and low carbon futures (see ESRC-funded CAST centre), the challenges of significant climate mitigation (see ERC-funded 'DeepDCarb' - Deep Decarbonisation: the Democratic Challenge of Navigating Governance Traps’ project), communication and accessibility of climate data in visual form (including work in collaboration with the IPCC), coastal adaptation and resilience (see ARISE project).  I serve on the editorial board of the academic journal Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews (WIREs) Climate Change. I am also member of the Science, Society and Sustainability (3S) Research Group at UEA and of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research. I am UEA lead for the marine systems and society theme in in CCSUS (an interdisciplinary hub for research and engagement between CEFAS and UEA). I also co-lead the ACCESS Task Force on Adaptation and Resilience.

I welcome enquiries from potential PhD students. UEA's research opportunities pages provide details on projects and scholarships. Further information about becoming a Postgraduate Research student at UEA can be found here.

Individual, social and institutional understandings of, and responses to, energy and climate change; participation in decision-making and engagement; sustainability; environmental policy and politics.

Publications: EPrints Digital Repository

Deputy lead of the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Committee, School of Environmental Sciences

Disability Liaison Officer, School of Environmental Sciences

Climate change; coastal change; understandings and responses; engagement; participation; policy and politics.