Roland Smith

Roland is Leverhulme Trust Doctoral Scholar in the Critical Decade for Climate Change programme at University of East Anglia (UEA) / Tyndall Centre for Climate Change. His research focuses on the understanding this impact of climate change on patterns of migration and population displacement.

Roland has two decades of experience working in the arts and cultural sector, most notably as Founder and co-Artistic Director of Theatre Deli, a leading arts charity that pioneered new approaches to embedding support for arts and culture – particularly emerging artists and theatre-makers – in commercial business. Roland was also a writer, theatre director, script editor, and cultural festival curator, and was Visiting Lecturer at the National Centre for Circus Arts and Rose Bruford College of Theatre Performance.