Eleanor is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow within the Sustainability Research Institute at the University of Leeds, and is working on an exciting new project in Malawi. This project investigates the impact of El Nino on Conservation Agriculture, and how climate-smart agricultural techniques fare under current climate extremes. Eleanor’s PhD research took place in a remote area of south-west Tanzania. […]
Lina is currently working on the LiLi (Living Well Within Limits) Project, using participatory workshops to analyse the relationship between energy services and human needs in six different case study countries (UK, Germany, Colombia, Vietnam, Zambia and Nepal). This work builds on her PhD project “Following the ‘golden thread’: exploring the energy dependency of economies […]
Muriel is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University Leeds, in the Sustainability Research Institute (School of Earth and Environment). For her PhD, Muriel explored how private sectors in Europe perceive the risks associated with climate variability and change, in understanding how adaptation decisions are made in the private sector and what these are, as […]
Biography Paul is a Senior Research Fellow and holds a 5 year Early Career Fellowship from the EPSRC, entitled “Applying thermodynamic laws to the energy-GDP decoupling problem”. The fellowship applies thermodynamic laws to examine a national and global problem: how can we decouple primary energy use from economic growth? – i.e reduce energy consumption to help […]
Tim is Professor of Sustainability Transitions at SPRU, University of Sussex. His research explores the technological and social factors relating to the innovation of new energy technologies, the co-evolution of technologies and institutions for a transition to a sustainable low-carbon economy, and relations and interdependencies between energy use and economic growth. He is co-leader of […]
Stephen’s main research interests are the socio-politics of agri-food systems and the multiple priorities and challenges associated with these systems, both in the UK and overseas. He is currently working on a project on documenting change in agricultural practice in the Yorkshire Dales, with particular emphasis on the role of agricultural subsidy reform in guiding these changes. […]
Emma is a Professor of Environment and Development at University of Southampton. She has worked on climate change adaptation since 2001 specifically barriers and limits to institutional adaptation, public-private partnerships for adaptation, and drivers of individual action and national policy on adaptation. She has been a lead author for the IPCC Assessment Report Five, a contributing […]
Andrea is currently a University Academic Fellow. Background After obtaining a BSc Psychology at Lancaster University, Andrea went on to complete an MSc and PhD at the University of Bolton, where her focus of study was the psychology of judgement and decision making under risk. At present she holds a joint post Sustainability Research Institute […]
Anne is Professor of Sustainability and Business, and Pro Dean for Student Education in the Faculty of Environment at the University of Leeds. She is a specialist on corporate social responsibility with respect to development, particularly on ethical and fair trade and the use of private standards. Anne is also Principal Investigator for an ESRC-DFID research […]
Dr. Siu is a lecturer in Environmental Risk Management at the Sustainability Research Institute within the School of Earth and Environment at the University of Leeds. She joined the School in December 1999 as an ESRC funded post-doctoral researcher focusing on development of quality audit tools for Science for environmental policy. She became a Senior […]
