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Postgraduate students with an interest in climate change involved in the Priestley Climate Scholars programme of engagement and professional development.
Priestley Scholars
| Name | School | Job title | Areas of expertise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alisha Ault | Earth and Environment | PhD researcher | Just transition, energy transition, adaptation and mitigation, critical minerals |
| Fanhui Dong | Earth and Environment | PhD researcher | Disaster and community-based disaster management |
| Mawaddah Ghazali | LUBS | Postgraduate Researcher | Healthcare Organisation resilience-adaptation |
| Elena Gibson | Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies | PhD candidate | Heritage futures |
| Emma Haglund | POLIS | Postgraduate researcher | Climate Governance and Justice in the Asia Pacific Region |
| Molly Hammond | Earth & Environment | PhD Student | Cryosphere (Ice speed & AI: Using satellite data and machine learning to detect change on the Greenland ice sheet) |
| Md Sakib Hossain | Mechanical Engineering | Doctoral researcher | Carbon Capture and Storage, Energy Transition, Green Hydrogen |
| Amanda Joynes | Design | Postgraduate researcher | Garment durability/longevity/circularity |
| Kylie Kay | Civil Engineering | Provisional PhD | Indoor air quality, environmental justice, and net-zero transitions |
| James Latham | Earth and Environment | Postgraduate Researcher | Energy demand reduction |
| Bowen Li | International Business | Postgraduate researcher | How firms’ sustainability performance transmits into financing outcomes through green bond issuance and pricing, and how formal and informal institutions condition this process. |
| Wenting Li | Civil Engineering | PhD researcher | Adaptive facades buildings and control system |
| Rose McCarthy | Chemistry | PhD researcher | Carbon capture |
| Elizabeth McGowan | Politics and International Studies | PhD researcher | Decolonising climate change adaptation and natural resource management: including indigenous knowledge in international development approaches to combat climate vulnerability. |
| Megan Pickles | Institute for Transport Studies | Provisional PhD Student | Governance of energy demand reduction; environmental justice; participatory decision-making; place-based approaches to decarbonisation; policy alignment |
| Sheylla Sulca | Earth & Environment | Postgraduate researcher | Climate services, adaptation to climate change, decadal climate prediction |
| Kulankana Theivendrarajah | Geography | Postgraduate Researcher | GHGs |
| Shariq Waheed | Sociology & Social Policy | Postgraduate Researcher | Environmental Sociology, Climate Futures, Environmental Behavior, Youth & Environment |
| Ruth Williams | Geography | Postgraduate researcher |