People
Postgraduate students with an interest in climate change involved in the Priestley Climate Scholars programme of engagement and professional development.
| Name | School | Job title | Areas of expertise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flora Brocza | School of Chemical and Process Engineering | PhD student | Clean energy: Sustainable materials for pollution reduction and energy storage |
| Lauren Burton | Earth and Environment | PhD Researcher | The climate of the Pliocene and understanding its relevance for the 1.5C world. |
| Connor Clayton | Earth and Environment / Physics | Priestley PhD researcher (2020 intake) | |
| Gregory Cooke | Physics and Astronomy | PhD researcher | Researching early Earth's climate as well as exoplanet atmospheres. Understanding how different types of chemistry can affect equilibrium temperature |
| Alice Garvey | Earth and Environment | PhD Researcher | Spatially just energy transitions; climate change mitigation towards net zero; regional decarbonisation; industrial decarbonisation policy |
| Catherine Graves | Earth and Environment | PhD researcher | My project is on "the role of virtual reality to catalyse pro-environmental behaviour change", and links to climate change mitigation measures |
| Leonie Hyde-Smith | Civil Engineering | PhD researcher | Climate resilience of urban water and sanitation services; Affordability of "climate proof" urban water and sanitation services; Costs of adaptation |
| Ruth Joo | Earth and Environment | PhD researcher | Linkage of Global Carbon Markets |
| James Lester | Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies | PhD Researcher | Artist interpretation of nuclear disaster; conveying deep-time environmental, climate and nuclear issues through visual and conceptual art |
| Katerina Liontou | English / Business | Priestley PhD researcher (2018 intake) | |
| Isobel Lloyd | Geography | PhD Researcher | Quantifying N2O and CO2 fluxes from agricultural soils; identifying sustainable farming practices to minimise climate impacts; advising policy makers |
| Alesia Ofori | Politics and International Studies (POLIS) | PhD Researcher | Rural governance; Political Ecology of water; Micropolitics and the extractive industry in West Africa |
| Peter Petkovsek | Performance and Cultural Industries | PhD Researcher | Geomythology, Cultural and Performative Responses to Climate Crisis |
| Santosa Sandy Putra | Geography | PhD researcher | Tropical Peatlands; River Restoration; Hydrology; Extreme Weather; Remote Sensing |
| Kate Sambrook | Earth and Environment / Business | Priestley PhD researcher (2019 intake) | |
| Jillian Schacher | Earth and Environment | Priestley PhD researcher (2018 intake) | |
| Benjamin Skinner | Performance and Cultural Industries | PhD researcher | Touch as a means of communicating our current climate crisis; The (potential) sensory perception of skin |
| Oliver Stanfield | Chemistry | PhD researcher | Carbon Capture and Storage for industrial sites e.g. powerplants with new solvents with better qualities than current technology |
| Megan Tresise | Biology / Earth and Environment | Priestley PhD researcher (2019 intake) | |
| Josh Turner | Civil Engineering | PhD researcher | Using System Data to Reduce GHG Emissions from Heat Pumps in Operation (Heat pumps are a low carbon method of space/water heating and cooling) |
| Christopher Walker | Civil Engineering | PhD Researcher | Geotechnical Engineering; Transport Infrastructure; Highways; Railway; Compacted Soils; Unsaturated Soil Mechanics; Earthworks; Embankments; Cuttings |
| Sibongile Zimba | Biology | PhD researcher | Climate change adaptation and resilience; developing of climate resilient crops for sustainable food production systems |