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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Samuel Birch | Chemical and Process Engineering | PhD researcher | Decarbonisation |
| Flora Brocza | School of Chemical and Process Engineering | PhD researcher | 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. |
| Philip Churchman | Institute for Transport Studies | PhD researcher | Road freight decarbonisation |
| Connor Clayton | Earth and Environment / Physics | Priestley PhD researcher (2020 intake) | |
| William Evans | Earth and Environment | PhD researcher | Monitoring the responses of insect communities to climate change using radar technology; Improving climate/meteorological forecasting by isolating and removing insect 'noise' within weather radar data |
| Alice Garvey | Earth and Environment | PhD Researcher | Spatially just energy transitions; climate change mitigation towards net zero; regional decarbonisation; industrial decarbonisation policy |
| Dominique Hirsz | Biology | PhD researcher | Effect of temperature of wheat floral development |
| Isobel Lloyd | Geography | PhD Researcher | Quantifying N2O and CO2 fluxes from agricultural soils; identifying sustainable farming practices to minimise climate impacts; advising policy makers |
| Peter Petkovsek | Performance and Cultural Industries | PhD Researcher | Geomythology, Cultural and Performative Responses to Climate Crisis |
| Clifford Richardson | Civil Engineering | PhD researcher | Long term sea level rise and coastal infrastructure resilience. |
| Blaise Sales | English | PhD researcher | Ecocriticism in world-literature |
| Vanessa Ternes | Institute for Transport Studies | PhD researcher | I research how the transport sector can decarbonise and meet its emission targets while considering questions of fairness and equity |
| Megan Tresise | Biology / Earth and Environment | Priestley PhD researcher (2019 intake) | |
| Christopher Walker | Civil Engineering | PhD Researcher | Geotechnical Engineering; Transport Infrastructure; Highways; Railway; Compacted Soils; Unsaturated Soil Mechanics; Earthworks; Embankments; Cuttings |
| Solomon White | Earth and Environment | PhD researcher | Oceanography, Satellite remote sensing, Ocean properties |
| Dewa Ayu Putu Eva Wishanti | Politics and International Studies | PhD student | Water and sanitation, climate finance, political ecology |
| Sibongile Zimba | Biology | PhD researcher | Plant science, climate change adaptation and resilience; developing of climate resilient crops for sustainable food production systems |