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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beverley Adams | Performance and Cultural Industries | PhD researcher | Pedagogies of puppetry practice in climate change activism |
| Susan Ann Samuel | Politics and International Studies | PhD researcher | International female leadership driving international normative change in response to the climate crisis |
| Samuel Birch | Chemical and Process Engineering | PhD researcher | Decarbonisation |
| Philip Churchman | Institute for Transport Studies | PhD researcher | Road freight decarbonisation |
| 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 |
| Dominique Hirsz | Biology | PhD researcher | Effect of temperature of wheat floral development |
| Arundhati Kalyan | Earth and Environment | PhD researcher | Large-scale atmospheric and climate dynamics, tropical basin interactions, teleconnections, seasonal to decadal climate variability and prediction |
| Kate Morris | Design | PhD researcher | Sustainable fashion, reducing carbon and water usage within the fashion industry |
| Sarah Oakes | Earth and Environment | PhD researcher | Indigenous knowledge, food |
| Jasper Rees | Biology | PhD researcher | Environmental stress, biodiversity loss, insects, fertility limits |
| Clifford Richardson | Civil Engineering | PhD researcher | Long term sea level rise and coastal infrastructure resilience. |
| Blaise Sales | English | PhD researcher | Ecocriticism in world-literature |
| Kate Simpson | English, and Earth and Environment | PhD researcher | Extinction studies, role of literature in the interpretation of mass extinction events, poetry as a paleontologist, reading as an ecological act |
| 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 |
| Solomon White | Earth and Environment | PhD researcher | Oceanography, Satellite remote sensing, Ocean properties |
| Dewa Ayu Putu Eva Wishanti | Politics and International Studies | PhD researcher | Water and sanitation, climate finance, political ecology |