Climate change expert media group
The University of Manchester has a growing list of scientists and academics who can make a valuable contribution to the national discourse.
Please direct all initial enquiries to: media.relations@manchester.ac.uk.
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Dr Jenna Ashton
Lecturer in Heritage Studies
Expertise: Current project ‘Community Climate Resilience through Folk Pageantry’ explores creative approaches to the climate crisis. Expertise covers the use of a wide range of artistic media to explore climate change and adaptation, including use of music and song; crafts and material creations; community performance; collections and archives.
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Professor Stephen Scott-Bottoms
Professor of Contemporary Theatre
Expertise: Use of theatre, performances, improvisation and creative approaches in community settings to explore connections to the natural landscape and the environment, specifically water and watercourses.
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Dr Barnaby Dye
Research Associate at Global Development Institute
Expertise: Specialist in the politics of energy and infrastructure in developing countries, especially Africa.
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Professor Matthew Paterson
Professor of International Politics
Expertise: Specialist in climate change and politics, carbon markets, political economy and global climate governance.
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Professor Grant Allen
Professor in the School of Earth and Environmental Science
Expertise: Specialist in greenhouse gas emissions, satellite measurements, oil and gas sector emissions, natural environment response to climate change, methane emissions.
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Professor Hugh Coe
Professor of Atmospheric Composition / Director of Manchester Environmental Research Institute
Expertise: Specialist in air pollution, atmospheric aerosols and impact on climate change, biomass burning and car emissions.
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Professor Arpana Verma
Clinical Professor of Public Health and Epidemiology / Honorary Consultant to Public Health England (PHE) / expert for World Health Organisation
Expertise: Specialist in climate change and the impact on health, mitigating costs to health, and building resilient health infrastructure.
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Dr Gail Millin-Chalabi
Remote Sensing Technical Lead
Expertise: Specialist in earth observation and wildfires.
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Professor David Schultz
Director of the Centre for Crisis Studies and Mitigation / Professor of Synoptic Meteorology
Expertise: Specialist in climate-induced weather events, resilient infrastructure, changing threats to infrastructure due to climate change, and the interaction between weather and human health, including COVID-19.
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Dr Rob Bellamy
Presidential Fellow in Climate and Society in the Department of Geography
Expertise: Specialist in social science, carbon dioxide removal, negative emissions, carbon removal, greenhouse gas removal, geoengineering, solar geoengineering, solar radiation management, public perception.
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Professor Francis Livens
Director of the Dalton Nuclear Institute
Expertise: Specialist in the potential role of nuclear and hydrogen in our net zero future.
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Professor Timothy Stallard
Professor of Offshore and Renewable Energy Engineering
Expertise: Offshore renewables including tidal stream, wave energy and offshore wind.
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Professor Nigel Scrutton
Professor of Molecular Enzymology
Expertise: Specialist in the engineering of biology to meet net zero targets. Next generation fuels production and carbon capture. Translation and industrialisation of engineering biology technologies.
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Professor Kevin Anderson
Professor of Energy and Climate Change / Deputy Director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
Expertise: Specialist in emissions reductions on a global, national and local level, technology (from powerstations, to EVs, to ‘negative emissions’), social change and equity, who is responsible for emissions, carbon budgets, mitigation rates, ‘net zero’, offsetting, International agreements (e.g. Paris) and national legislation (UK, Scotland, etc).
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Dr Christopher Jones
Knowledge Exchange Fellow at Tyndall Manchester
Expertise: Setting climate change targets, measuring carbon emissions and low carbon energy systems.
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Professor Alice Larkin
Professor of Climate Science and Energy Policy / Head of School of Engineering
Expertise: Specialist in low carbon international transport (shipping and aviation emissions), climate policy, the food-water-energy nexus, energy system decarbonisation, carbon budgets and climate science.
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Professor Carly McLachlan
Professor of Climate and Energy Policy / Director Tyndall Manchester
Expertise: Specialist in how organisations and the public make sense of energy and climate change issues and take action to reduce emissions. Advising policy makers on targets and pathways to zero carbon, transition to net zero, emissions reductions, delivering on Paris Climate agreement, and the decarbonisation of industries including the live music sector.
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Dr Kate Scott
Presidential Fellow in the Environment
Expertise: Specialist in consumption-based emissions accounting which considers environmental impacts driven by consumption and international trade. Advises policy makers on targets and pathways to zero carbon, industrial decarbonisation and informing demand reduction policies.
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Professor James Evans
Professor of Human Geography
Expertise: Specialist in sustainable cities, smart cities, smart technology, clean growth, low traffic neighbourhoods, experimental cities, extreme cities, urban development, urban regeneration, urban health and wellbeing.
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Dr Deljana Iossiofva
Senior Lecturer in Urban Studies / Chair of the Urban Studies Foundation
Expertise: Specialist in sustainability and urban infrastructural transformations in the Global South.
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Dr Josephine Mylan
Lecturer in Sustainability and Innovation
Expertise: Specialist in sustainable food and climate change, low carbon transitions, emissions from food, corporate sustainability.
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Professor Anupam Nanda
Professor of Urban Economics and Real Estate
Expertise: Specialist in property, specifically; policy measures to lower carbon footprint, energy efficiency measures, climate change impact on housing and other property location choice, and Environment, Social and Governance issues for real estate investment.
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Joe Ravetz
Theme Leader on Future-Wise Cities for the Manchester Urban Institute
Expertise: Specialist in climate impacts and adaptation in cities and regions.
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Professor Richard Bardgett
Professor of Ecology
Expertise: Expert in soil ecology, plant-soil interactions and the use of soil as a carbon sink.
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Professor Martin Evans
Head of School of Environment, Education and Development / Professor of Geomorphology
Expertise: Specialist in peatland carbon balance, impact of peatland restoration in the uplands on downstream flood risk, analysis of carbon cycling in upland reservoir systems transformation of particulate and organic carbon in river systems, and upland peatlands and the impact of erosion and restoration on water carbon and pollutant flux.
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Dr Johan Oldekop
Senior Lecturer in Environment and Development
Expertise: Specialist in environment, forestry, conservation, deforestation/reforestation.
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Dr Joanne Tippett
Lecturer in Spatial Planning, Planning and Environmental Management
Expertise: Expert in community and stakeholder engagement and cross-sectoral collaboration. Working in the field of nature restoration and sustainability action, including climate change adaptation. Currently working on nature recovery networks and bringing together environmental planning, arts, health, and wellbeing and education for landscape-level projects.
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Dr Helen Holmes
Lecturer in Sociology
Expertise: Expertise in the sociology of consumption and the circular economy.
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Alejandro Gallego Schmid
Senior Lecturer in Circular Economy and Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment
Expertise: His current research is focused on: i) the role of circular economy to tackle climate change; ii) the implementation of circular economy in renewable sources of energy; iii) circular economy and the informal waste sector in the Global South; and iv) the nexus between circular economy and digitalization.
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Dr Daniel Welch
Lecturer in Sociology
Expertise: Research focussing on the future of consumption, specifically how our shared understandings of consumption are shifting as a result of the climate crisis.
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