Dr Camilla Audia

Contact details

Email: Camilla dot Audia at warwick dot ac dot uk

Office Hours (term time):

For all office hours, please book a slot here. You can book office hours up to 15 days in advance - so if you can't find anything, wait a little longer before trying again.
In term 3, I will hold office hours primarily online, Wednesdays and Fridays 11.30am-12.30pm.
I will not hold office hours between March 31 and April 23.
Office hours will be online only in term 3 unless otherwise agreed.

Assistant Professor

Biography

I grew up across Italy, Senegal and Burkina Faso and after staying in Europe for what felt like a very long time (15 years!) I spent a year in Burkina Faso as part of my PhD research (SOAS, 2018), where I investigated how people were managing land and resources during El Nino and La Nina phenomena. I was a researcher at King's College London for 7 years, working on various project at the Geography department, before joining the University of Warwick in August 2022. Throughout doctoral and post-doctoral research, I engaged with non-academic audiences, local and international NGOs and policy actors in West Africa and the UK.

I examine the relations between climate change, populations, health and sustainable development through the co-production of knowledge. I am interested in using arts-based and embodied methods (photography, film, theatre, role-play, dance...) to tackle 'wicked problems' and challenge traditional dynamics in the society-policy-science nexus.

Teaching

Health and Sustainable Development (GD204, GD209 and GD212) - second years
Addressing Disasters for Sustainable. Development with Dr Vangelis Pitidis (GD325) - finalists

Research

After completing my PhD on land tenure and natural resource management in Burkina Faso, I worked on a DFID-funded resilience to climate extremes project (2015-2017) in Burkina Faso (again!) and Ethiopia, then explored Mossi local knowledge on climate and weather through a NERC fellowship (2017-2018) and decision-making under uncertainty in Senegal on a DFID/NERC-funded project (2018-2019). In 2019-2022, I explored equitable access to health through the Wellcome Trust-funded Pathways to Equitable Healthy Cities project across London, Vancouver, Accra, Tamale and Beijing.

Currently, I am collaborating on the PATH project (2024-2027), led by Carleton University (Ottawa) and in partnership with King's College London, Brunel University and the Greater London Authority, we are working on the London case-study of the project, looking at how climate change adaptation is perceived by irregular migrants in the City.

Ph.D. Supervision

Please note that, due to current supervisory commitments, I am only able to consider 2 students for graduate research (Ph.D.) supervision commencing in 2025/26. Please contact the GSD Graduate Office for further advice, if you have not done so already.

Selected Publications

Peer-reviewed

Maccaro, A., Audia, C., Stokes, K., Masud, H., Sekalala, S., Pecchia, L. and Piaggio, D., 2023, September. Pandemic Preparedness: A Scoping Review of Best and Worst Practices from COVID-19. In Healthcare (Vol. 11, No. 18, p. 2572). MDPI. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11182572
Jerin, D.T., Sara, H.H., Radia, M.A., Hema, P.S., Hasan, S., Urme, S.A., Audia, C., Hasan, M.T. and Quayyum, Z., 2022. An overview of progress towards implementation of solid waste management policies in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Heliyon. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e08918
Audia, C., Berkhout, F., Owusu, G. et al. Loops and Building Blocks: a Knowledge co-Production Framework for Equitable Urban Health. J Urban Health 98, 394–403 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11524-021-00531-4
Audia C. et al. Decision-Making Heuristics for Managing Climate-Related Risks: Introducing Equity to the FREE Framework. In: Conway D., Vincent K. (eds) Climate Risk in Africa. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61160-6_4
Pineo, H., Audia, C., Black, D. et al. Building a Methodological Foundation for Impactful Urban Planetary Health Science. J Urban Health 98, 442–452 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11524-020-00463-5
McOmber, Audia, Crowley. Building resilience by challenging social norms: integrating a transformative approach within the BRACED consortia. Disasters 43 (2019): S271-S294. https://doi.org/10.1111/disa.12341
Poole, Audia et al. Tree products, food security and livelihoods: a household study of Burkina Faso, Environmental Conservation, 43(4), pp. 359–367 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1017/S0376892916000175

Policy papers

Audia, C & Berkhout, F (2020), Linking knowledge development, uptake and use wth action: a literature review: Report for the European Environment Agency.
Audia, C., Poole N., et al. (2016) Access to and utilisation of three tree products in Burkina Faso. Report to FAO, Rome.