Dr Camilla Audia
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Email: Camilla dot Audia at warwick dot ac dot uk |
| Room: R3.33 (Ramphal Building) |
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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 with Dr Ed Loveman (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 three research projects:
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. It is funded by the New Frontier Joint Initiative and, locally, UKRI-ESRC.
I am also working on the Co-producing knowledge on neighbourhood heat and its impacts on child mental health and cognition project (2025-2029), funded by CIHR (Canadian Institute of Health Research) and in partnership with McGill University (Montreal) and University of Ghana. Leading on the co-production aspects, my research will involve contextualising factors and co-producing knowledge to re-design future epidemiological "strengths and difficulties questionnaires" by engaging with children, their parents and guardians, school staff, and any other societal partners that may emerge.
I am also part of the Nature in the City project led by Vangelis Pitidis (Warwick IGSD) in partnership with Coventry City Council. We will be working on developing a radical map of Green and Blue Infrastructure (GBI) in Coventry that incorporates spatial and non-spatial data, including perceptions, emotions, and governance structures to enhance understanding and future planning. We aim to engage citizens in participatory mapping and co-production processes to ensure diverse perspectives, values, and lived experiences as well as buy-in and uptake of any Coventry City Council (CCC) planning strategies. We will assess accessibility and barriers to GBI use and management to identify social, spatial, and institutional constraints affecting GBI engagement, particularly in marginalised communities, to feed into CCC future strategies. Finally, we hope to inform policy and decision-making processes. We will support CCC in integrating citizen-led data into conservation and planning strategies by setting up processes and strategies that can be sustainably replicated in the future by the Council.
Ph.D. Supervision
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.
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Audia, C., Poole N., et al. (2016) Access to and utilisation of three tree products in Burkina Faso. Report to FAO, Rome.