Adaptation & Resilience: Projects and Researchers
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Dr Soroush AbolfathiLink opens in a new window
Assistant Professor in Water and Environmental Engineering, School of Engineering
Email:Soroush.Abolfathi@warwick.ac.uk
Research interests
Pollution transport in the environment (solute and microplastics). Resilient infrastructures to natural hazards, climate change and flooding.
Microplastics transport and mixing mechanisms in the nearshore region
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Dr Sam Adelman
Reader, School of Law
Email:s.adelman@warwick.ac.uk
Research interests
Legal Theory, development and human rights, climate change and development.
A legal paradigm shift towards climate justice in the Anthropocene
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Professor David Anderson
Professor of African History, Department of History
Email:D.M.Anderson@warwick.ac.uk
Research interests
Land, water, community resilience and rural development in eastern Africa.
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Professor Gary BendingLink opens in a new window
Professor of Environmental Microbiology, School of Life Sciences
Email:Gary.Bending@warwick.ac.uk
Research interests
The structure, diversity and function of microbial communities inhabiting plants, soil and water. We work across a range of natural and agricultural systems, and integrate a variety of 'omics approaches, often within an interdisciplinary context. Key project:Extreme rainfall: Unravelling the importance of new climate-rhizosphere feedbacks across contrasting land use systems. NERC 2017-2019. Link opens in a new window
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Professor Tim BuggLink opens in a new window
Professor of Biological Chemistry, Department of Chemistry
Email:T.D.Bugg@warwick.ac.uk
Research interests
The microbial conversion of biopolymer lignin, found in plant biomass, into renewable chemicals. The discovery of novel bacterial enzymes for lignin degradation and metabolic engineering of bacterial lignin degraders to produce target bio products.
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Dr Morten Fibieger Byskov
Research Fellow, Politics and International Studies
Email:morten.byskov@warwick.ac.uk
Research interests
Ethical issues in international development with a particular interest in climate adaptation. Indigenous knowledge in climate adaptation planning. Climate-related health risks in urban informal settlements.
An agenda for ethics and justice in adaptation to climate change
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Dr Dave ChandlerLink opens in a new window
Associate Professor, School of Life Sciences
Email:Dave.Chandler@warwick.ac.uk
Research and teaching interests
The relationship between ecosystems and environmental change. Dr Chandler runs an MSc module Bioscience, Politics and Social Acceptability which looks at critical themes involving science, the environment and society, and addresses such as why human society is not doing enough to tackle the global environmental crisis. Integrated Pest Management approaches for more sustainable crop production, including the development and use of biological control solutions that enable reductions in use of synthetic chemical pesticides for biodiversity gains and other environmental benefits. I also have active research on pollinator biology, including honeybee health and the use of bumblebees as commercial crop polinators. Most of his work is strategic or applied, and he works closely with farmers, growers and biocontrol companies.
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Professor Bo ChenLink opens in a new window
Professor of Operational Research and Management Science, Warwick Business School
Email:Bo.Chen@wbs.ac.uk
Research interests
Sustainability and closed-loop supply chain coordination.
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Professor Jon Coaffee
Professor in Urban Geography, Department of Politics and International Studies
Email:J.Coaffee@Warwick.ac.uk
Research interests
The politics and practices of resilience.
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Professor Rosemary Collier
Professor, School of Life Sciences
Email:Rosemary.Collier@warwick.ac.uk
Research interests
Rosemary's main research interest is in the development and application of Integrated Pest Management strategies for horticultural crops. This includes approaches for adaptation to, and mitigation of, climate change with regard to pest management practices. She has developed a number of models that use weather data to predict pest phenology and these can also be used to predict the impact of climate change.
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Dr Ritabrata DuttaLink opens in a new window
Assistant Professor of Statistics, Department of Statistics
Email:Ritabrata.Dutta@warwick.ac.uk
Research interests
Prediction and assessment of extreme climate events.(2019-2020): Alan Turing Institute, UK,PIat Warwick University ‘Quantifying effects of climate change on extreme weather events via distributional downscaling’.
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Dr Richard EverittLink opens in a new window
Associate Professor in Statistics, Department of Statistics
Email:richard.everitt@warwick.ac.uk
Research interests
My research is in methodology for Bayesian computation, applied to problems in statistical genetics, neuroscience, ecology, weather and climate, spatial statistics, network analysis and signal processing.
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Dr Dan FowlerLink opens in a new window
Research Fellow, WMG
Email:Dan.Fowler@warwick.ac.uk
Research interests
Research into sensor cyber resilience. Novel designs for software, computer systems, and protocols. Cyber resilience of systems. How can software be made trustworthy with reduced complexity? Simplicity can reduce the security problem, reduce costs, and lead to more reuse of software and hardware.
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Dr Xueyu Geng
Associate Professor, School of Engineering
Email:Xueyu.Geng@warwick.ac.uk
Research interests
- Ground Improvement: vertical drain, geosynthetic reinforcement, biopolymer reinforcement
- Soil Dynamics: soil dynamic testing & numerical modelling
- Geohzards: landslides, slope stability, debris flow
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Professor Robin GoodwinLink opens in a new window
Department of Psychology
Email:Robin.Goodwin@warwick.ac.uk
Research interests
Effective communication and psychological response to major weather events, and broader topics on resilience on natural threats.
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Dr Erin Gorsich
Assistant Professor, School of Life Sciences
Email:Erin.Gorsich@warwick.ac.uk
Research interests
How climate change influences vector abundance, distribution, and vector borne disease.
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Professor Nathan Griffiths
Professor, Department of Computer Science
Email:Nathan.Griffiths@warwick.ac.uk
Research interests
Anthropogenic Global Catastrophic Risk.
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Dr Marco HaenssgenLink opens in a new window
Assistant Professor in Global Sustainable Development, School for Cross-faculty Studies
Email:marco.haenssgen@warwick.ac.uk
Research Interests
Mixed-methods researcher in development studies, focusing geographically on Asia and thematically on human behaviour and policy implementation in contexts of marginalisation and societal change (e.g. technology diffusion). The social context of antimicrobial resistance (a global health priority), exploring rural healthcare-seeking behaviours, how people understand antibiotics and illness, their constraints in accessing healthcare, and the intended and unintended consequences of health interventions.
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Professor Yulan He
Professor of Computer Science, Department of Computer Science
Email:Yulan.He@warwick.ac.uk
Research interests
Yulan's research centres on the exploration of statistical models in representing uncertainty and the benefit they bring over earlier work in a wide range of application areas, particularly the integration of machine learning and natural language processing for text understanding. Some of her interested research topics include question-answering, sentiment analysis and opinion mining, topic/event extraction from text, combining language and vision for multimodal analysis, clinical text mining, conversational agents and social media analytics.
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Dr Keith HyamsLink opens in a new window
Reader in Political Theory and Interdisciplinary Ethics, Department of Politics and International Studies
Email:K.D.Hyams@warwick.ac.uk
Research interests
Ethics in Climate and Development. His research interests are animated by two questions:
- How can we achieve adaptation to climate change, and international development more generally, in a way that is both ethical and equitable?
- What can we learn from psychology about how to build political institutions that can better cope with the environmental and technological challenges that humanity faces?
Selected publications:
- 'Addressing Multi-Dimensional Injustice in Indigenous Adaptation: The Case of Uganda's Batwa Community' (with Poshendra Satyal and Morten Byskov),Climate and Development, OnlineFirst atdoi.org/10.1080/17565529.2020.1824888
- 'An Agenda for Ethics and Justice in Climate Adaptation', (with Morten Byskov and others),Climate and Development13 (2021): 1-9
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Dr Alex Jones
Reader, School of Life Sciences
Email:alex.jones@warwick.ac.uk
Research interests
Protein biochemist with expertise in plant science, so plant pathology, growth and development. Interested in plant derived (bio-) products and uptake of phosphate into plant roots and ways to mitigate arsenic accumulation.
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Professor Georgia Kremmyda
Professor, School of Engineering
Email:g.kremmyda@warwick.ac.uk
Research interests
Environmental Engineering.
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Dr Greg McInerny
Associate Professor, Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies
Email:G.McInerny@warwick.ac.uk
Research interests
Understanding visualisation in the real world. Food-water-energy nexus.
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Professor Pablo Mukherjee
Professor, Department of English
Email:u.mukherjee@warwick.ac.uk
Research interests
City planning, urban infrastructures and violence; natural disasters and empire.
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Dr Ana Raquel Nunes
Senior Research Fellow, Warwick Medical School
Email:Raquel.Nunes@warwick.ac.uk
Research interests
Global Health and Planetary Health, SDGs and Health, environment and health, extreme weather events, adaptation and resilience.
Determinants of general and specified resilience to extreme temperatures
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Dr Stéphanie Panichelli-Batalla
Associate Professor, School for Cross-faculty Studies
Email:s.panichelli@warwick.ac.uk
Research interests
Humanitarian Aid, Disaster Relief and South-South Cooperation.
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Dr Jonathan PearsonLink opens in a new window
Associate Professor, School of Engineering
Email:J.M.Pearson@warwick.ac.uk
Research interests
Resilient infrastructure from natural hazards. Environmental fate of Organic pollutants. Projects include: 2017-2021: EU ECOSTRUCTURE: Climate Change Adaption through Ecologically Sensitive Coastal Infrastructure: European Regional Development Fund (ERDF): (Co-I) Value: c. £3,000,000 (Warwick Income: c. £200,000) 2017: Lloyd’s Register Foundation / Arup Joint Programme on Resilience Engineering “Flood Resilience: Consolidating knowledge between and within critical infrastructure sectors “ 2016: Royal Academy of Engineering: / The Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship (Ref : LTSRF1516\12\92): “Coastal flood risks under extreme events: Creating resilience through retrofitting ” 2016.
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Dr Vangelis Pitidis
Research Fellow, Politics and International Studies
Email:evangelos.pitidis@warwick.ac.uk
Research interests
Urban resilience, sustainable development and sustainability transformations. Local community engagement through participatory mapping and
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Dr Alastair SmithLink opens in a new window
Senior Teaching Fellow, Global Sustainable Development
Email:A.Smith.21@warwick.ac.uk
Research and teaching interests
International trade and trade justice, governance for sustainable development and its political economy; local and international food regimes, food security and food sovereignty; livelihood decision making and its theorization, the informal economy, diversification and structural change; and place-based, local sustainable development.
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Dr Nathaniel Tkacz
Reader, Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies
Email:N.Tkacz@warwick.ac.uk
Research interests
My work investigates the political, economic and organisational dimensions of technology, with a specific focus on networked and digital forms. This has led me to analyse notions of political openness in web-based communities, the practice of ‘mass collaboration’, experimental economic platforms, software forking, trolling, and emerging forms of governance in network cultures, among other things. My current work is on dashboard interfaces, phone apps, and media and economy.
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Dr Hendrik Vollmer
Associate Professor of Accounting, Warwick Business School
Email:Hendrik.Vollmer@wbs.ac.uk
Research interests
My research is interested in understanding the present and future contribution of accounting as organisational and institutional practice to ecological reconstitution and sustainable development. I have a particular interest in investigating how non-standard, peripheral, and vernacular forms of accounting interact with and potentially enrich professional practice and contribute to reorienting organisational behaviour and socio-economic development.
Public value and the planet: accounting in ecological reconstitution
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Dr Godwin Yeboah
Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Global Sustainable Development
Email:g.yeboah@warwick.ac.uk
Research interests
Interest in interdisciplinary/transdisciplinary research across the thematic strands of the Sustainable Development Goals. With an academic background is interdisciplinary in nature cutting across Geographic Information Science (PhD), Computer Science (MSc), Geoinformatics and Photogrammetry (MSc), Geomatic/Geodetic Engineering (BSc), and Social Science (Post-doc, PhD).
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Cecilia Yu
Doctoral research candidate, WBS
Email:Cecilia.Yu@warwick.ac.uk
Research interests
Intangible Living Culture and the role of the “Artist Entrepreneur” in Sustainable Development Strategies of the Future (SDG 2030). Sustainable Business Initiatives, Sustainable & Ethical social and economic development; Organisational role of UN and Individuals.