Personal statement

I am a Senior Lecturer at the University of Strathclyde and Deputy Director of the Strathclyde Institute for Sustainable Communities (SISC).

My research and teaching is interdisciplinary and applied, and addresses socio-technical transitions - often relating to geological resources, energy, water or integrated systems. Ultimately my work aims to inform pathways to a sustainable climate resilient future. 

I am based in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering where I lead the Just Transitions researcher group, the CO2 geological storage researcher group, and am Director for our MRes programmes. 

Beyond Strathclyde, I am the Deputy Editor in Chief of the journal Earth Science, Systems and Society, I am Deputy Director and ECR lead for the UKCCSRC, and sit on the Scottish Carbon Capture and Storage Directorate. I love showcasing how geoscience and engineering intersect with sustainable transitions and cross-cut societal challenges - and this motivates my role as co-director of Geoscience for the Future and co-host of the award winning Local Zero podcast.

Current topics that I am leading significant research on include:

• Geological CO2 storage: through the EU-funded UPTAKE project, which Dr Iain de Jonge-Anderson is researcher on, and the UKRI-funded UKCCSRC.
• Climate resilient water systems transitions: through the EPSRC-funded Decentralised Water Technologies programme grant, which Dr Laura Major is researcher on, and Impact Accelerator funded work on water scarcity in partnership with SEPA.
• Place-based sustainability transitions & health: through the UKRI-funded JUST-Systems project, Strathclyde's Activty Mobility Hub, and a project measuring air quality in key locations across Glasgow which researcher Caitlin Hope was researcher on.

If you are interested to learn more about my work, take a look at my project portfolio and recent publications - as well as the SISC webpages and blog.