People

Supervisors and mentors - along with the Directorate a range of other academics from across disciplines form our staff and student supervision teams

Colin Beale - I work on a wide range of ecological problems from population dynamics and distributions to fire ecology in the African savannah.

Nik Brown - My areas of research concern the biopolitics of immunity in a wide range of empirical contexts.

Neil Carter - I am interested in all aspects of environmental politics and policy, with a particular interest in climate policy and politics. 

Steve Cinderby - I specialise in the use of geographic information systems (GIS), participatory methods and behaviour change initiatives.

Sabine Clarke - My research considers the relationship between scientific research and visions of economic and social development in the British colonies after 1940.

Peter Coventry -  I work across all elements of applied health services research, using evidence synthesis, qualitative methods and trials with a focus on evaluating complex interventions for people with mental health problems and long term conditions.

Kanchon Dasmahapatra - I apply genetic and genomic data to understand interesting evolutionary questions, in particular the causes of speciation.

Alison Dyke - I work on nature-society relations, particularly focused on interactions between humans and trees, biosecurity, plant health and wild harvest.

Kate Giles - I am a buildings archaeologist with a specialism in the recording, archival research and theoretical interpretation of historic buildings.

Jon Green - I work to trace the impacts of consumption on biodiversity, via often-complex chains of trade in agricultural commodities.

Shane Hamilton - My research focuses on the historical political economy of agribusiness.

Anika Haque - My research sits at the intersection of society, environment and development. I am particularly interested in structural inequalities at city level.

Tony Heron - My research interests include global food systems, sustainability governance, global value chains, the political economy of the UK’s independent trade policy and agricultural reform in the context of Brexit.  

Jane Hill - I study the impacts of climate change and habitat loss on species to understand their responses to environmental change.

Luisa Huaccho Huatuco - My expertise in manufacturing systems' complexity, contextualises my current research interests including sustainable supply chains.

Teresa Kitler - My research focuses on artistic practices from 1945 to present day, with a special interest in Italian post-war art, primarily on issues related to art and the environment and feminism.

Felicia Liu - My work focuses on sustainable finance as an important tool in (re)mediating the relationship between human and non-human nature in contemporary times.

Simon Mair - My research interests include the post-growth and degrowth economics, post-capitalism, and alternative economies.

Nicky Milner - My research mainly focuses on the Mesolithic period; palaeodiet and consumption practices are among my interests, along with settlement, mobility and the analysis of seasonality information. 

Rachel Pateman - I am a mixed methods researcher interested in citizen science and the health and well-being benefits of urban green spaces.

Jon Pitchford - I use mathematical models and apply methods from dynamical systems and stochastic processes together with computer simulations to study challenging biodiversity problems.

Amanda Rees - My research areas include the sociology of human/animal relation, field science, the public presentation of scientific knowledge and the representation of science in fiction.

Julie Rugg - I have expertise in cemetery research both nationally and internationally. In the UK, the study of changing burial practice has recognised the need to understand developments at a local level.

Erica Sheen - My research is in the Renaissance and in cinema, especially American and European cinemas in the Cold War. I work on animals as well as people.

Helen Smith - My current research includes tracing the liveliness of matter and making the case for literature as a means of engaging with and assaying the world around us. 

Jacco Thijssen - My main research interests are in mathematical models of dynamic decision making in general, and investment under uncertainty (real options) in particular.

Chris Thomas - I am interested in understanding biologival and human processes that give rise to species being successful, the ways people exploit them, and the ways successful species exploit humans. 

Julia Touza - My research explores environmental problems driven by economic factors, and evaluates the strategic behaviour of natural resource users/managers in a temporal-spatial context.

Mark Vellend - My research focuses on plant population and community responses to environmental change.

Victoria Wells - I am interested in the role the environment plays in consumers’ behaviour whether it is how the environment affects consumer choices or how consumers’ behaviour affects the physical environment.

Chris West - My current research focuses on the role of commodity trade and supply chains in driving environmental change, where I have a particular interest in effects on biodiversity and tropical deforestation.

Piran White - I lead the University of York’s involvement in the Australian-based Co-operative Research Centre on Invasive Animals.