YESI Community Directory

The YESI Community is made up of the wide range of researchers working on environmental sustainability, across many disciplines, departments and institutions at the University of York.

This YESI Community Directory is designed to showcase the breadth of research in this area and help put you in touch with the right person. 

Please contact our researchers directly using their information below. For media enquiries please contact the University's Press Office on +44 (0)1904 322029 or email pressoffice@york.ac.uk.

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Obroma Agumagu

PhD Student

Dept of Environment & History

oa824@york.ac.uk

  • Climate change
  • Sea level rise
  • Adaptation
  • Policy

Henrice Altink

Professor in Modern History

Dept of History

henrice.altink@york.ac.uk

  • Caribbean Small Island Developing States
  • vulnerability
  • resilience
  • disaster

Orlagh Anderson

PhD Student

Dept of Biology

oha504@york.ac.uk

  • Microbiologyl
  • Anaerobic Cultivation
  • Metabolic Modelling
  • Bioinformatics

Rhys Archer

Research Fellow

SEI-York

  • Citizen Science
  • Mental Health
  • Air Quality
  • Materials Science
  • Equality

Chamley Ariyachandra

Post graduate researcher

Dept of Health Sciences

cla550@york.ac.uk
  • Sustainability
  • Planetary health
  • Consumer influence
 

Dr Kathryn Arnold

Professor in Ecology

Dept of Environment & Geography

kathryn.arnold@york.ac.uk

  • Environmental change
  • Chemical contaminants 
  • Habitat management

Gideon Baffoe

Lecturer

Dept of Environment & Geography

gideon.baffoe@york.ac.uk

  • Livelihood
  • Agricultural Systems
  • Climate adaptation

Peter Ball

Professor of Operations Management

School for Business & Society

peter.ball@york.ac.uk

  • Operations,
  • Supply Chain
  • Practice sharing

Ian Bancroft

CNAP Chair of Plant Genomics

Dept of Biology

ian.bancroft@york.ac.uk

  • Genome evolution
  • Food security
  • Industrial biotechnology

Amy Barnes

Senior Research and Policy Fellow

Dept of Health Sciences

amy.barnes@york.ac.uk

  • Public health policy
  • Inequality
  • Living conditions
  • Community action
Colin Beale 

Professor, YESI Resilient Ecosystems Theme Co-Lead

Dept of Biology

colin.beale@york.ac.uk

  • Ecology
  • Conservation
  • Biodiversity

Ana Benavideslahnstein

Research Associate

Dept of Chemistry

ana.benavideslahnstein@york.ac.uk

  • Science education
  • environmental education

Sarah Bezan

Post Doctoral Researcher

Dept English/Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity

sarah.bezan@york.ac.uk

  • Extinction studies

Claire Boardman

PhD Researcher

Dept of Archaeology

clb593@york.ac.uk

  • Coastal and island communities: managed loss and adaption
  • Heritage-led adaption and role of local/community GLAMs (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums)
  • GIS & remote sensing in coastal heritage management particularly coastline/hinterland archaeology and large-scale, single-event loss of archaeology
  • Rewilding/Repeopling - business, politics and ethics
  • Sustainable rural/coastal/island enterprise.

Laura Bojke

Professor

Centre for Health Economics (CHE)

laura.bojke@york.ac.uk

  • Economics
  • Evaluation of climate change mitigation actions
  • Public-Health
  • System readiness for climate change environmental changes

Suranjana Bose

Green Chemistry Research Technician

Green Chemistry Centre of Excellence, Department of Chemistry

suranjana.bose@york.ac.uk

  • Bio-based mesoporous materials and food/ agricultural waste valorisation using green technologies
 

Alistair Boxall

Professor

Dept of Environment & Geography

alistair.boxall@york.ac.uk

  • Ecotoxicology
  • Environmental Chemistry
  • Pollution
  • Emerging Contaminants
  • Environmental Monitoring

Sarah Bridle 

Professor of Food, Climate and Society

Dept of Environment & Geography

sarah.bridle@york.ac.uk

 

Daniel Bryant

Postdoctoral researcher

Dept of Chemistry

daniel.bryant@york.ac.uk

  • Air pollution
  • Analytical Chemistry

Neil Bruce

Director of CNAP and Chair of Biotechnology

Dept of Biology

neil.bruce@york.ac.uk

  • Environmental and Industrial Biotechnology

Sari Budisulistiorini

Post Doctoral Research Associate

Dept of Chemistry

sari.budisulistiorini@york.ac.uk

  • Aerosol,
  • Biomass burning,
  • Microplastic

Lindsey Buster

Post Doctoral Research Associate

Dept of Archaeology

lindsey.buster@york.ac.uk

  • Material culture
  • prehistory, deposition
 

Howard Cambridge

Research Technical Support Manager

Stockholm Environment Institute

howard.cambridge@york.ac.uk

  • Geography
  • Transport
  • Technology
  • Communication

Juan Ramon Candia

PhD Researcher, Research Assistant

School for Busines & Society

jr.candia@york.ac.uk

  • Business and Climate Change
  • Digital Solutions
  • New Business Models
 

Lucy Carpenter

Professor

Dept of Chemistry

Lucy.carpenter@york.ac.uk

  • Atmospheric chemistry
  • Ozone
  • Air pollution
  • Biogeochemical cycles

Jamie Carr

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Department of Environment & Geography

jamie.carr@york.ac.uk

  • Biodiversity
  • Climate change
  • Governance
  • Sustainable development
 

Nic Carslaw

Professor in Indoor Air Chemistry

Dept of Environment & Geography

nicola.carslaw@york.ac.uk

  • Indoor air quality

Rosie Chance

Research Fellow

Department of Chemistry

rosie.chance@york.ac.uk

  • Biogeochemical cycles
  • Analytical Chemistry
  • Marine chemistry
  • Horticulture

James Chong

Professor

Dept of Biology

james.chong@york.ac.uk

  • Anaerobic Digestion
  • Resource Recovery
  • Microbial Communities
 

Sonal Choudhary

Professor in Sustainable Management

School for Business and Society

sonal.choudhary@york.ac.uk

  • Food Systems Innovation
  • Digital Transformation
  • Resilient and Sustainable Supply Chains
  • Process Efficiency
  • Lean-Green
  • Circular Economy

Steve Cinderby

Senior Researcher

SEI & Dept of Environment & Geography

steve.cinderby@york.ac.uk

 

Lisa Clark

Lecturer

School for Business & Society

lisa.clark@york.ac.uk

  • HRM,
  • HRD,
  • Mental Health,
  • Green social prescribing
 

Sabine Clarke

Senior Lecturer in Modern History

Dept of History

sabine.clarke@york.ac.uk

  • History of science
  • Technology and medicine
  • Empire

David Clayton

Senior Lecturer

Dept of History

David.clayton@york.ac.uk

  • Water Governance
 

Liam Clegg

Lecturer

Dept of Politics

liam.clegg@york.ac.uk 

  • Sustainable development
  • local government
  • climate change
 

Louise Cooke

Lecturer

Dept of Archaelogy

louise.cooke@york.ac.uk

  • Built Heritage
  • Conservation
  • Sustainability
 

Peter Coventry

Senior Lecturer in Health Services Research

Dept of Health Sciences

peter.coventry@york.ac.uk

  • Mental health
  • natural environment
  • long term conditions

Oliver Craig

Professor of Archaeological Science, Deputy Head of Department

Dept of Archaeology

oliver.craig@york.ac.uk

  • Biomolecular archaeology
  • Paleodiet

Rob Critchlow

Post Doctoral Research Associate

Dept of Biology

rob.critchlow@york.ac.uk 

  • Spatial Ecology
  • Conservation Biology
  • Savanna ecosystems
 

Simon Croft

Research Fellow

SEI-York

simon.croft@york.ac.uk 

  • Supply chains
  • Agri-commodities
  • Food systems
  • Environmental impact assessment
 

Darpan Das

Lecturer

Dept of Environment & Geography

darpan.das@york.ac.uk

  • Air Pollution
  • Energy, Health
  • Exposure
 

Bipasa Datta

Senior Lecturer

Dept of Economics

bipasa.datta@york.ac.uk

  • Climate Change
  • Regulation
  • R&D
  • Industrial Organisation
  • Environmental Economic issues
  • Gender inequality
  • Sustainable development

Helen Davies

Research Associate

Dept of Environment & Geography

helen.davies@york.ac.uk

  • Indoor Air Quality
  • Modelling of Indoor Air Chemistry

Seth Davis

Professor in Biology; Chair of Plant Biology

Dept of Biology

seth.davis@york.ac.uk 

  • Genetics of climate movement of plants
  • Genomics of a industrial algae work water 
  • Waste remediation
 

Dan Day

Post-Doctoral Research Associate

Dept of Chemistry

dan.day@york.ac.uk

  • Green Chemistry
  • Polymer Synthesis

Gustav Delius

Senior Lecturer

Dept of Mathematics

gustav.delius@york.ac.uk

  • Sustainable fishing
  • Size-based ecosystem modelling
 

Katherine Denby

Professor of Sustainable Crop Production

Dept of Biology

katherine.denby@york.ac.uk

  • Crop improvement
  • Plant disease resistance
  • Vertical farming
  • Sustainable food systems
  • Plant-based proteins
 

Frances Dixon

Communications Manager

SEI-York

frances.dixon@york.ac.uk

  • Communications
 

Bob Doherty

Dean of the School for Business and Society

School for Business and Society

bob.doherty@york.ac.uk 

  • Food Systems
  • Supply Chains
  • Fair Trade 
  • Social Enterprise
 

Dusana Dorjee

Senior Lecturer in Psychology in Education

Dept of Education

dusana.dorjee@york.ac.uk

  • Mental health in schools
  • Wellbeing in schools
  • Mindfulness
 

Andy Dougill

Professor of Environmental Sustainability

Dept of Environment and Geography

andy.dougill@york.ac.uk

  • Food Systems
  • Drylands
  • Climate Adaptation
  • Land Degradation
 

Tom Dugmore

Lecturer

Dept of Chemistry

tom.dugmore@york.ac.uk

  • Green Chemistry
  • Food Waste
 

Lynda Dunlop

Senior Lecturer in Science Education

Dept of Education

lynda.dunlop@york.ac.uk

  • Climate change education
  • Environmental & sustainability education
  • Youth
  • Political participation
 

Barnaby Dye

Lecturer

Dept of Politics

barnaby.dye@york.ac.uk

  • Electricity
  • Infrastructure
  • Political Economy
  • Political Ecology
 

Rhian Ebrey

Project Coordinator

SEI-Y

rhian.ebrey@york.ac.uk

 

Ulrike Ehgartner

Research Associate

School for Business and Society

ulrike.ehgartner@york.ac.uk

  • Food Systems
  • Sustainable Consumption and Production
  • Sustainable Futures
  • Discourse Analysis
 

Lisa Emberson

Professor

Dept of Environment and Geography

l.emberson@york.ac.uk

  • Air pollution
  • Climate change
  • Crop productivity
  • Forest productivity
  • Emissions

Jon Ensor

Professor

Stockholm Environment Institute, Dept of Environment and Geography

jon.ensor@york.ac.uk

  • Climate change adaptation
  • Social justice
  • Rights-based approaches
  • Political capability

Mat Evans

Professor

Dept of Chemistry

mat.evans@york.ac.uk

  • Atmospheric Chemistry
  • Pollution
  • Numerical modelling of atmospheric chemistry
  • Climate change
 

Thomas Farmer

Dr

Dept of Chemistry

thomas.farmer@york.ac.uk

  • Green Chemistry
  • Clean synthesis
  • Bio-based chemicals
  • Sustainable chemistry
  • Heterogeneous catalysis
  • Microwave, flow and ultrasound reactors
  • Polymer synthesis and characterisation.

Nicola Favretto

Research Associate

Dept of Environment and Geography

nicola.favretto@york.ac.uk

  • Sustainable and climate-resilient land management
  • Sustainable livelihoods development
  • Environmental policy and governance
  • Multi-stakeholder engagement
 

Ioan Fazey

Professor Social Dimensions of Environment and Change

Dept of Environment and Geography

ioan.fazey@york.ac.uk

  • Societal transformation
  • futures, resilience
 

Ambrose Field

Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Global Strategy)

VC's Department

ambrose.field@york.ac.uk

  • Arts and Humanities methodologies
  • Interdisciplinary creativity

Bryden Fields

Post Doctoral Research Associate

Dept of Biology

bryden.fields@york.ac.uk

  • evolutionary microbiology
  • rhizospheres
  • symbiosis
  • biocontrol
 

Jonathan Finch

Professor of Archaeology

Dept of Archaeology

jonathan.finch@york.ac.uk

  • Historical landscape
  • Rural poverty
  • Slavery
  • Commemoration

Maria Franco Gavonel

Lecturer in Global Social Policy and International Development

School for Business and Society

maria.francogavonel@york.ac.uk

  • Migration;
  • Sustainable development
  • Human capital
 

Mark Freeman

Professor of Finance

School for Business and Society

mark.freeman@york.ac.uk

  • Intergenerational Discounting
  • Social Cost of Carbon
  • Cost-Benefit Analysis of Climate Change Mitigation
 

Richard Friend

Senior Lecturer

Dept of Environment and Geography

richard.friend@york.ac.uk

  • Climate change adaptation and resilience
  • Environment conflict and peace-building
  • Poverty and vulnerability
  • Social and environmental change 
  • Urbanisation
  • Water resource management

Philip Garnett

Senior Lecturer in Systems and Organisation

School for Business and Society

philip.garnett@york.ac.uk

  • Complex systems
  • Food systems
  • Food security
 

Hilary Graham

Professor of Health Science

Dept of Health Sciences

hilary.graham@york.ac.uk

  • Climate change
  • Public health
  • Public perceptions
 

Catherine Graves

Research Fellow

School of Arts and Creative Technologies

catherine.graves@york,ac.uk

  • Pro-environmental behaviour change
  • Environmental communication
 

Adam S Green

Lecturer in Sustainability

Dept of Archaeology and Dept of Environment and Geography

adam.green@york.ac.uk

  • Inequality
  • Agriculture
  • Water Management
  • Governance
 

Alex Green

Lecturer

York Law School

alex.green@york.ac.uk

  • Public International Law
  • Political Philosophy
  • Indigenous Justice

Jonathan Green

Senior Lecturer

SEI-York

jonathan.green@york.ac.uk

  • Bioidversity indicators
  • Metrics
  • Trade
 

Shane Hamilton

Reader in Strategy, Management and Society

School for Business and Society

shane.hamilton@york.ac.uk 

  • History of agribusiness
  • Technological innovation and maintenance
  • Regulation
  • International business
  • Agrifood and environmental sustainability
 

Anika N. Haque

Lecturer

Dept of Environment and Geography

anika.haque@york.ac.uk

  • Climate change adaptation
  • Gender inequality/vulnerability
  • Global South Cities
  • Energy transition

Laura Harrison

Research Associate

Dept of Environment and Geography

laura.harrison@york.ac.uk

  • Ecosystem services
  • Nature Connection
  • Mental Health
  • Food systems

Jack Hatfield

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Dept of Biology and Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity

jack.hatfield@york.ac.uk

  • Biodiversity
  • Global change
  • Ecology
 

 Lenka Havlickova

Research Associate

Dept of Biology

lenka.havlickova@york.ac.uk

 

Andreas Heinemeyer

Associate Professor (Senior Researcher SEI-Y)

SEI-Y, Dept of Environment and Geography

andreas.heinemeyer@york.ac.uk

  • Peatlands
  • Ecosystem services
  • Carbon storage
  • GHG emissions
 

Tony Heron

Professor of International Political Economy

Dept of Politics

tony.heron@york.ac.uk

  • Political economy of trade
  • global food systems
  • global value chains
  • UK trade policy
  • Environmental governance

Jane Hill

Professor of Ecology, Associate Dean for Research (Sciences)

Dept of Biology

jane.hill@york.ac.uk

  • Biodiversity,
  • Climate change
  • Tropical ecology
 

Eric Hoddy

Lecturer

Politics, Centre for Applied Human Rights

eric.hoddy@york.ac.uk

  • Climate
  • Development
  • Human rights
  • Post-conflict
 

Mark Hodson

Professor

Dept of Environment and Geography

mark.hodson@york.ac.uk

  • Soil
  • Earth surface geochemistry
  • Earthworms
 

Ceri Holman

PhD Student

Dept of Education

crh560@york.ac.uk

  • Environmental education
  • Sustainability
  • Deliberative democracy
  • Youth climate activism
 

Jonathan Hook

Senior Lecturer in Interactive Media

School of Arts and Creative Technologies

jonathan.hook@york.ac.uk

  • Responsive video,
  • Immersive technology, and its application for social good
 

Janina Hossbach

Research Technician

Dept of Biology

janina.hossbach@york.ac.uk

  • Lignocellulose
  • Enzymology
  • Biotechnology

Ella Howes

Post doc researcher

Dept of Environment and Geography

ella.howes@york.ac.uk

  • Marine climate change policy

Sally Howlett

Centre Manager

Leverhulme Centre for Anthorpocene Biodiversity

sally.howlett@york.ac.uk

 

Luisa Huatuco

Reader in Operations Management

School for Business and Society

luisa.huatuco@york.ac.uk 

  • Complexity
  • Supply Chains
  • Sustainability, Resilience
 

Paul Hudson

Lecturer in Environmental Economics

Dept of Environment and Geography

paul.hudson@york.ac.uk

 

  • Climate Change Adapation
  • Disaster risk management
  • Flooding
  • Nature-based solouions/blue carbon
 

Liz Hurrell

Associate Lecturer

Dept of Environment and Geography

liz.hurrell@york.ac.uk

  • Teaching and learning (climate education)
  • EDI in Env Sciences
  • Palaeoscience in East Africa
 

Glenn Hurst

Associate Prof Green Chemistry Education

Dept of Chemistry

glenn.hurst@york.ac.uk

  • Systems thinking
  • Sustainability Education
  • Green Chemistry
 

Samarul Islam

Research Associate

Dept of Health Sciences

samarul.islam@york.ac.uk

  • Air Pollution
  • Climate Change 
  • Health

Rowena Jacobs

Professor of Health Economics

Centre for Health Economics (CHE)

rowena.jacobs@york.ac.uk

  • Mental health economics
  • Relationship between environment and mental health
 

Anthonia James

Head of the York Policy Engine (TYPE)

TYPE

type@york.ac.uk

 

Juliet James

PGR Officer

SAS

juliet.james@york.ac.uk

 

Mark Jenner

Professor

Dept of History

mark.jenner@york.ac.uk

  • C16-C19 History
  • Pollution
  • Water
  • Health
 

Eleanor Jew

Lecturer in Environment and Development

Dept of Environment and Geography

eleanor.jew@york.ac.uk

  • Agriculture
  • Land use change
  • Biodiversity conservation
  • Livelihoods

Steven Johnson

Professor

School of Physics, Engineering and Technology

steven.johnson@york.ac.uk

  • Analytical technologies;
  • Equitable/ appropriate technology

Matthew Jones

Research Associate

Dept of Chemistry

matthew.jones@york.ac.uk

  • Marine chemistry
  • Ocean Acidification
  • Nutrient Biogeochemistry
  • Analytical Chemistry

Ariadne Kapetanaki

Senior Lecturer in Marketing

School for Business and Society

ariadne.kapetanaki@york.ac.uk

  • Food consumption
  • Food policies
  • Food practices
  • Social marketing
 

Dimitar Kazakov

Senior Lecturer

Dept of Computer Science

dlk2@york.ac.uk

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Machine Learning
  • Natural Language Processing

Danson Kimani

Senior Lecturer in Accounting and Finance

School for Business and Society

danson.kimani@york.ac.uk

  • Biodiversity Accounting
  • Extinction Accounting
  • Social and Environmental Accounting
  • Corporate Governance
 

Joshua Kirshner

Senior Lecturer

Dept of Environment and Geography

joshua.kirshner@york.ac.uk

  • Energy transition,
  • Resources extraction,
  • Urban and regional planning,
  • Commodity frontiers
 

Alana Kluczkovski

Research Associate

Dept of Biology

alana.kluczkovski@york.ac.uk

  • Food system
  • Hybrid business
  • Indoor farming
  • Education and sustainability
 

Sarah Knight

ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow

Dept of Environment and Geography

sarah.knight@york.ac.uk

  • Greenspace
  • Biodiversity
  • Well-being
  • GIS
 
Zheng-Hong Kong

Postgraduate Research Student

Dept of Environment and Geography

zk674@york.ac.uk

  • Restoration ecology
  • Environmental management
  • Rural sustainable development
 

Judith Krauss

Lecturer

Dept of Politics/IGDC

judith.krauss@york.ac.uk

  • Sustainable value chains
  • Decolonising conservation
  • Political ecology
  • Human-wildlife interactions
 

Melanie Kreye

Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management

School for Business and Society

melanie.kreye@york.ac.uk

  • Service operations
  • Manufacturing
  • Circular supply chains
  • Sustainable supply chains
 

Richard Law

Emeritus Professor

Dept of Mathematics and Dept of Biology

richard.law@york.ac.uk

  • Ecology
  • Evolution
  • Fisheries
 

Hien Luong

PhD Student

Dept of Biology

hvl511@york.ac.uk

  • Biodiversity credit
 

Simon Mair

Lecturer in Sustainability

Dept of Environment and Geography

simon.mair@york.ac.uk

  • Post-growth
  • Ecological economics
  • Heterodox economics
  • Post-capitalism
 

Andy Maneffa

PhD candidate, 

Green Chemistry Centre for Excellence (GCCE), Dept of Chemistry

ajm617@york.ac.uk 

  • Food waste
  • Natural Humectants and Plasticisers

Rob Marchant

Professor of Tropical Ecology

Dept of Environment and Geography

robert.marchant@york.ac.uk

  • Ecosystems,
  • Conservation,
  • Palaeoecology,
  • Scenarios
 

Daryl Martin

Senior Lecturer

Dept of Sociology

daryl.martin@york.ac.uk

  • Architecture
  • Health
  • Urban

Avtar Matharu

Deputy Director of the Green Chemistry Centre of Excellence (GCCE)

Dept of Chemistry

avtar.matharu@york.ac.uk

  • Green and Sustainable Chemistry
  • Waste valorisation
  • Renewable Resources

Debbie Maxwell

Lecturer

School of Arts and Creative Technologies

debbie.maxwell@york.ac.uk

  • Participatory design
  • User experience design
  • Interactive media
 

Colin Mclean

Senior Lecturer

Dept of Environment and Geography 

colin.mcclean@york.ac.uk

  • Spatial analysis
  • Geography
  • Ecology
 

Lucy McMahon

PhD researcher/ Associate Lecturer

Dept of Environment and Geography

lm1536@york.ac.uk

  • Blue carbon
  • Nature-based solutions
  • Coastal restoration
  • Marine science

Jon Mee

Professor of Eighteenth Century Studies

Dept of English/Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies

jon.mee@york.ac.uk 

  • Romanticism;
  • Industrial revolution;
  • Medical and environmental history
 

Lisa Miller

Postdoctoral Research Associate

School of Physics, Engineering and Technology

lisa.miller@york.ac.uk 

  • Biosensor surface chemistry

Paul Mitchell

Professor

Physics, Engineering and Technology

paul.mitchell@york.ac.uk 

  • Wireless communications
  • Underwater networks
 

Alfred Moore

Senior Lecturer

Dept of Politics

alfred.moore@york.ac.uk

  • Democracy
  • Politics of expertise
  • Science
  • Governance
 

Jeremy Moutlon

Lecturer

Dept of Politics

jeremy.moulton@york.ac.uk

  • European Union
  • China
  • Climate change
  • Renewables
 

Karen Parkhill

Reader

Dept of Environment and Geography

karen.parkhill@york.ac.uk

  • Energy
  • Environment
  • Attitudes
  • Emergent Technology
 

Joy Parvin 

Director of CIEC

Dept of Chemistry

joy.parvin@york.ac.uk

  • Primary School Sustainable Education
 

Dr Rachel Pateman

Researcher

SEI York

rachel.pateman@york.ac.uk

  • Citizen science
  • Greenspaces,
  • Wellbeing

Kirsty Penkman

Professor in Analytical Chemistry

Dept of Chemistry

kirsty.penkman@york.ac.uk

  • Palaeoclimate
  • Corals
  • Shells
 

Abi Perrin

PDRA in cyanobacterial cell biology

Dept of Biology

abi.perrin@york.ac.uk

  • Microalgae
  • Photosynthesis
  • Communication/education

Hanna Pettersson

Post Doctoral Research Associate

Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity

hanna.pettersson@york.ac.uk

  • Conservation,
  • Human-wildlife interactions,
  • Rewilding
 

Andrew Pickering

Reader

Dept of Economics

andrew.pickering@york.ac.uk

  • Political economics
 

Kate Pickett

Professor of Epidemiology

Dept of Health Sciences

kate.pickett@york.ac.uk

  • Social determinants of health and wellbeing
 

Toby Pillatt

Research Associate

Dept of Archaeology

toby.pillatt@york.ac.uk

  • Trees
  • Landscape History
  • Community Engagement
 

Stephanie Piper

Associate Lecturer

Dept of Archaeology

stephanie.piper@york.ac.uk 

  • Coasts
  • Hunter gatherers
  • Prehistory

Jon Pitchford

Professor

Depts of Biology and Mathematics

jon.pitchford@york.ac.uk

  • Mathematics
  • Ecology
  • Uncertainly
  • Marine systems
 

Maddy Power

Wellcome Trust Research Fellow

Dept of Health Sciences

madeleine.power@york.ac.uk

  • Food charity
  • Food insecurity
  • Poverty
  • Participatory research

Shainur Premji

Research Fellow

Centre for Health Economics

Shainur.premji@york.ac.uk

  • Costs and benefits of climate change adaptation and mitigation efforts for whole populations and sub populations
 

Raeni Raeni

Research Associate

Stockholm Environment Institute - York

raeni.raeni@york.ac.uk

  • Climate finance
  • accountability
  • transparency,
  • traceability infrastructure
  • climate governance.

Kelly Redeker

Lecturer

Dept of Biology

kelly.redeker@york.ac.uk

  • Sustainable land use change
  • Sustainable agriculture
  • Waste and water
  • Climate change
 

Ethan Redmond

PhD Student

Dept of Biology

er1068@york.ac.uk

  • Plant science
  • Mathematical biology
  • Transcriptomics
  • Environmental responses

Darren Reed

Senior Lecturer

Dept of Sociology

darren.reed@york.ac.uk

  • Technology Design
  • Embodied Interaction
  • Environmental sensors

Paul Revill

Professor

Centre for Health Economics

paul.revill@york.ac.uk

  • Resource allocation in health
  • HIV
  • Public health
 

Elva Robinson

Professor in Ecology

Dept of Biology

elva.robinson@york.ac.uk

  • Behavioural ecology,
  • Social insects,
  • Ants,
  • Invasive species

Jo Rose

Senior Lecturer

Dept of Health Sciences

jo.rose@york.ac.uk

  • Humanitarian,
  • Conflicts,
  • Disasters and poverty
 

Julie Rugg

Senior Lecturer

School for Business and Society

julie.rugg@york.ac.uk

  • Deathscapes
 

Liz Rylott

Lecturer

Dept of Biology

liz.rylott@york.ac.uk

  • Phytoremediation
  • Phytomining
  • Metals
  • Pharmaceuticals
 

Smriti Safaya

Postdoctoral Fellow

Depts of Environment & Geography and Education 

ss2843@york.ac.uk

  • Citizen Science
  • Environmental Education
  • Youth Participatory Action Research

Brett Sallach

Lecturer

Dept of Environment and Geography

brett.sallach@york.ac.uk

  • Emerging Contaminants
  • Analytical Chemistry
  • Ecotoxicity
  • Chemical Fate

John Schofield

Professor

Dept of Archaeology

john.schofield@york.ac.uk

  • Heritage
  • Contemporary Archaeology
  • Material Culture

Sarah Scriven

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Dept of Biology/Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity

sarah.scriven@york.ac.uk

  • Conservation
  • Habitat Fragmentation
  • Tropical Ecology

Katherine Selby

Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography, Director of the School of Natural Sciences

Dept of Environment and Geography, School of Natural Sciences

katherine.selby@york.ac.uk

  • Sea level change,
  • Coastal environments
 

Kexin Shao

Postgraduate Researcher 

Dept of Economics and Related Studies

ks1912@york.ac.uk

  • Environment Economics
  • Microeconomics theory

James Sherwood

Research Fellow

Dept of Chemistry

james.sherwood@york.ac.uk

  • Sustainability metrics
  • Bioeconomy
 

Freya Sierhuis

Senior Lecturer

Dept of English

freya.sierhuis@york.ac.uk

  • Ecocriticism
  • Climate fiction

Joe Simpson

Research Assistant

SEI-York, Department of Environment and Geography

joe.simpson@york.ac.uk

  • Sustainable Consumption and Production
 

Stephen Smith

Professor in Electronic Engineering/Deputy Head of School (Research)

School of Physics, Engineering and Technology

stephen.smith@york.ac.uk

  • Interpretable Machine Learning
  • Biomedical Data Analysis

Sharvini Siva Raman

Research Fellow

Environment and Geography

sharvini.sivaraman@york.ac.uk

  • Energy
  • Policy
  • Environment
  • Waste

Carolyn Snell

Reader in Social Policy

School for Business and Society

carolyn.snell@york.ac.uk

  • Net Zero transition
  • Fuel poverty
  • Climate policy
  • Environmental crime
 

Bryce Stewart

Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor)

Dept of Environment and Geography

bryce.stewart@york.ac.uk

  • Fisheries
  • Marine Conservation
  • Marine Protected Areas

James Stockdale

Associate Lecturer

Dept of Biology

james.stockdale@york.ac.uk

  • Biogeochemical cycles of carbon and nitrogen
  • Novel technologies and green house gases

Emilie Stokeld

Research Trainee

SEI-York, Department of Environment and Geography

emilie.stokeld@york.ac.uk

  • Climate change
  • Agriculture
  • Trade
 

Lindsay Stringer

Professor in Environment and Development; YESI Director

Department of Environment and Geography

lindsay.stringer@york.ac.uk

  • Drylands
  • Policy
  • Human-environment links
 

Daryl Stump

Lecturer in Sustainability

Dept of Archaeology and Dept of Environment and Geography

daryl.stump@york.ac.uk

  • Sustainable agriculture
  • Historical ecology
  • Africa
 

Raveena M.  Tamoria

Research Student

Dept of Archaeology

rmt537@york.ac.uk

  • Cultural Heritage
  • Marine debris
  • Plastic pollution

Megan Tarrant

PhD Student

Dept of Politics, Dept of Environment and Geography, LCAB

mrt537@york.ac.uk

  • Human rights
  • Conservation
 

Dr Samarthia Thankappan

Senior Lecturer

Dept of Environment and Geography

samarthia.thankappan@york.ac.uk

  • Sustainability and the agri-food sector
  • Sustainability and the automotive sector
  • Environment, society & governance

Chris Thomas

Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity

Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity, Department of Biology

chris.thomas@york.ac.uk

  • Biodiversity
  • Ecology
  • Evolution
  • Conservation
 

Sean Thomas

Reader

York Law School

sean.thomas@york.ac.uk

  • Circular Economy
  • Smart Technology
  • Waste
 

Maya Thomas

PhD Student

Dept of Education

mbt523@york.ac.uk 

  • Environmental Activism
  • Citizenship
  • Education
 

Dr Simon Thomas

Research Associate

Dept of Environment and Geography

 simon.f.thomas@york.ac.uk

  • Fisheries science for data limited species
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Elasmobranch research
  • Environmental modelling

Michael Thornton

Professor, Head of Department

Dept of Economics

michael.thornton@york.ac.uk

  • Time series econometrics
 

Sylvia Toet

Senior lecturer in Environmental biogeochemistry

Dept of Environment and Geography

sylvia.toet@york.ac.uk

  • Climate change
  • Pollution
  • Carbon and nutrient cycling
  • Automated field equipment for greenhouse gas fluxes

Thierry Tonon

Lecturer in Algal Biology

Dept of Biology

thierry.tonon@york.ac.uk

  • Algae
  • Biology
  • Biomass
  • Valorisation
 

Julia Touza

Reader in Environmental Economics

Dept of Environment and Geography

julia.touza@york.ac.uk

  • Economics of Biodiversity
  • Conservation
  • Natural Resource Management
  • Trade and Invasive Species

Daniel Turk

PhD Student

Dept of Biology

djt550@york.ac.uk

  • Ecosystem Services
  • Biodiversity
  • Ecological Restoration

Richard Tutton

Senior Lecturer and Co-Director of Science and Technology Studies Unit (SATSU)

Dept of Sociology

richard.tutton@york.ac.uk

  • Social Studies of Outer Space
  • Sociology of the Future

Helen Weatherly

Professor

Centre for Health Economics (CHE)

helen.weatherly@york.ac.uk

  • Economic evaluation
  • Social care
  • Public health
 

Victoria Wells

Professor of Sustainable Management

School for Business and Society

victoria.wells@york.ac.uk

  • Consumer sustainability
  • Social sustainability
  • Sustainable marketing
  • Employee environmental behaviour
 

Chris West

Deputy Director (Research)

SEI York

chris.west@york.ac.uk

  • Trade
  • Deforestation
  • Biodiversity
  • Climate
 

Sarah West

Director

SEI York

sarah.west@york.ac.uk

  • Citizen science
  • Air pollution
  • Participation
  • Transdisciplinary
 

Piran White

Professor

Dept of Environment and Geography

piran.white@york.ac.uk

  • Ecology and management of wildlife populations
  • Environment and health economics of wildlife management
  • Wildlife diseases
 

Oliver Wilson

Knowledge Exchange Fellow

Dept of Environment and Geography

oliver.wilson@york.ac.uk

  • Biogeography
  • Ecology
  • Palaeoecology
  • Archaeology
 

Gavin Wright

Professor

Dept of Biology

gavin.wright@york.ac.uk

  • Host-pathogen interactions
  • Cell surface receptors
  • Malaria
  • Trypanosomiasis
 

Takashi Yamagata

Professor

Dept of Economics

takashi.yamagata@york.ac.uk

  • High-dimensional space-time statistical models
 

Jacqueline You

Lecturer (Assistant Professor)

School for Business and Society

Jacqueline.jingyou@york.ac.uk

  • Organisational Resilience & Sustainability
  • Innovation
  • Strategy 
  • Business ecosystems

Xun Zhou

Lecturer in Environmental Economics

Dept of Environment and Geography

xun.zhou@york.ac.uk

  • Environment and climate policy
  • Eco-efficiency
  • Ecosystem valuation
 

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