Climate, Hazards and Environmental Change Research – Bath Spa University
The Climate, Hazards and Environmental Change Research Cluster
Engaging in multi-disciplinary research on climate change, hazards, disasters and sustainability.
The Climate, Hazards and Environmental Change Research Cluster draws on perspectives from multiple disciplines including human geography, physical geography, archaeology, biology, nutritional sciences and philosophy.
Our research has focused on a variety of topics, including:
Quaternary environmental change
Critical perspectives on climate change adaptation
Historical perspectives on wildfire hazards
Coastal floods and tsunamis
Flood risk management
Vulnerability to volcanic hazards
Environmental archaeology and paleoecology
Political ecologies of resource extraction.
Our researchers have experience of working in numerous locations including the UK, Ireland, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Bhutan, Italy, Germany, Russia, Ecuador, the Dominican Republic and the United States.
Our researchers
David
Simm
Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography
Matthew
Law
Senior Lecturer in Environmental Change and Sustainability
James
Jeffers
Programme Leader for Geography
Simon
Haslett
Pro Vice-Chancellor (Partnership Strategy)
Lori
Bystrom
Lecturer in Food Enterprise and Plant Science
Kim
Davies
Lecturer in Physical Geography
Impact, engagement and collaboration
We are committed to research with impact and to collaborations with local communities, policy makers and industry. As university teachers and researchers, we are also committed to research-informed teaching, and to providing our students with opportunities to engage with and participate in research.
Our research informs our teaching contributions to degree programmes across the
School of Sciences
, including in
Geography
Environmental Science
Wildlife Conservation
and
Biology
We are also affiliated with the University's
Centre for Research on Science and Society
and the
Research Centre for Environmental Humanities
Research projects
Our international research aims to deepen understandings of complex social, environmental and sustainability challenges.
Digital Climate Futures
Political afterlife of rubble
Dynamic Risk at Fuego Volcano
Historical perspectives on wildfires in Ireland
The Last Hurrah: exploring climate change through theatre
Cork flood defences dispute
HiFlo-DAT Hazard Database
Our events
Our online research lecture series is open to the public. To find out more or register to attend an online lecture, please visit our
events
page.
Recordings of some of our past events are also available on
Browse our events
Get in touch
If you're interested in our research, please contact our Cluster Director,
Dr Jim Jeffers
. Alternatively, speak to any member of our group.
Cluster Director
Dr Jim Jeffers:
j.jeffers@bathspa.ac.uk
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