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Looking for an expert on environmental and sustainability issues?

Researchers in the Changing Environments research programme are available for interviews, expert commentary and background information on current environmental and sustainability challenges.

The programme brings together researchers from across the humanities with expertise in areas such as climate change and biodiversity loss, human relationships with nature and other species, environmental history, sustainability, ecological responsibility, and the social, cultural and ethical dimensions of environmental change.

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Archaeology and Heritage Studies

  • Medieval and Early Modern Archaeology
  • Topography of Power
  • Buildings Archaeology and Built Heritage

  • Landscape archaeology and landscape histories
  • Grazing regimes, herding, transhumance, boundaries/fences, commons
  • Deep-time anthropogenic landscapes, heathlands





Global Studies




Derek Pardue

Associate Professor, Research Programme Director
  • Darkness and Emotions
  • Environmental conditions as Sensorial Knowledge
  • Artificial Light Politics
  • Writing Nature and Ethnographic Fiction 



  • environmental history, history of science and technology
  • rural development, agriculture, mining, extractive frontiers
  • Latin America since 1800

History and Classical Studies

  • Animal history
  • History of agro-food systems, meat production and consumption

  • Environmental history and settler colonialism
  • Land and resource management in medieval Europe
  • Ideas of "wilderness," "wildness," and Indigeneity


Theology


  • Philosophy, ethics and theology of sustainability, resilience and transformation; environmental ethics
  • Human-nature relationality; relational agency, values, knowledges and worldviews; cultural sustainability transformation; relational ethics
  • Biodiversity and relational framework of biodiversity conservation

  • philosophy of nature, eco-phenomenology, and questions of human responsibility in the 'Anthropocene'
  • religious resources for environmental protection, eco-theology, and the imagination of sustainable worlds
  • environmental ethics including 'eco-emotions' and 'eco-virtues': how to preserve hope and motivation for action?

Anthropology

Heather Anne Swanson

Professor, Research Programm Director
  • environmental anthropology
  • interdisciplinary methodologies
  • innovation, impact, and collaboration in the green humanities and social sciences
  • landscape histories
  • food systems, ecological/biodiversity concerns, and river/ocean management
  • science and technology studies

Janne Flora

Associate Professor