SCHOOL OF EARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

My research focuses on reconstructing past climate change and its causes.  I'm interested in topics including Earth’s climate sensitivity, altered modes of ocean circulation, and controls on the carbon cycle. I also deliver regular publics events on climate change and the energy transition.

SCHOOL OF PHILOSOPHY

My research focuses on ethical issues about climate change, including greenhouse gas accounting and our understanding of net zero.  I also have research interests in the philosophy of mind and language.

SCHOOL OF EARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

My research focuses on the forcings and mechanisms of climate and carbon cycle change through geochemical records and modelling of past climatic events.

SCHOOL OF EARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

I lead the Climate Dynamics Lab at St Andrews, studying the fundamental processes controlling Earth’s climate. To advance understanding, I build new physical theories and combine these with a hierarchy of numerical models and observational data.

SCHOOL OF CLASSICS

I am a classicist with interests in the Roman Empire and late antiquity. My research focuses on the history and representation of human-environment relations in the ancient Mediterranean, and on environmental humanities approaches to the history of mountains and mountaineering.

SCHOOL OF EARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

I am an oceanographer and climate scientist. My research is concerned with understanding how climate-relevant tracers, such as heat and carbon dioxide, are taken up by, stored within, and transported around the ocean.

SCHOOL OF HISTORY

My research focuses on culture and religion c. 400-900. I am particularly interested in the movement of ideas and people across Eurasia and Africa and the consequences of the exchanges involved.

SCHOOL OF PSYCHOLOGY AND NEUROSCIENCE

I am a social psychologist broadly interested in intergroup relations and conflict, prejudice and discrimination, and social perception. Recently this has included intergroup relations surrounding climate protest and other action. 

SCHOOL OF PHILOSOPHY

I am a lecturer in philosophy at the University of St Andrews, working mainly on the history of philosophy (17th C – current day) but also on issues in contemporary philosophy, such as environmental ethics, animal ethics, and the philosophy of climate change.