Experience

The Centre for Climate Change and Social Transformations

• United Kingdom
• Research Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Post-Doctoral Research Associate

  • Apr 2021 - Present

  As a Research Associate working with CAST from Cardiff University I am currently working with Welsh Government, Scottish Government and DEG Cymru. My responsibilities include developing and analysing deliberative roundtable discussions with policymakers and stakeholders in government and business across four areas; Food and Diet, Transport and Mobility, Material Consumption, and Heating and Cooling. I specialise in climate deliberation and climate assemblies, currently collaborating with KNoCA and DEG Cymru in both academic and practitioner based roles. I am also working on project with Scottish Government related to Transport, developing public engagement and communication materials aimed at reducing driving. Show less



Cardiff University / Prifysgol Caerdydd

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Tutor / Dissertation Supervisor

  • Oct 2016 - Aug 2021

  2020-2021 Final year undergraduate research project and dissertation supervision, helping students to design, collect, analyse and report their research projects. 2016-2018 Teaching undergraduate psychology students statistical analysis and report writing skills, as well as additional pastoral care and advice.

• PhD Researcher

  • Oct 2016 - Apr 2021

  Public acceptability of degrowth and low consumption lifestyles: understanding consumer experience, policy support and behaviour change.My thesis to generated an understanding of how the public would view a transition towards low consumption lifestyles and away from growth-centrism and free market economies by examining acceptability of specific behaviour change strategies and policy development related to concepts of degrowth and socio-ecological harmony. Responsibilities included designing, implementing, and analysing a multi-stage critical realist mixed-methods research project. The qualitative research was carried out using deliberative focus groups with the public, and data was analysed using a thematic analysis. The results informed a quantitative experiment exploring framing effect of social norm activation and hypocrisy inducement upon policy acceptance and behavioural intentions. Show less

• Research Assistant

  • May 2015 - Oct 2016

  Academic role at the Understanding Risk Research Group investigating issues concerned with environmental psychology. Research work on a variety of projects concerned with Pro-Environmental Behaviours, Behavioural Spillover Effect, Perceptions of Energy Transitions, Energy Efficiency and Climate Change Mitigation.



University of Bath

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Associate

  • Oct 2020 - Feb 2021

  Interdisciplinary research project between School of Psychology and School of Architecture and Civil Engineering. The project focusses on resident cooling behaviour and household appliance use in India, in order to reach zero peak energy demand.Responsibilities included a thematic analysis of interview data and academic journal writing for publication. Research findings will also be used to design a quantitative survey to supplement smart-meter data collection for measuring behavioural components to energy use. Show less

• Research Associate

  • Sep 2019 - Sep 2020

  Lead post-doctoral researcher a collaborative project with BANES local authority. Responsibilities for designing, implementing, analysing and communicating the mixed methods research project using insights from moral psychology and transport behaviour. Interviews with residents of Bath and the surrounding area were analysed using discourse analysis to examine rhetorical justification of transport choices and perspectives on the Clean Air Zone. A large-scale experimental quantitative questionnaire investigated framing effects upon policy acceptance and associated behavioural intention.Research findings were presented as a final report and workshop, complete with policy recommendations and implementation advice. Show less



ThinkYoung

• Belgium
• Think Tanks
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Researcher & Project Manager

  • May 2014 - Sep 2014

  Project Management of a research project on the Values of Young Europeans and their political engagement. Project Management of a research project on the Values of Young Europeans and their political engagement.


Bristol City Council
• United Kingdom
• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee
• Learning Support Assistant

  • Dec 2012 - Sep 2013

Network Recycling Group
• Renewable Energy Semiconductor Manufacturing
• Supervisor

  • May 2011 - Sep 2011