Climate, Hazards and Environmental Change Research Cluster

The members of the Climate, Hazards and Environmental Change Research Cluster draw 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 adaptation, flooding, wildfires, tsunamis, volcanoes, environmental archaeology and paleoecology, public perceptions of environmental change and sustainability, political ecologies of resource extraction, social movements and the environment, environmental education and pedagogy, and climate change impacts and vulnerabilities.  

Our team 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.  

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, Global Development and Sustainability, Environmental Science, Wildlife Conservation and Biology among others.  

The Climate, Hazards and Environmental Change Research Cluster is affiliated with both the Centre for Research on Science and Society and the Research Centre for Environmental Humanities.  

Get in touch

If you're interested in our research, please contact our group director, Dr Jim Jeffers (j.jeffers@bathspa.ac.uk), or any member of our group.