Dr Lois Pennington is a Research Associate at the University of Manchester. Her work focuses on transport and city-level climate action, with a particular focus on the cultural and tourism sectors. She is currently working on Themes 2 and 3…
Dr Ganga Shreedhar
Dr Ganga Shreedhar is an Assistant Professor of Behavioural Science at the London School of Economics and co-director of the MSc in Behavioural Science programme. Her research explores how different systemic actors-from individuals and communities to organisations-perceive and respond to…
Ben Eddie
Researcher-practitioner working at the intersection of culture, climate, and the live music sector. Ben Eddie is a doctoral researcher and live events practitioner with over 15 years’ experience across cultural and corporate sectors, including live events delivery and lecturing, and holds…
Marina Ebbage
Marina Ebbage is a PhD student at the University of East Anglia. Her research explores the political and societal barriers to achieving net zero. She examines how publics, stakeholder groups and politicians view hard-to-change behaviours, often called ‘sticky issues’, such as flying and…
Helen Roberts
Helen Roberts joined the Met Office as a trainee weather forecaster in 2003, and spent much of her career as an Operational Meteorologist working in a variety of sectors, including military, transport, retail and media. Having completed an MSc in psychology, Helen is the…
Matt Newbould
Matt Newbould is a PhD researcher at the Tyndall Centre in Manchester, working under the supervision of Claire Hoolohan and Stefan Bouzarovski on beyond-human geographies and their interactions with systems of care, repair and maintenance for social and built infrastructures.…
Dr Aimie Hope
Dr Aimie Hope is a Research Associate focusing on learning for transformational climate mitigation. Aimie joined CAST in October 2025 and will be examining the Centre’s Phase 1 research, activities and outputs to understand where findings have applicability across contexts,…
Leila Zadi
Leila Zadi is a PhD researcher based at the University of Bath, working through the Centre for Doctoral Training in Green Industrial Futures. Her current project is focused on environmental protest groups and their level of contribution to policy making…
Benjamin Armstrong
Benjamin Armstrong is an MSc student at the University of Stirling studying Psychological Research Methods. He is interested in how worldviews and beliefs affect perspectives on climate change, particularly regarding religion and morality. Benjamin’s work previously focused on the topic…
Ruth Townend
An anthropologist by training, Ruth Townend’ decade and a half of research on the role the public can play in climate action cuts across academic, think-tank, industry and government contexts, including studies for the UK government, devolved administrations, and the…