Prof Hilary Graham

Prof Hilary Graham is based in the Department of Health Sciences at the University of York. She has contributed to CAST research across themes, helping to ensure that research is communicated in ways that enable people, organisations and governments to take action…

Harriet Dudley

Harriet Dudley is a Climate Resilience Consultant at Mott MacDonald working on climate change risk assessments and adaptation reporting for organisations. In 2024 Harriet completed her PhD at the University of East Anglia. Her research was about the influence of…

Dr Olaya Moldes Andrés

Dr Olaya Moldes Andrés is a Lecturer in Marketing and Strategy at Cardiff Business School. She holds a PhD in Social Psychology from the University of Sussex, an MRes in Research Methods in Psychology, an MSc in Management and Entrepreneurship,…

Dr Stuart Capstick

Dr Stuart Capstick is an environmental social scientist whose research and interests focus on the role of the wider public in tackling the climate and nature emergency. He was based at Cardiff University from 2008-2023, where he worked on a…

Dr Katharine Steentjes

Dr Katharine Steentjes was CAST Co-ordinator based at Cardiff University and mainly responsible for designing and delivering project 1.4 under Theme 1, which entailed multi-wave, multi-country surveys on public perceptions of climate change with a special focus on the Centre’s…

Dr Lois Player

Lois Player is a Doctoral Researcher in the Department of Psychology at the University of Bath. Her PhD research explores the public acceptability of climate transport policies, and she routinely collaborates with local policymakers to help them design fair, effective…

Dr Kaloyan Mitev

Dr Kaloyan Mitev is an environmental psychologist and a behavioural scientist. He currently works at the Competence Centre for Behavioural Insights, EU Policy Lab, at the Joint Research Centre, EU Commission. His work is focused in the areas of climate change,…

Katharine Lee

Katharine Lee is a Research Associate in the Department of Psychology at the University of Bath. Her doctoral research explored adolescents’ understandings of and responses to climate change. Following this, she won an ESRC one-year postdoctoral fellowship to further expand…

Dr Caroline Verfuerth

Dr Caroline Verfuerth is a lecturer at Cardiff University Business School and her research is focused on creating a climate-friendly, healthier, and fairer food system. She joined Cardiff Business School in 2024 after working as a Research and Knowledge Exchange…

Dr Steve Westlake

Dr Steve Westlake is a Lecturer at the University of Bath. He was formerly a Research Fellow at Cardiff University and a Knowledge Exchange Associate for CAST, and has worked in the Climate Change Committee secretariat. Steve’s research explores how leading…