Kai Greenlees is a PhD student at the University of Exeter in the Department of Geography. Kai’s broad research interests seek to understand the intersection of individual and systems change to enable rapid climate mitigation and a just transition. Their PhD research, co-supervised by Professor Tim Lenton and Professor Lorraine Whitmarsh, with funding from the Southwest Doctoral Training Partnership, explores this dynamic through the framework of positive tipping points for decarbonising domestic heating in the UK.
As an environmental social scientist, Kai seeks to integrate insights of social psychology and systems science to explore if and how integrating behavioural insights with social change theories of tipping points can be leveraged to support rapid and equitable decarbonisation of one of the UK’s most challenging sectors. Kai previously worked as a policy analyst at the Carbon Trust and received a Watson Fellowship to research climate action.