Professor Lorraine Whitmarsh MBE is our CAST Director and an environmental psychologist, specialising in perceptions and behaviour in relation to climate change, energy and transport, based at the University of Bath. As well as chairing the Executive Group, she is also responsible for synthesis activities within Theme 4, and co-leads a project on ‘learning from disruption and moments of change’ in Theme 2.
Her research projects have included studies of energy efficiency behaviours, waste reduction and carrier bag reuse, perceptions of smart technologies and electric vehicles, low-carbon lifestyles, and responses to climate change. Between 2014 and 2019, she held a prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant – Low-Carbon Lifestyles & Behavioural Spillover (CASPI) – and since 2019 she has held an ERC Consolidator Grant – Understanding and leveraging ‘moments of change’ for pro-environmental behaviour shifts (MOCHA). She is also a Lead Author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in Working Group II; and regularly advises governmental and other organisations on low-carbon behaviour change and climate change communication.
Lorraine can be contacted at info@cast.ac.uk. For any press or media-related queries, please email kw966@bath.ac.uk.
For more information, including Lorraine’s research outputs, view her University of Bath profile.
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