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Faculty and Departmental Leads
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Faculty lead for Arts and Humanities Faculty lead for DUBS ____________________________________ Departmental lead for Engineering Departmental lead for Archeology Departmental lead for Anthropology Departmental lead for Physical Geography Departmental lead for DUBS |
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University Sustainability lead |
Faculty and Departmental Leads Biographies
Simona Capisani - Faculty lead for Arts and Humanities
Simona Capisani is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Philosophy at Durham University. She specializes in political philosophy, ethics (normative and applied), and environmental philosophy with a focus on intersecting issues including climate justice, philosophy of immigration, gender, global, and social justice. Her current research addresses moral, political, legal, and policy questions of climate-related mobilities justice (including displacement, migration, and immobility). She also focuses on issues related to just energy transitions, climate finance, indigenous rights, and the intersection of housing justice and climate resilience. Prior to joining the Department of Philosophy at Durham University, Simona was a Climate Futures Iniative research scholar at Princeton University in the Center for Human Values and High Meadows Environmental Institute.
Laura Marsiliani - Faculty lead for DUBS
Laura Marsiliani is Professor of Economics at Durham University Business School and Faculty Lead and Fellow of the Durham University Centre for Sustainable Development Law and Policy (CSDLP). She is also Associate Dean for Ethics, Responsibility and Sustainability, Fellow of the Durham Energy Institute, and Co-Director of the Centre for Environmental and Energy Economics (CE3). Her research focuses on environmental and energy economics, public economics and political economy, with particular interests in environmental policy, energy markets, decarbonisation and the transition to net zero. Her interdisciplinary work examines how economic policy can support sustainable, equitable and low-carbon development.
Karen Johnson - Departmental lead for Engineering
Professor Karen Johnson is an environmental engineer who works in climate change adaptation and more recently mitigation. Her research is about using mineral wastes as resources to rebuild soil health for increased nutrition and food security as well as flood and drought resilience, addressing SDGs3, 13 and 15.
Dan Lawrence
Dan Lawrence is a Professor in the Archaeology department at Durham, and a specialist in the archaeology of Southwest Asia. His research focuses on the role of climate change in the emergence, persistence and collapse of complex societies in this region, which includes some of the earliest and longest lasting cities, states and empires anywhere in the world. He is particularly interested in the lessons for our present-day challenges which can be drawn from the record of past human adaptation in the face of changing environmental circumstances. Dan also works on heritage management and protection in the MENA region, and is involved in projects which address training and skills gaps for local heritage professionals.
Andrew Russell - Departmental lead for Anthropology
Andrew Russell is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology, specialising in Global and Planetary Health research and practice. He is interested in the points of tension between different Sustainable Development Goals (e.g. between SDG3 ‘Good Health and Well-being’ and SDG8 ‘Decent Work and Economic Growth’), and the relationship between these and SDG13 ‘Climate Action’.
As an anthropologist, he is interested in Framework Conventions as novel forms of social organization. He attended the UNFCCC COP28 in Glasgow in 2021 and wrote several blog pieces comparing the organization and ways of working of this COP with the COPs he has attended through the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. He is committed to better green transport options for all.
Chris Stokes - Departmental lead for Physical Geography
Professor Chris Stokes is Professor of Geography at Durham University and Departmental Lead for Physical Geography at the Centre for Sustainable Development Law and Policy (CSDLP). His research focuses on glaciers, ice sheets and their interactions with the climate system, with particular emphasis on their responses to climate change. He uses satellite remote sensing, field observations and numerical modelling to investigate changes in glaciers and ice sheets across timescales. His research spans the world’s major glaciated regions, including Antarctica, Greenland and mountain glaciers. Chris regularly engages with policymakers through the UN climate change conferences (COPs), contributing scientific evidence to discussions on climate change and sea-level rise.
Jane Simmons - Senior Sustainability Manager
Jane leads the Sustainability Team who work on Biodiversity, Environmental Compliance, Sustainability Engagement with staff, students and the wider community; Active and Sustainable Travel; and Waste and Recycling. The team also convenes the University-wide Environmental Sustainability Strategic Planning Group (ESSPG) which meets termly and is lead by CSDLP's Director Prof Petra Minnerop.
Jane ensures the research carried out by CSDLP is accessed and applied where relevant within the University's own sustainability strategy and operations.