Katie is a Tyndall Centre Research Lecturer at the University of East Anglia. She has over thirteen years’ experience working on multidisciplinary projects focused on the integrated assessment of climate-related risks and adaptation strategies. She has expertise in developing methodologies and modelling tools to assess social and economic consequences of climate change; assessing adaptation strategies from an interdisciplinary perspective; and the co-production of policy-relevant adaptation and climate impact inventories.
Katie’s key research interests include:
– The role of adaptation data and reporting in supporting current and future decision making, including the development of methods to enhance the utility of adaptation inventories and reporting to larger assessment processes.
– The integrated assessment of climate risks, social and economic impacts, and adaptation strategies. Key aspects include developing a range of methodologies and modelling tools to assess social and direct and indirect economic impacts of climate change, particularly related to drought, water scarcity, high temperatures and heatwaves.
Current Projects:
Katie is part of the UKRI/Defra funded Maximising UK Adaptation to Climate Change (MACC) Hub, set up to respond to the urgent need for a comprehensive, transdisciplinary framework to strengthen the UK’s resilience to cascading climate impacts. Katie is the UEA PI leading work to interpret outputs from the OpenCLIM project (see below) to support active, place-based adaptation activities.
Katie is also Co-I on a UKRI/Horizon Europe project Cross-EU (Cross-sectoral Framework for Socio-Economic Resilience to Climate Change and Extreme Events on Europe), supporting the overall co-design and operationalisation of the Cross-EU method to harmonise risk and impact analysis across the wider project and compiling a new climate hazard and risk inventory for the EU.
Recently Completed Projects:
Katie has recently completed a project to provide the first place-based climate risk assessment for the Fens, funded by the Environment Agency, with outputs available here. She has also contributed to the DESNZ funded project Climate Services for a Net Zero resilient world (CS-N0W) analysing climate-related risks at a Global, Regional and Country Scale, providing scientific knowledge to contribute to evidence-based climate policy in the UK and internationally. Other recent projects include the OpenCLIM (Open CLimate IMpacts modelling framework) project with the overarching aim to develop and apply a first UK integrated assessment for climate impacts and adaptation.
