I am an assistant professor in the department of geography where I lead the Climate Change Adaptation Research Group. I am originally from Manchester, England, and did my BA and MSc at Oxford, PhD at Guelph, before moving to Montreal in 2006. My work takes place at the interface between climate and society, and I am particularly interested in climate change vulnerability and adaptation. I lead a diversity of initiatives in this area, including projects focusing on Indigenous peoples and climate change (with a major focus on the Arctic), developing adaptation plans with communities and industry, and examining ways to create ‘usable’ science. Resource management, natural hazards, and health, are overarching topics within these themes. Along with my colleagues, I am also developing novel approaches to tracking climate change adaptation at global and regional levels, developing systematic review approaches in an environmental change context, and I am involved in adaptation monitoring and evaluation debates. I am currently an editor at the journal Regional Environmental Change, and have contributed widely to the human dimensions of climate change scholarship
