Sustainability Clinic staff spotlight: Dr Kelly Redeker
Read about one of the Sustainability Clinic's Expert Advisors, Dr Kelly Redeker, and why he decided to take on this role for the Clinic.
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We are continuing to introduce some of the dedicated staff team behind the Sustainability Clinic. Our Sustainability Clinic Expert Advisors have been supporting our student groups throughout this semester, providing subject-specific expertise and general assistance to all staff and students engaged in the module.
Meet one of our expert advisors, Dr Kelly Redeker from the Department of Biology, who has shared a bit about what he does at the University, and why he decided to take on this role for the Clinic. Read Kelly’s story below.
Tell us a bit about your current role at the University.
I am a lecturer in the Department of Biology.
Tell us about your background and area of expertise.
What I do is a little more complicated, but easiest to say that I work on "Implications of land use change and management on ecosystem function and climate" specifically focusing on 1) land-use change, 2) climate change, 3) biogeochemistry, 4) metabolomics, 5) volatilomics.
The Redeker Lab engages in multidisciplinary approaches that develop and explore solutions to global developmental challenges, providing quantitative analytical methods when needed. We explore how changing land use, particularly coastal and agricultural lands, affects ecosystem function (particularly pollution retention/remediation, carbon storage, and agricultural pest control), considering other non-environmental perspectives (i.e. how these changes may impact human health and social inequality).
What aspect of your Expert Advisor role are you excited about?
I am very much looking forward to working with students from a broad range of backgrounds and experiences on real world challenges.
A huge thanks to Kelly for sharing more about his involvement in the Sustainability Clinic.
About the Sustainability Clinic
The Sustainability Clinic forms part of York’s suite of interdisciplinary modules and is available to students from across the University. To date, 300 students and 51 partner organisations have participated in Clinic projects, which brings together students and the local community to tackle pressing sustainability issues. Working in teams, students are given a project brief that has been co-produced with a community organisation, charity, SME or local government, focusing on a sustainability challenge faced by the organisation. All projects are designed to develop students’ employability skills while adding capacity to local organisations to tackle the challenges of environmental sustainability.
Initially piloted as voluntary activity, from 2023/24, the Sustainability Clinic is now available as an interdisciplinary undergraduate and postgraduate elective module. The Sustainability Clinic has been developed in partnership by Careers and Placements, the Baroness Hale Law Clinic, York Environmental Sustainability Institute and Environmental Sustainability at York.