People

Supervisors and mentors - along with the Directorate a range of other academics from across disciplines form our staff and student supervision teams

Professor Colin Beale - I work on a wide range of ecological problems from population dynamics and distributions to fire ecology in the African savannah.

Professor Nik Brown - My areas of research concern the biopolitics of immunity in a wide range of empirical contexts.

Professor Neil Carter - I am interested in all aspects of environmental politics and policy, with a particular interest in climate policy and politics. 

Dr Steve Cinderby - I specialise in the use of geographic information systems (GIS), participatory methods and behaviour change initiatives.

Dr Sabine Clarke - My research considers the relationship between scientific research and visions of economic and social development in the British colonies after 1940.

Professor Peter Coventry -  I work across all elements of applied health services research, using evidence synthesis, qualitative methods and trials with a focus on evaluating complex interventions for people with mental health problems and long term conditions.

Professor Kanchon Dasmahapatra - I apply genetic and genomic data to understand interesting evolutionary questions, in particular the causes of speciation.

Dr Alison Dyke - I work on nature-society relations, particularly focused on interactions between humans and trees, biosecurity, plant health and wild harvest.

Professor Kate Giles - I am a buildings archaeologist with a specialism in the recording, archival research and theoretical interpretation of historic buildings.

Dr Jon Green - I work to trace the impacts of consumption on biodiversity, via often-complex chains of trade in agricultural commodities.

Dr Shane Hamilton - My research focuses on the historical political economy of agribusiness.

Dr Anika Haque - My research sits at the intersection of society, environment and development. I am particularly interested in structural inequalities at city level.

Professor Tony Heron - My research interests include global food systems, sustainability governance, global value chains, the political economy of the UK’s independent trade policy and agricultural reform in the context of Brexit.  

Professor Jane Hill - I study the impacts of climate change and habitat loss on species to understand their responses to environmental change.

Dr Luisa Huaccho Huatuco - My expertise in manufacturing systems' complexity, contextualises my current research interests including sustainable supply chains.

Dr Teresa Kittler - My research focuses on artistic practices from 1945 to present day, with a special interest in Italian post-war art, primarily on issues related to art and the environment and feminism.

Dr Felicia Liu - My work focuses on sustainable finance as an important tool in (re)mediating the relationship between human and non-human nature in contemporary times.

Dr Simon Mair - My research interests include the post-growth and degrowth economics, post-capitalism, and alternative economies.

Professor Nicky Milner - My research mainly focuses on the Mesolithic period; palaeodiet and consumption practices are among my interests, along with settlement, mobility and the analysis of seasonality information. 

Dr Rachel Pateman - I am a mixed methods researcher interested in citizen science and the health and well-being benefits of urban green spaces.

Professor Jon Pitchford - I use mathematical models and apply methods from dynamical systems and stochastic processes together with computer simulations to study challenging biodiversity problems.

Dr Amanda Rees - My research areas include the sociology of human/animal relation, field science, the public presentation of scientific knowledge and the representation of science in fiction.

Dr Julie Rugg - I have expertise in cemetery research both nationally and internationally. In the UK, the study of changing burial practice has recognised the need to understand developments at a local level.

Professor Erica Sheen - My research is in the Renaissance and in cinema, especially American and European cinemas in the Cold War. I work on animals as well as people.

Professor Helen Smith - My current research includes tracing the liveliness of matter and making the case for literature as a means of engaging with and assaying the world around us. 

Professor Lindsay Stringer - My research is conceptually anchored in areas including global environmental governance, political ecology and socio-ecological systems science.

Professor Jacco Thijssen - My main research interests are in mathematical models of dynamic decision making in general, and investment under uncertainty (real options) in particular.

Professor Chris Thomas - I am interested in understanding biologival and human processes that give rise to species being successful, the ways people exploit them, and the ways successful species exploit humans. 

Dr Julia Touza - My research explores environmental problems driven by economic factors, and evaluates the strategic behaviour of natural resource users/managers in a temporal-spatial context.

Professor Mark Vellend - My research focuses on plant population and community responses to environmental change.

Professor Victoria Wells - I am interested in the role the environment plays in consumers’ behaviour whether it is how the environment affects consumer choices or how consumers’ behaviour affects the physical environment.

Dr Chris West - My current research focuses on the role of commodity trade and supply chains in driving environmental change, where I have a particular interest in effects on biodiversity and tropical deforestation.

Professor Piran White - I lead the University of York’s involvement in the Australian-based Co-operative Research Centre on Invasive Animals.