Dr Sarah Knight
ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow
Profile
Biography
Sarah is an interdisciplinary researcher specialising in nature-society relationships and geospatial approaches. She is interested in employing quantitative, qualitative and participatory methods to study GIS, green and blue spaces, health & well-being inequalities & ecology. Sarah is currently an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow, investigating the links between socioeconomic and environmental inequalities and nature connectedness and leads the ESRC-funded Green & Gender-just Cities project.
Prior to this, Sarah worked with Professor Piran White on a Green Social Prescribing evaluation project, and with Dr Jasper Kenter and SEI-Y on the PERICLES project, managing the online mapping platform to crowd-source coastal and maritime cultural heritage data.
Sarah completed an ESRC White Rose funded PhD in 2020 on measuring the relationship between the natural environment and subjective well-being. This involved using regression methods to explore the determinants of human well-being from green/bluespace, air pollution, and biodiversity datasets at small-scale UK geographies. She is also a Data Impact Fellow with the UK Data Service. Prior to joining the department, she worked in the environmental conservation sector for nearly 10 years in organisations such as UNEP-WCMC, FERA and ZSL.
Career
| 2021-present | ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow | Department of Environment and Geography, University of York |
| 2019-2021 | Participatory GIS Researcher | Department of Environment and Geography, University of York |
| 2014-2020 | PhD Student | Department of Environment and Geography, University of York |
| 2008-2014 | GIS Scientist | Imperial College London/FERA/UNEP-WCMC |
| 2007-2008 | MRes Ecology and Environmental Management | Department of Biology, University of York |
| 2005-2007 | Development Officer | Zoological Society for London |
| 2001-2004 | BSc Geography | University of Sheffield |
