about catherine

I am a geographer based in Morecambe in the north-west of England. I currently work as a lecturer in the Sociology of Climate Change at Lancaster University. My current research is focused on environmental change, birds, and society. This research began from my love for Morecambe Bay but is currently being expanded around Englannd and Wales.

I was previously (2020-2022) employed at the Department of Geography, University of Cambridge on a ERC-funded project called Urban Ecologies: Governing nonhuman life in global cities. As part of this work, I am interested in developing conceptual and theoretical frameworks and methodological practice around interspecies relationalities and urban ecologies. I was researching the rise in urban chicken-keeping in London. 

I recently (2020) completed my PhD on vegan geographies, titled Towards a beyond-human geography: Veganism and multispecies worlds in the past, present and future, at the department of Human Geography, University of Birmingham. My PhD explored engagements, entanglements, and encounters with different kinds of subjects (animal, human, environmental, historical) as central to understanding veganism.