Sustainable Consumption Institute

Joanna began her PhD, funded by the Sustainable Consumption Institute, in September 2016 after having gained her MSc Human Geography (cum laude) at the University of Amsterdam.  Her focus throughout her Master degree was in Environmental Geography with a particular focus on gender and climate change.  To this effect, her thesis project took a feminist look at the UK’s climate change policy and presented an intersectional feminist tool for ensuring gendered consideration are considered more widely in climate change politics.  Prior to studying in Amsterdam Joanna gained her undergraduate degree at the University of Aberdeen.

Joanna is continuing to research gender and climate change in her PhD and her thesis project is concerned with tracing ‘gender’ throughout COP events beginning with the Paris Agreement.  Joanna will be researching the ways in which gender is, or is not, inserted into climate change politics with a particular focus on the process of how this happens.  In other words, who or what holds the power in negotiations, how has this power been challenged and what success have such challenges have had and how can feminists continue to challenge this to ensure a feminist vision of climate change politics? 

Supervisors: Dr Sherilyn MacGregor and Professor Matthew Paterson