Current and recent research projects

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Principal investigator; UK NERC and British Geological Survey (BGS) grant to inform design of and public engagement with a UK Carbon Storage Research Facility; research co-designed with the BGS

UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) large grant; I am responsible for the social science (public perception and communication) work package

Clean Energy Transition Partnership (EU-funded) grant; I am working with Scottish Carbon Capture and Storage to deliver the work package on communicating risk within the carbon storage industry

Large Horizon Europe (European Commission) project; my role focuses on making social science research on carbon capture, use, and storage publicly accessible and available

Project funded by the United Arab Emirates Ministry of the Interior to understand public responses to electric vehicles, identify barrier to adoption, and assess policy directions; I lead the survey work package

Principal investigator; year-long fellowship from the Royal Society of Edinburgh to examine the role of diverse Scottish institutions in shaping local to international climate governance 

Principal investigator; UK NERC grant to compare public responses to induced and tectonic seismic events from a range of causes; highly interdisciplinary team

Norwegian Research Council funded project comparing and evaluating government COVID risk communication across five countries; I led the survey design and data analysis

UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) grant examining evolution in views on 'fracking'; I led our four-wave longitudinal survey (2019, 2020, 2021, 2022)