My current research is on changes in climate and precipitation over southern Africa as part of the SALIENT project. I primarily focus on climate data analysis, using observational and global climate model data. However, I am also involved in other interdisciplinary elements to the SALIENT project, including contributing to an expert elicitation, exploring risk communication and understanding how climate information is used in practice.

Previous, I focussed my research on summer heat extremes in the UK. I am interested in how these extremes are changing, as well as how we can model and manage risks accosiated with extremes and heat stress. This work, which was part of the UK Climate Resilience Program funded OpenCLIM project, used the latest UK Met Office UKCP18 simulations. During this time I also carried out an embedded research placement with Climate Northern Ireland, using interdisciplinary methods to focus on climate change impacts on agriculture and rural areas in Northern Ireland.

I have worked across many scales. My PhD was in palaeoclimate, using global climate model simulations to understand changes in climate at the Eocene-Oligocene Transition, when the Antarctic Ice Sheet first formed. Further to this, previous topics of interest and research include climate hydrology (specifically the impact of soil moisture on temperate extremes), glacial hydrology (modelling the flow of water beneath Leverett Glacier in Greenland), Antarctic/Southern Ocean climate and oceanography (having volunteered as a research scientist on the RRS James Clark Ross on the ANDREXII cruise in the Weddell Sea in 2018) and long-term future climate (up to 1 million years into the future).