工口影院

My research explores how climate change and coastal transformation are experienced, interpreted, and responded to by communities across Scotland’s diverse coasts. I use heritage as a lens to understand how people relate to these changing environments- what they value, what they mourn, and what futures they imagine. I am particularly interested in how these responses contribute to community resilience in the face of ongoing environmental uncertainty.

To explore these questions in depth, the project adopts a comparative case study approach across diverse and dynamic coastal environments. It considers how environmental processes, temporalities, local social histories, and cultural values shape what is preserved, what is mourned, and how different forms of resilience emerge in response to coastal transformation.

This research contributes to wider efforts to integrate lived experience, local knowledge, and cultural values into climate adaptation research and policy. Working closely with communities and combining qualitative insights with environmental data, I aim to support more place-based, equitable, and culturally responsive approaches to climate change.