Alice Bows-Larkin at TEDGlobal London – June 16, 2015, Faraday Lecture Hall, Royal Institution of Great Britain, London, England. Photo: James Duncan Davidson/TED
Alice is currently Director of Tyndall Manchester, an active researcher in the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research and lecturers on topics related to energy and decarbonisation within the School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering (MACE), University of Manchester. Alice trained as an astrophysicist at the University of Leeds, did her PhD in climate modelling at Imperial College, then worked in science communication. She returned to academia in 2003 joining the interdisciplinary Tyndall Centre to research conflicts between climate change and aviation. In 2008 she was appointed lecturer within the School of Earth Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, directing projects on international shipping and food supply scenarios within a climate change context. She took on a Senior Lectureship in MACE in 2011, to be able to make an explicit connection between her research and the broader policy context. Her work on international transport, energy systems and carbon budgets has had a significant impact on topical debates and policy development, including shaping the UK’s Climate Change Act and inclusion of aviation within UK and EU policy frameworks.
Alice currently leads research on decarbonising international shipping as part of the EPSRC’s Energy Programme, as well as a large consortium project on the Water-Energy-Food Nexus also funded by EPSRC. She leads the cross-University food@manchester network and is associate editor of the journal Carbon Management.
