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Alice Hague

Staff picture: Alice Hague
Social, Economic and Geographical Sciences
Social, Economic and Geographical Sciences
Environmental Social Scientist
alice.hague@hutton.ac.uk

The James Hutton Institute
Craigiebuckler
Aberdeen AB15 8QH
Scotland UK

 

Alice is an Environmental Social Scientist in the Social, Economic and Geographical Sciences Department. Her research focuses broadly on local-level engagement with environmental issues and climate change, sustainability transitions and the circular economy. She was awarded a PCAN Fellowship (2020-2021) by the Place-based Climate Action Network (funded by the ESRC) for a study investigating climate adaptation policy and action at the local level, looking at the north-east of Scotland as a case study. Alice also serves as Group Leader for our Environmental Governance research group.

Alice has a background in environmental science, science communication, and science and climate change policy. Alice began her career in science communication and science policy, and previously worked as Head of Science and Innovation for the Nordic region as part of the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office’s Science and Innovation Network. She spent a year on secondment to the climate change team at the Swedish Ministry for the Environment and was a delegate to the UNFCCC climate change negotiations during this period.

She is a member of the Political Studies Association and the International Association for People-Environment Studies, and an Associate Fellow of the UK's Higher Education Academy (HEA).
 

Current research interests

  • Community engagement with climate change mitigation and adaptation.
  • Climate change governance and participation at the local and national level.
  • Social understandings, discourse, and interaction with nature and biodiversity
  • People-nature interactions and biodiversity.

Past research

Alice joined the James Hutton Institute in 2018 after completing her PhD at the University of Edinburgh. Her earlier research investigated the engagement of Christian faith communities in environmental issues, with a particular focus on the motivations for, and practices of, local-level environmental action.

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