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Alice Hague
Alice is an Environmental Social Scientist in the Social, Economic and Geographical Sciences Department. Her research takes an interdisciplinary approach, and focuses broadly on community engagement with environmental issues and climate change, sustainability transitions, and connections between people and nature. She has been 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 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 May 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.
Bibliography
- Eastwood, A.; Fischer, A.; Hague, A.; Brown, K.M. (2022) A cup of tea? - The role of social dimensions in land managers' adaptations to policy change., Land Use Policy, 113, paper 105926.
- Eastwood, A.; Juárez-Bourke, A.; Herrett, S.; Hague, A. (2021) Connecting young people with greenspaces: the case for participatory video., People and Nature. Published online.
- Staddon, S.; Byg, A.; Chapman, M.; Fish, R.; Hague, A.; Horgan, K. (2021) Value of listening and listening for values in conservation., People and Nature. Published online.
- Hague, A. (2021) Practicing climate justice in the local church., The Scottish Episcopal Institute Journal, 5.3, 13-20
- Hague, A. (2021) Grounded in community: Christianity and environmental engagement in Scotland., In: Silvern, S.E. & Davis, E.H. (eds.). Religion, Sustainability and Place: Moral Geographies for the Anthropocene. Palgrave Macmillan, pp277-301.
- Irvine, K.N.; Msika, J.; Dinnie, E.; Craig, T.; Fischer, A.; Hague, A.; Rajagopalan, D.; Roberts, M.; Wilson, R. (2020) Climate change engagement: assessing the impacts of the Climate Challenge Fund., ClimateXChange Report, 164pp.
- Matthews, K..B.; Blackstock, K.L.; Waylen, K.A.; Juarez-Bourke, A.; Miller, D.G.; Wardell-Johnson, D.H.; Rivington, M.; Hague, A.; Fisher, D.; Renner, A.; Cadillo-Benalcazar, J.; Schyns, J.; Giampietro, M. (2020) Report on EU sustainability goals: insights from quantitative story telling and WEFE nexus., MAGIC (H2020-GA 689669) Project Deliverable 5.1, 31 July 2020, 136pp.
- Hague, A.; Eastwood, A.; Lorenzo-Arribas, A.; Juarez-Bourke, A.; Herrett, S.; Byg, A.; Fischer, A. (2019) Glasdrum Wood National Nature Reserve: Exploring the perceived impacts of different management interventions on woodland benefits., Workshop Report distributed to 1.3.2 website and sent directly to participants & additional stakeholders.
- Kidwell, J.; Ginn, F.; Northcott, M.; Bomberg, E.; Hague, A. (2018) Christian climate care: Slow change, modesty and eco-theo-citizenship., Geo: Geography and Environment, 5, Article No. e00059.
- Eastwood, A.; Juarez Bourke, A.; Lorenzo-Arribas, A.; Fischer, A.; Herrett, S.; Donaldson-Selby, G.; Hague, A.; Pakeman, R.J.; Hester, A.J.; Artz, R.R.E. (2018) Glen Creran Woods: Exploring the perceived impacts of different management interventions on woodland benefits., Workshop Report, Appin Village Hall, Port Appin, Argyll, 23 April 2018, 18pp.
- Eastwood, A.; Fischer, A.; Hague, A.; Brown, K.M. (2022) A cup of tea? - The role of social dimensions in land managers' adaptations to policy change., Land Use Policy, 113, paper 105926.
- Eastwood, A.; Juárez-Bourke, A.; Herrett, S.; Hague, A. (2021) Connecting young people with greenspaces: the case for participatory video., People and Nature. Published online.
- Staddon, S.; Byg, A.; Chapman, M.; Fish, R.; Hague, A.; Horgan, K. (2021) Value of listening and listening for values in conservation., People and Nature. Published online.
- Hague, A. (2021) Practicing climate justice in the local church., The Scottish Episcopal Institute Journal, 5.3, 13-20
- Kidwell, J.; Ginn, F.; Northcott, M.; Bomberg, E.; Hague, A. (2018) Christian climate care: Slow change, modesty and eco-theo-citizenship., Geo: Geography and Environment, 5, Article No. e00059.
- Bomberg, E.; Hague, A. (2018) Faith-based climate action in Christian congregations: mobilisation and spiritual resources., Local Environment, 23, 582-596.
- Hague, A. (2021) Grounded in community: Christianity and environmental engagement in Scotland., In: Silvern, S.E. & Davis, E.H. (eds.). Religion, Sustainability and Place: Moral Geographies for the Anthropocene. Palgrave Macmillan, pp277-301.
- Irvine, K.N.; Msika, J.; Dinnie, E.; Craig, T.; Fischer, A.; Hague, A.; Rajagopalan, D.; Roberts, M.; Wilson, R. (2020) Climate change engagement: assessing the impacts of the Climate Challenge Fund., ClimateXChange Report, 164pp.
- Matthews, K..B.; Blackstock, K.L.; Waylen, K.A.; Juarez-Bourke, A.; Miller, D.G.; Wardell-Johnson, D.H.; Rivington, M.; Hague, A.; Fisher, D.; Renner, A.; Cadillo-Benalcazar, J.; Schyns, J.; Giampietro, M. (2020) Report on EU sustainability goals: insights from quantitative story telling and WEFE nexus., MAGIC (H2020-GA 689669) Project Deliverable 5.1, 31 July 2020, 136pp.
- Hague, A.; Eastwood, A.; Lorenzo-Arribas, A.; Juarez-Bourke, A.; Herrett, S.; Byg, A.; Fischer, A. (2019) Glasdrum Wood National Nature Reserve: Exploring the perceived impacts of different management interventions on woodland benefits., Workshop Report distributed to 1.3.2 website and sent directly to participants & additional stakeholders.
- Eastwood, A.; Juarez Bourke, A.; Lorenzo-Arribas, A.; Fischer, A.; Herrett, S.; Donaldson-Selby, G.; Hague, A.; Pakeman, R.J.; Hester, A.J.; Artz, R.R.E. (2018) Glen Creran Woods: Exploring the perceived impacts of different management interventions on woodland benefits., Workshop Report, Appin Village Hall, Port Appin, Argyll, 23 April 2018, 18pp.
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