Dr Catherine Butler

Catherine Butler is Associate Professor in Human Geography within the Environment and Sustainability Research Group. Her research examines processes of societal transitions required to address environmental challenges and linked issues of equity, justice, and wellbeing. Dr Butler has published widely in this area (> 50 journal articles) including her recent book (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) which brought focus on issues of inequality by looking at how sustainable transitions might also address energy poverty in the UK. She has coordinated and led >16 externally funded research projects that address issues spanning public engagement with energy system transitions, impacts of environmental change for health and wellbeing, and energy poverty, inequality, and justice within processes of change. She is Chair of the Royal Geographical Society Energy Geographies Research Group, formerly Convenor of the British Sociological Association Climate Change study group, and associate editor for the journals Environmental Research Letters: Climate Change, Frontiers in Climate, and GEO: Geography and Environment. She has supervised multiple PhD students across a diverse range of topics and serves on the University's Climate Taskforce as an advocate for sustainability in education developing key initiatives to advance ESD within the sector.