Melanie Flynn
- Email: gy08mjf@leeds.ac.uk
- Thesis title: Operationalising and evaluating knowledge mobilisation using participatory scenario planning in community-based Arctic research
- Supervisors: Professor James Ford, Professor Suraje Dessai
Profile
Melanie is a PhD student working with Indigenous communities in the Arctic to explore culturally appropriate ways to plan for and adapt to climate change. Her research interests include knowledge co-production, effective adaptation, participatory methods and usable science.
A member of:
- Priestley International Centre for Climate
- Climate Change Adaptation Research Group
- Climate Change Research Group
Research interests
- Knowledge mobilisation and creating usable science
- Community-based research
- Indigenous methodologies and decolonising methods
- Futures work and scenario approach
- Human dimensions of climate change impact, adaptation and vulnerability
- Developmental evaluation
Qualifications
- MSc, Environmental Risk and Human Security, United Nations University and University of Bonn
- BA, Geography, University of Leeds
Research groups and institutes
- Environment and Development
- Sustainability Research Institute
- Climate Change Adaptation, Vulnerability and Services