About Me

I am Camellia (Cammy), a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Geography, Royal Holloway University of London, working at the intersection of climate (in)justice, urban geography, and disaster studies. I received my PhD in Humanities and Social Sciences in June 2024, with a specialisation in environmental anthropology.

For my postdoc, I am exploring the impacts of thermal climate stress in the global informal and construction sectors in Cambodia, using both qualitative and quantitative methods. 

In my PhD, I worked on the cultural and political ecologies of climate disasters (cyclones and floods) in the Indian Sundarbans. There, I learned how rising climate vulnerability reshapes human–non-human relationships, particularly through everyday practices of cohabitation.

With over seven years of immersive fieldwork experience, my research integrates ethnography, oral narratives, visual documentation, and participatory/creative methodologies such as mapping and storytelling. An attempt at decolonial commitment to working alongside local communities and to recognizing their relations with landscapes, environments, and non-human lives grounds my research ethos.

Research Interests: Disaster studies; Human-nonhuman/multispecies studies; Political ecology; Climate Justice; Cultural Heritage

Fieldwork regions:

• India—West Bengal & Gujarat

• Cambodia

• Scotland – Orkney Islands