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Read our guidance on applying for an LCAB funded studentship
The Centre’s core research is developing an improved understanding of biodiversity gains; how humans are causing, responding to, and sometimes benefitting from those gains, and how human responses in turn affect subsequent biodiversity change.
We use a combination of methods from multiple disciplines within the Centre’s four Research Programmes to address the following key issues:
Biodiversification: Understanding how human impacts and biological processes underpin changes to biodiversity and ecosystems. Tackling radical questions about the growth of biological diversity and rates at which new species are coming into existence.
Philias and phobias: Identifying the causes and consequences of varied human attitudes to the growth and loss of biodiversity. Considering personal, historical and cultural circumstances and points of view which influence societal responses to these changes.
Utility: Establishing both the benefits and harms we experience from human-altered biodiversity and novel ecosystems. Evaluating the socioeconomic, political, geographical, historical and cultural circumstances under which these changes exist.
Moulding the future: Integrating knowledge to foster further positive gains in biodiversity, without compromising human wellbeing or risking 'past' biodiversity. Furthering understanding how we can foster beneficial increases rather than just attempting to halt the losses.
LCAB and the University are committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community - a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed on merit. We value the participation of every member of our community and want to ensure that LCAB is an enjoyable place to work.
You will be expected to be present in LCAB in York for a minimum of 50% of the time, except if undertaking research trips. We provide a friendly, supportive, collaborative working environment and advocate flexible working to encourage a healthy work/life balance. We welcome applications from people of any and all backgrounds, and are very happy to discuss and accommodate any individual needs.
The design of LCAB’s working space provides an area which caters for individual and collaborative research as well as social space for relaxed and informal get togethers.
Our existing PhD students are working on the following areas of research:
Alex Payne - Evolutionary acceleration in the Anthropocene
Chantal Berry - Sensory environments c1500-c1950
Katie Noble - Knowledge and perspectives on laboratory grown meat: Understanding the environmental sustainability of meat alternative and how that informs consumer perspectives
Molly Brown - Knowledge, understanding and the demand for ivory
Megan Tarrant - The role of environmental knowledge in rights-based approaches to conservation
Theo Tomking - Statistics, computing and environmental knowledge in the 20th Century
Hien Luong - Financing a better anthropocene
Nikki Paterson - Linking biodiversity, nature connectedness and health over the lifecourse
Lauren Barnes - Rewilding nature - a panacea for a biodiverse Anthropocene?
Marco Franzoi - Fish futures: the governance of trade-based consumption and mechanisms for promoting net biodiversity gain
Andrew Gibson - What is the relationship between biodiversity and information behaviour in Anthropocene ecosystems?
Georgina Mitchell - Urban biodiversity and society in the Anthropocene - exploring attitudes, behaviours and consequences of urban rewilding
Jacob Griffiths - Spaceship Earth: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Cold War Ecology
Kate Rudd - Philanthropy for Biodiversity: A Critical Exploration of Drivers, Processes, and Impacts
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