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Research By Our Members

Photo: Sveta K

If Cities Could Speak

Divyanshi Vyas and Swati Surampally are researchers in If Cities Could Speak - a project investigating climate change and health across nine cities and four countries in the Global South, with a particular focus on heat stress and health in urban informal settlements.

Photo: Zakia Sultana

Beat The Heat: Co-governance for Heat Stress Adaptation Strategies

Zakia Sultana is involved in a project entitled “BEAT THE HEAT: Co-governance for Heat Stress Adaptation Strategies”. In her PhD project, she developed a novel conceptual framework focusing on "Everyone’s Adaptation" (EoA).

Photo: Nick Rahier

Book Project "City-Heat: Sensing Viable Futures in Nakuru, Kenya"

Anthropologist Nick Rahier is the author of a forthcoming book on hotter conditions in Nakuru, Kenya, under contract with University College London Press.

Photo: Laura Andriessen

Film Project "The People's Tree"

Human geographer Febe De Geest collaborated with two interlocutors in Central India to create an ethnographic film part of a broader research project she leads on the social and cultural dimensions of extreme heat and flooding in Central India.

Photo: Hebe Nicholson

Anticipating Unseen Climate Extremes

Hebe Nicholson works on the Anticipating unseen Climate Extremes (ACE) research project led by Dr Tom Matthews, a climate scientist at King’s College London and a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow, and his team of researchers.

Photo: Swati Surampally, IIHS, 2025

Climate Change Local Adaptations Pathways

Swati Surampally and Divyani Vyas work on CLAPs - a collaborative project which tackles climate change adaptation and extreme heat in informal settlements in India.

Doing homework at home

Member Publications

Heat Research Network

The Heat Research Network is an initiative sponsored by the Centre for Anthropological Research on Affect and Materiality (CARAM) at Ghent University 

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