Dr Shona Koren Paterson
Director of Global Lives Research Centre / Senior Lecturer
- Email: shonakoren.paterson@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 268579
Membership and affiliation
Shona is a member of the London Climate Ready Partnership (). LCRP is the centre for expertise on climate change adaptation and resilience to extreme weather in London. LCRP is comprised of public, private and community sector organisations that have a role to play in preparing London for extreme weather today and climate change in the future. LCRP have worked to increase climate resilience within and between sectors in London for the last decade.
Shona is also a member of the Catching a Wave Collective (). CaW combines expertise in environmental and social sciences with a broad range of arts disciplines in order to engage multiple audiences in discourse around oceans and coasts. CaW aims to ensure that the visualisation and realisation of solutions and pathways to sustainability become more reachable for all, from local to global scales and is a partner in the CaW is striving to overcome existing disciplinary divisions across academia and society by forming an equitable and integrated challenge-led collaboration. The collective is a core partnership between scholars and artists based at East Carolina University, Coastal Studies Institute, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, University of Wisconsin-Madison, University College Cork, and СʪÃÃÊÓƵ London. For recent insights into the project, see our article in Eco Magazine's special issue on Sea Level RIse entitled Rising to the Challenge of Reconnection () and follow Catching a Wave on twitter @catching_waves and Instagram @catching_a_wave