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Overview
Profile summary
I am an environmental social scientist studying how people relate to the more-than-human world, and how these relationships shape environmental governance, society, and policy. My research focuses on rewilding, nature recovery, biosecurity, and animal management, exploring how ideas about nature are put into practice and how they shape the environments we share with other species
Professional memberships
Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society with the Institute of British Geographers
Supervised research degrees
Current PhD students
Heidi Barron. Respect, Responsibility and Reciprocity: Envisioning Multi-Species Justice in the River Dart. ESRC Funded
Patrick Geoghegan. Realising alternative futures—on structure, agency, and the London National Park City movement. ESRC Funded
Completed PhD students
2019. Cara Clancy. Wild entanglements: exploring the visions and dilemmas of ‘renaturing’ urban Britain. SoGEES funded
2023. Carlotta Molfese. Going back-to-the-land in the Anthropocene: a more-than-human journey into anarchist geography ESRC Funded
2024. Dylan Beard. Glaciers as secondary sources of anthropogenic pollutants: an emerging socio-environmental challenge. SoGEES Funded. 2nd supervisor.
Teaching interests
I teach across a variety of modules within the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Science (SoGEES).
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being -
SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities -
SDG 13 Climate Action -
SDG 15 Life on Land -
SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions -
SDG 17 Partnerships for the Goals
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Pet Ectoparasiticides: A multidisciplinary investigation into environmental, animal and public health and deep dive into use practices
Herborn, K. (PI - Principal Investigator), Ward, K. (CoI - Co-Investigator), Kelly, C. (CoI - Co-Investigator), Fitzsimons, M. (CoI - Co-Investigator), Handy, R. (CoI - Co-Investigator), Whiteside, M. (CoI - Co-Investigator), Foey, A. (CoI - Co-Investigator) & Lead, J. (CoI - Co-Investigator)
8/12/25 → 31/03/26
Project: Consultancy
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Into the Wild: Rewilding and the Historic Environment
Ward, K. (CoI - Co-Investigator)
31/08/23 → …
Project: Research
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Social Science Fellow – Defra APHEA Programme
Ward, K. (PI - Principal Investigator)
3/11/14 → 9/11/15
Project: Research
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Release of legacy fallout radionuclides from retreating glaciers: co-producing ‘risk maps’ with the Sami to inform adaptations to an emerging threat in Arctic Sweden’
Ward, K. (PI - Principal Investigator)
3/09/18 → 26/06/20
Project: Research
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Sowing the Seeds of Heritage. Examining bio-cultural knowledge in agricultural landscapes
Ward, K. (PI - Principal Investigator)
8/04/19 → 4/05/20
Project: Research
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Rewilding Gender: Toward Relational Understandings of ‘the Wild’
Ward, K., 27 Nov 2025, In: Area. 57, 4, e70072.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Anthropogenic contaminants in glacial environments I: Inputs and accumulation
Beard, D. B., Clason, C. C., Rangecroft, S., Poniecka, E., Ward, K. J. & Blake, W. H., Aug 2022, In: Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment. 46, 4, p. 630-648Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Anthropogenic contaminants in glacial environments II: Release and downstream consequences
Beard, D. B., Clason, C. C., Rangecroft, S., Poniecka, E., Ward, K. J. & Blake, W. H., 26 Sept 2022, In: Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment. 0, 0Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Mapping the geography of disease: A comparison of epidemiologists' and field-level experts' disease maps
Enticott, G., Ward, K., Ashton, A., Brunton, L. & Broughan, J., Jan 2021, In: Applied Geography. 126, 0, p. 102356-102356Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Auto-rewilding in post-industrial cities: the case of inland cormorants in urban Britain
Clancy, C. & Ward, K., Jun 2020, In: Conservation and Society. 0, 0Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open AccessFile25 Downloads (Pure)
Media stories
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Rewilding: Reintroduction extinct species back to Britain will be 'enormous' challenge, study finds
30/08/15
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