The Global 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. Kim's work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
About Kim
I am human geographer whose research explores the practices and politics of environmental governance. I’m particularly interested in understanding how relationships between humans and non-humans are shaped by, or can shape, culture, politics and policy. In my research I apply these ideas to better understand rewilding and nature recovery, alongside biosecurity and animal managment.
Research Projects
2023. Into the Wild: Rewilding and the Historic Environment. Royal Society of Edinburgh Research Collaboration grant. £29,000. Co-Investigator. Project information
2023. Mapping social elements of rewilding to identify pragmatic social metrics for stakeholders. Rewilding Britain. £3000
2018. Sowing the Seeds of Heritage: Examining bio-cultural knowledge and social memory of agricultural practices. Small Research Grant, Royal Geographical Society. £3,000
2018. 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’ Environment and Sustainability Research Grant. £15,000
2015. Research Fellowship Providing Evidence and Analysis to Inform Policy Development on Key Elements of Biosecurity. DEFRA. (Project number SD0511) £103,712
2006. Wellcome Trust Undergraduate Research Scholarship Award, Nottingham University £1500
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
I teach across a variety of modules within the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Science (SoGEES).
Contact Kim
B514 Portland Square, Drake Circus, Plymouth, PL4 8AA
+44 1752 585901
kim.ward@plymouth.ac.uk
