Mike Hulme

I am Professor of Climate Change in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia (UEA).  My work explores the idea of climate change using historical, cultural and scientific analyses, seeking to illuminate the numerous ways in which climate change is deployed in public and political discourse.  I believe it is important to understand and describe the varied ideological, political and ethical work that the idea of climate change is currently performing across different social worlds. 

My research interests are therefore concerned with representations of climate change in history, culture and the media; with how knowledge of climate change is constructed (especially through the IPCC) and the interactions between climate change knowledge and policy; and with the construction, application and evaluation of climate scenarios for impacts, adaptation and integrated assessments.  I welcome approaches from graduate students seeking to study for a PhD in any of these areas.

I was the founding Director (2000-2007) of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research. A longer bio and full CV – including a statement of my financial interests and research funders – can be found here, along with a personal statement about climate change.

 

VIEW ALL LATEST POSTS (24 August 2010) 

(24 August)   Read my essay ‘Problems with making and governing global kinds of knowledge’ to appear in the 20th Anniversary Issue of the journal Global Environmental Change.

(23 August)  Hear Mike Hulme speak.  During Autumn 2010 I am delivering a number of public and conference  lectures, mostly in the UK, but also in Boulder, Colorado.  I will be developing some of the themes of my book – Why We Disagree About Climate Change – and applying them to new issues in science, policy and society.   

(August)   Read my review of Wolfgang Behringer’s book  ’A Cultural History of Climate’ at the on-line Reviews in History.

(23 July)  Issue Number 4   The fourth issue of Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change is now available on-line.    The 12 review articles in this issue include topics such as: skill and uncertainty in climate models; the CDM and sustainable development; linking climate change and migration; and the history of the 2C climate target.  There is free global access to WIREs Climate Change for 2 years.    

(21 July)   ‘The IPCC on trial: experimentation continues’   Read my Talking Point essay at Environmental Research Web.

(8 July)  New Publication   My extended essay ‘Learning to live with re-created climates’ has just been published in the journal Nature & Culture.

 

My H-Index is 33 as of June 2010 (see archived publications).  Thomson Reuters reports Mike Hulme as the 10th most cited author in the world in the field of climate change, between 1999 and 2009 (ScienceWatch, Nov/Dec 2009, see Table 2). 

Contact Details

School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ

T: +44 (0)1603 593162; F: +44 (0)1603 593901; E: m.hulme at uea.ac.uk

Last updated: 24 August 2010