Affiliations and Influences
This page summarises my professional and personal affiliations, revealing some of the responsibilities and influences that shape my thinking.
Journals
I am Editor-in-Chief of the new Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews (WIREs) Climate Change, launched January 2010.
From 2003 to 2009 I co-edited with Neil Adger and Kate Brown the journal Global Environmental Change. I remain on the editorial board of GEC and am also on the editorial board of the journals Climate Policy and Environmental Science and Policy. I have previously served as an editor for the journals Int. J. Climatology, Climate Research and Progress in Physical Geography.
Advisory Committees and Roles
I am an expert reviewer for 2009-2013 for the European Research Council, sitting on their Society and Environment panel and a member of the commissioning panel for the AHRC’s 2010-11 network programme ‘Arts and Humanities Approaches to Researching Environmental Change’. I sit on the Advisory Boards of the STEPS Centre at the University of Sussex and of the UK Climate Impacts Programme, am a senior advisor to the British Council and am a member of the advisory panel for the forthcoming (2011-16) London Science Museum exhibition on climate science. I am a member of the Science and Democracy Network, which seeks to enhance the significance and quality of scholarship in science and technology studies (STS), and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG).
Examples of earlier activities
I provided scientific input into the Conservative Party’s 2006 Quality of Life policy review. I was on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research from 2002-07 and on the Advisory Board of the UK Energy Research Centre from 2004-08. I was a Convening Lead Author for the scenarios chapter for the IPCC Third Assessment Report, as well as a Lead Author and Review Editor for other chapters. I was also the Manager of the IPCC Data Distribution Centre between 1997 and 2002. I was a Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society from 1982 to 2002.
I am a signatory to the Oxford Declaration ‘Science and faith unite on biodiversity’ under the auspicies of the James Martin Institute, issued 7 December 2007.
Personal Influences
I have been a member of the Labour Party since 1990.
I am an evangelical Christian and member of the Church of England, and my theology is broadly aligned with that espoused by Fulcrum, a movement seeking to act as a point of balance within the Anglican Church. See here a Christian appreciation of Charles Darwin.
In 2006/07 I studied for a postgraduate Diploma in History at the University of East Anglia.
I am a member of the Society of Authors and of the Liverpool and SW Lancashire Family History Society.
I have been married since 1987 and have a 1992-born daughter.