Dr Lucie Middlemiss

Lecturer: Sustainability

Telephone number: +44(0) 113 34 37432
Email address: L.K.Middlemiss@leeds.ac.uk
Room: 9.106

Biography

I joined the School of Earth and Environment in 2004 as a Teaching and Research Fellow, and completed my PhD in the School in 2009. I became a Lecturer in Sustainability in 2009. Before I joined the school I did an MSc in Environmental Management at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. I have also worked in corporate communications at Wolters Kluwer, as a consultant for AEA Technology Environment, and briefly as a volunteer at Greenpeace International.

Research Interests

I am interested in the boundary between social and environmental issues. That means that I want to know how environmental problems and policy affect people, and how people can in turn affect environmental problems. The topics I am interested in include sustainable communities, sustainable consumption, environmental justice and sustainability policy. My PhD evaluated the potential for community groups to influence their members to take on sustainability practices. Further work looks at issues such as fuel poverty and the impact of schools on climate change. In recent years I have set down disciplinary roots in sociology, although I also have interdisciplinary interests.

Publications

Young W; Middlemiss L (2012) A rethink of how policy and social science approach changing individuals' actions on greenhouse gas emissions, ENERGY POLICY, 41, pp.742-747. doi: 10.1016/j.enpol.2011.11.040
Middlemiss L (2011) The effects of community-based action for sustainability on participants' lifestyles, Local Environment, 16, pp.265-280.
Middlemiss L (2011) The Power of Community: How Community-Based Organizations Stimulate Sustainable Lifestyles Among Participants, SOCIETY & NATURAL RESOURCES, 24, pp.1157-1173. doi: 10.1080/08941920.2010.518582
Middlemiss L (2010) Reframing Individual Responsibility for Sustainable Consumption: Lessons from Environmental Justice and Ecological Citizenship, ENVIRONMENTAL VALUES, 19, pp.147-167. doi: 10.3197/096327110X12699420220518
Middlemiss L; Parrish BD (2010) Building capacity for low-carbon communities: The role of grassroots initiatives, ENERGY POLICY, 38, pp.7559-7566. doi: 10.1016/j.enpol.2009.07.003
Middlemiss LK (2010) Community Action for Individual Sustainability: Linking Sustainable Consumption, Citizenship and Justice, In: Pavlich D (Ed) Managing Environmental Justice, At the Interface: Probing the Boundaries, Rodopi, pp.71-91.
Middlemiss L (2008) Influencing individual sustainability: A review of the evidence on the role of community-based organisations, International Journal of Environment and Sustainable Development, 7, pp.78-93.
Middlemiss L; Young CW (Not yet published) Changing behaviour and practice towards low carbon lifestyles - dismantle disciplinary castles for a holistic and progressive view of the research evidence, Nature Climate Change, .
Middlemiss LK (Not yet published) The effects of community-based action for sustainability on participant lifestyles, Local Environment, .
Middlemiss LK (Not yet published) The power of community: how community-based organisations stimulate sustainable lifestyles among participants, Society & Natural Resources, .