School of Earth and Environment

Lucie Middlemiss Dr Lucie Middlemiss

Lecturer: Sustainability

Telephone number: +44(0) 113 34 35246
Email address: L.K.Middlemiss@leeds.ac.uk
Room: 10.111

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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 consumption, sustainable communities, 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.

I supervise two PhD students: Georgios Zampas and Sarah Bradbury.

I have been external examiner for one PhD examination in 2012.

Teaching Interests

I teach on BSc Sustainability and Environmental Management, BA Environment and Business and MSc Sustainability courses. The main modules that I am involved in are: SOEE 1381 Skills for Environmental Social Sciences; SOEE 2570 Research in Environmental Social Sciences; SOEE 3202 Sustainable Consumption; SOEE 5010 Research Methods. I specialise in teaching research methods (1381, 2570 and 5010). SOEE 3202 is the module that relates most closely to my research, and the one I get the most excited about! I regularly supervise dissertations on sustainable consumption and sustainable communities topics.

Publications

  • Young CW; 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. doi: 10.1080/13549839.2011.566850
  • Middlemiss L (2011) The Power of Community: How Community-Based Organizations Stimulate Sustainable Lifestyles Among Participants, SOC NATUR RESOUR, 24, pp.1157-1173. doi: 10.1080/08941920.2010.518582
  • Middlemiss L; Parrish BD (2010) Building capacity for low-carbon communities: The role of grassroots initiatives, ENERG 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 (2010) Reframing Individual Responsibility for Sustainable Consumption: Lessons from Environmental Justice and Ecological Citizenship, ENVIRON VALUE, 19, pp.147-167. doi: 10.3197/096327110X12699420220518
  • Middlemiss LK (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.