Weather, climate and health 

Leads: Jed Stevenson (Anthropology), Maximilian Hepach (Geography) and Angela Marques Filipe (Sociology).  

How are environments rendered stable through weather-forecasting, climate control, and seasonal taxonomies? What are the health, bodily, and emotional impacts of this ordering work and its undoing in times of climate crisis? And how is this “dis/ordering” felt and expressed in terms of climate emotions, deliberations, and new measures of distress?

With the emergence of ‘weird weather’ and 'ecological anxieties' accelerated by climate change, the relationships between weather, climate, health and well-being are coming out of joint. Our research within this strand explores the health impacts of this emergent dislocation (and their affective, cultural and socio-material aspects), bridging the gap between environmental and medical humanities.