Elliot Honeybun-Arnolda

Elliot is a human geographer and environmental social scientist interested in the intersections between environmental knowledge. society, and politics.

My PhD research 'Scientising the Environment' looked at the history of ENV here at UEA to explore how the 'environment' became an object of knowledge to be made known through scientific interdisciplinarity. I explored through 4 case studies how ENV came to be imagined and founded at UEA in the 1960s, how interdisciplinarity figured and was practiced in the first decade and how the physical 'environmental sciences' evolved to include climate and social sciences - from the local to the global. I conclude by resituating histories of the 'environmental sciences' in conceptual and practical debates about the 'Anthropocene'. I completed this study in 2022.

I am now working as a postdoc on mapping diverse forms of participation with nature, biodiversity (with Natural England), wastewater management and responsible innovation (with Anglian Water) and the politics of energy transitions.

I remain keenly interested in the histories and politics of environmental and climate knowledge, particularly in a British context.

My background is in environmental sciences and human geography. I completed a BSc in Environmental Earth Sciences here at UEA in 2016, before studying an MSc in Environment, Politics and Society at University College London (UCL) in 2017. I completed a PhD at UEA in 2022.

Since 2022 I have been a member of UEA's Biodiversity and Climate Action Network (BCAN) and have been helping to organise and run a campaign to reform climate education across campus. This included securing funding from the CHASE Climate Justice Network to run a series of workshops with teaching staff and students looking at climate education across the university.