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Teresa Sandra Perez

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Research Fellow, Royal Holloway University of London

I am a Research Fellow at Royal Holloway, University of London. I am currently part of a team looking at the combined impact of COVID-19 and race discrimination on children, young people and parents across the UK. This builds on my prior career as a secondary school teacher in London and research in South Africa.

I focus broadly on tackling contemporary global problems, with an emphasis on how these are experienced by marginalised people in their everyday life. My projects have involved helping people in semi-arid regions adapt to climate change and helping township residents reduce plastic pollution in Cape Town. I work in collaboration with community based organisations, policy action groups and environmental pressure groups.

Experience

  • 2019–2021
    Postdoctoral research associate, University of Cambridge
  • 2017–2019
    Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Cape Town

Education

  • 2017 
    University of Cape Town, PhD

Publications

  • 2021
    The Discursive Power of Recycling: Valuing Plastic Waste in Cape Town, Worldwide Waste: Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies
  • 2020
    Anticipating workshop fatigue to navigate power relations in international transdisciplinary partnerships: A climate change case study, Current Sociology
  • 2019
    In support of situated ethics: ways of building trust with stigmatised ‘waste pickers’ in Cape Town, Qualitative Research

Professional Memberships

  • British Sociological Association