My research primarily focuses on the relationships between environments, commerce and science, with a particular focus on weather and climate. This research draws upon debates in geography and science and technology studies about nature-culture, the commercialization of science and nature, and the vexed question of scientific expertise. In my research I aim to trace the emergence of new commercial ventures in/of nature and science such as the weather derivatives market. I also aim to explore debates about climate change in culturally and historically nuanced ways that open up a range of perspectives on climate change that go beyond scientific and technocratic responses.

I am currently involved in researching or writing up research on the following topics

• A historical study of weather insurance in the UK and US (with James Kneale), exploring an actuarial science of weather from the mid nineteenth to the mid twentieth century