The Global Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. Kim's work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

About Kim

I am an environmental social scientist studying how people relate to the more-than-human world, and how these relationships shape environmental governance, society, and policy. My research focuses on rewilding, nature recovery, biosecurity, and animal management, exploring how ideas about nature are put into practice and how they shape the environments we share with other species

Supervised Research Degrees

Current PhD students

Heidi Barron. Respect, Responsibility and Reciprocity: Envisioning Multi-Species Justice in the River Dart. ESRC Funded

Patrick Geoghegan. Realising alternative futures—on structure, agency, and the London National Park City movement. ESRC Funded

Completed PhD students

2019. Cara Clancy. Wild entanglements: exploring the visions and dilemmas of ‘renaturing’ urban Britain. SoGEES funded 

2023. Carlotta Molfese. Going back-to-the-land in the Anthropocene: a more-than-human journey into anarchist geography  ESRC Funded

2024. Dylan Beard. Glaciers as secondary sources of anthropogenic pollutants: an emerging socio-environmental challenge. SoGEES Funded. 2nd supervisor. 

Teaching

I teach across a variety of modules within the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Science (SoGEES). 

Contact Kim

( B514 Portland Square, Drake Circus, Plymouth, PL4 8AA
+44 1752 585901
kim.ward@plymouth.ac.uk