{"id":47101,"date":"2019-09-04T11:09:22","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T10:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/granthaminstitute\/?post_type=profile&p=47101"},"modified":"2025-12-15T13:32:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T13:32:03","slug":"candice-howarth","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/granthaminstitute\/profile\/candice-howarth\/","title":{"rendered":"Candice Howarth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Candice Howarth is Research Director at Quadrature Climate Foundation. Prior to this she was a Distinguished Policy Fellow and Head of Climate Adaptation and Resilience at the Grantham Research Institute at LSE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her research interests focused on how the co-production of knowledge and science communication can be used to better inform decision-making in the context of climate resilience and sustainability challenges. She has extensive experience in policy analysis and qualitative research design, delivery and analysis of semi-structured interviews, workshops and focus groups. She has an interdisciplinary background in climate policy and pro-environmental behaviour with degrees in meteorology (BSc), climate change (MSc) and a PhD in climate change and pro-environmental behaviour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She led research on resilience and preparedness to heat risk<\/a>, communication and narratives of climate action, and models of local climate action. She led a British Academy Fellowship in collaboration with the British Red Cross looking at integrating adaptation and mitigation measures to enhance community preparedness to extreme heat. She was the PI for the NERC-funded £1.9 million ATTENUATE<\/a> project, the LSE lead for the MRC-funded £7.4 million HEARTH Hub<\/a>, and the UK lead for the Horizon 2020 €6,2 million healthRiskADAPT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n