Catherine Oliver

Catherine Oliver is a Lecturer in Sociology (Climate Change) at Lancaster University, specializing in animal geographies, more-than-human ecologies, and climate change sociology. Her research explores human-animal-environment interconnections in Morecambe Bay and urban chicken governance.

• PhD in Geography from University of Birmingham (2020)
• Postdoctoral researcher at University of Cambridge (2020-2022)
• Chair of Royal Geographical Society's Animal Geography Working Group

Current projects include Blue Avian Ecologies (2022-2025) examining seabirds in Morecambe Bay and Alternative Communities (2022-) analyzing non-capitalist social formations. Her work bridges environmental sociology, animal ethics, and urban studies, with notable contributions to vegan geographies.

Recent publications address avian landscapes, interspecies ethics, and urban animal governance. She has received competitive fellowships from Royal Geographical Society and Global Urban History Project. Oliver supervises PhD students and teaches courses on climate change, environment-culture relationships, and STS research methods.

• 2021: Royal Geographical Society/Wiley Digital Archives Fellowship
• 2021-2022: Global Urban History Project Dream Conversations Fellow
• 2016-2017: British Library Archiving Activism placement