Carolyn Petersen

Carolyn Petersen is a Research Fellow at the University of Exeter, specializing in environmental social science. Her work focuses on participation and engagement in environmental governance, with interdisciplinary projects spanning climate change adaptation, nature-based solutions, land management, biodiversity, sustainable tourism, and environment-health-wellbeing linkages.

• Currently working on the NERC-funded RENEW project (Theme 3) and Defra's Local Nature Recovery Strategies evaluation
• Involved in EU Horizon 2020 REGREEN and Interreg PACCO coastal adaptation projects
• PRINCE2 Practitioner qualified for project management

Her research spans both UK and international contexts (EU, Africa, South America) and integrates policy analysis, public administration, and socio-cultural dimensions of environmental management.