Christina Hicks

Professor Christina Hicks is an Environmental Social Scientist at the Lancaster Environment Centre, focusing on human-nature relationships, nutritional security from aquatic systems, and climate change adaptation. Her work spans interdisciplinary research in the Political Ecology group, with field sites in Africa and the Pacific.

Her research integrates ecosystem services and social theories to address fisheries sustainability, governance capacity-building, and nutritional equity under climate change. Key projects include the ERC-funded FAIRFISH initiative and contributions to global datasets on fish nutrient composition.

• Global fisheries governance
• Small-scale fisheries nutrition
• Climate change impacts on marine food systems
• Gender equity in coastal communities

Recent articles examine food systems transformations, nutrient disparities, and policy frameworks for equitable ocean management. She was awarded the 2019 Philip Leverhulme Prize for Geography and serves on editorial boards including the Western Indian Ocean Journal of Marine Science. Supervises postgraduate researchers in fisheries, climate adaptation, and wellbeing.