Lena Dobrowolska

Lena Dobrowolska is a Research Associate in the School of Architecture and Landscape at the University of Sheffield, where she explores cultural framings of environmental change through the Culture and Climate Change initiative. She concurrently serves as a PhD Researcher at UWE Bristol's Digital Cultures Research Centre and lecturer in MA Digital Direction at the Royal College of Art.

Her educational background includes:

• 2021: PgCert Art and Design Education, Royal College of Art, London
• 2019: MA Digital Direction, Royal College of Art, London
• 2014: MA Fine Art Intermedia, Academy of Fine Arts, Krakow
• 2010: BA (Hons) Photography, Falmouth Art College, Falmouth

Her research centers on co-creative documentation of non-economic loss and damage—including cultural erosion, social fragmentation, and mental/spiritual wellbeing impacts—using immersive technologies in climate relocation contexts. She integrates transdisciplinary, decolonial, and participatory methodologies with ecofeminist perspectives, collaborating with frontline communities and policy actors to reframe climate justice narratives under the UNFCCC process. Her practice bridges artistic inquiry with humanitarian action to address irreversible climate impacts.

Her notable recognitions include:

• Coalition of Arts and Sustainable Development Prize (2019)
• Culture and Climate Change: Future Scenarios Networked Residency (2016)

She co-facilitates the 'Acts of Repair: Loss and Damage' research program within the Loss and Damage Collaborations Art and Culture initiative, having presented work at COP25 with the Platform on Disaster Displacement to influence international climate policy frameworks.