Martin Mahony

Dr. Martin Mahony is an Associate Professor in Human Geography at the University of East Anglia's School of Environmental Sciences. He is affiliated with the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, ClimateUEA, and the Science, Society and Sustainability (3S) research group. His work focuses on environmental change, science-policy interfaces, and the historical dimensions of climate science. Mahony holds visiting fellowships at Harvard University and Leuphana University, Germany. He has supervised multiple PhD students and contributed to projects funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), Royal Society, and others. His research spans climate change politics, historical geographies of science, and the Anthropocene, with publications in leading journals and books.

Education:

• Bachelor of Geography, University of Oxford
• MRes in Environmental Social Science, University of East Anglia (2010)
• PhD in Human Geography (3S Group, UEA, 2013)

Research Interests:

• Environmental and cultural geographies of climate change
• History of science and technology studies
• Colonial meteorology and empire studies
• Risk governance and disaster politics
• Visual and narrative approaches to environmental change

Grants and Projects:

• "Archives Assemble!" (AHRC, 2025-2026)
• "Imagining eruptions: volcanic crises" (Royal Society, 2022-2023)
• "Imperial Weather" (British Academy, 2017-2018)

Advising: Currently supervising PhD students researching climate science-policy networks, decolonizing environmental sciences, and Anthropocene narratives. Past advisees include Elliot Honeybun-Arnolda (now at TU Munich).

Labs/Teams: Member of the 3S Research Group and editorial board of the Journal of Historical Geography.