Dr. Chris Pollard

Chris leads the research team at Climate Outreach, working to undertake research that underpins our insights. Having started out in a lab in the pharma sector, Chris changed tack to follow his environmental passions studying for an interdisciplinary MSc then PhD in Conservation Science.Chris has since worked with seafood retailers on sustainability, and led research on the social dimensions of plant health and biosecurity, both in the UK and abroad, as well as on urban forestry and the social and cultural values of greenspaces. He is Vice-Chair of the British Ecological Society Scottish Policy Group, building connections between policymakers and ecologists in Scotland. The common thread of Chris’ curiosity has always been to better understand the cooperation needed to tackle the complex social-environmental problems of our age.