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Former Pupil Biographies
Professor Mike Hulme (1960 - current )
| Mike Hulme was born in London in 1960.
He is Professor of Climate and Culture in the Department
of Geography in the Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy at King’s
College London where he convenes the King’s Climate research group. His
work explores the idea of climate change using historical, cultural and
scientific analyses, seeking to illuminate the numerous ways in which
climate change is deployed in public and political discourse. He believes it
is important to understand and describe the varied ideological, political
and ethical work that the idea of climate change is currently performing
across different social worlds. |
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His research interests are therefore concerned with
representations of climate change in history, culture and the media; with
the relationship between climate and society, including adaptation; with
how knowledge of climate change is constructed (especially through the
IPCC); and with the interactions between climate change knowledge and
policy. He welcomes approaches from graduate students seeking to study for
a PhD in any of these areas in either the social sciences or the arts and
humanities.
Academic Qualifications, Prizes and Esteem
- 2012 Editor’s Award, Bulletin American Meteorological
Society, American Meteorological Society, for the most insightful
reviewer’s comments of the year
- 2010 Joint Winner, Gerald L Young Human Ecology ‘Book
Award of the Year’ for Why We Disagree About Climate Change
- 2009 One of The Economist’s four science & technology
‘Books of the Year’ for Why We Disagree About Climate Change
- 2007 Personalised certificate for ‘contributing
significantly’ to the award of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize to the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
- 1995 Hugh Robert Mill Prize from the Royal Meteorological
Society for contributions to the understanding and analysis of
precipitation
- 1985 PhD in Applied Climatology, University of Wales,
Swansea
Thesis title: Secular Climatic and Hydrological Change
in Central Sudan
- 1981 BSc (Hons.) Geography, class IIi, University of
Durham, UK
Employment
- 2013-present Professor of Climate and Culture, Department
of Geography, King’s College London, UK
- 2002-2013 Professor of Climate Change, School of
Environmental Sciences, UEA, Norwich, UK
- 2000-2007 Director, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change
Research, UK
- 1998-2000 Reader, Climatic Research Unit, School of
Environmental Sciences, UEA, Norwich, UK
- 1988-1997 Senior Research Associate, Climatic Research
Unit, School of Environmental Sciences, UEA,
Norwich, UK
- 1986 Visiting British Council Lecturer, University of
Zimbabwe, Harare
- 1984-1988 Lecturer in Geography, University of Salford, UK
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