Claire Hoolohan

Dr Claire Hoolohan is a Senior Lecturer in Sustainable Consumption and Resilient Infrastructure in the Tyndall Centre at the University of Manchester and leads the national Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research's 'Accelerating Social Change' thematic working group. Claire's background is in Geography (BSc, Lancaster University) and Resource and Environmental Management (MSc Lancaster University), and a PhD in Environmental Engineering that examined the connections between sustainable consumption, environmental policy, and social practices in water demand governance. Her research contributes to designing policies and strategies that foster rapid systemic change towards a sustainable society.

Claire has authored more than 30 research papers and book chapters related to sustainable consumption, water demand, climate change policy, water-energy nexus, and resource management. Her publications explain the lack of society-wide action on sustainability as a failure to mobilise change in social practices (in organisational and household settings) and emphasises the importance of reframing consumption in planning, policy and practice so that the dynamic and emergent qualities of everyday life are better recognised.

Claire collaborates with industry, NGOs and public sector partners to understand consumption, reimagine policy and intervention, and develop intervention pathways that reflect the complex reality of people’s everyday lives.