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Dr Sophie Perry

Research Fellow

School of Health & Medical Sciences Department of Population Health and Policy

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Overview

Sophie is a Research Fellow within the Centre for Food Policy working on the Joined up Landscapes Project. She is a social scientist with particular interest in research on socioecological system change in ways that foreground participation and justice. Her research has explored food and farming systems, environmental education and socioecological change, and food sovereignity.

Sophie is also a keen practitioner, having worked on multiple food and farming projects including setting up a mushroom growing project and mycology education programme in partnership with a school, and facilitating the development of a participatory community food growing project on a North London council estate. 

Sophie holds a PhD in Environmental and Climate Education from King's College London, and an MSc in Science, Technology and Society from University College London. 

Qualifications

  • PhD in Environmental and Climate Education, King's College London, United Kingdom, October 2020 - June 2024
  • Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Authority (AFHEA), King's College London, United Kingdom, March 2024
  • MSc in Science, Technology and Society, University College London, United Kingdom, September 2017 - August 2018
  • Batchelors in Biological Sciences, University of Oxford, United Kingdom, October 2012 - June 2015

Employment

  • Research Fellow, City St George's, United Kingdom, May 2025 - present
  • Postdoctoral Research Associate, Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom, September 2024 - April 2025
  • Hourly Paid Lecturer, King's College London, United Kingdom, September 2024 - April 2025
  • Graduate Teaching Fellow, King's College London, United Kingdom, January 2022 - July 2024
  • Research Assistant, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, January 2020 - September 2021

Publications

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Book

  • Perry, S., Glackin, M. and Hine, S. (Eds.), (2023). Heartwood Voices from environmental education: Academic research meets head, heart and hands. London ISBN 9781908951489.

Chapter

  • Perry, S. (2022). Environmental and Sustainability Education Research: Moving towards enacting change. In Deutzkens, N., Van Poeck, K., Deleye, M., Læssøe, J., Lönngren, J., Lotz-Sisitka, H.... Wals, A. (Eds.), CHALLENGES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL AND SUSTAINABILITY EDUCATION RESEARCH IN TIMES OF CLIMATE CRISIS (pp. 83-87). Ghent: Ghent University – Centre for Sustainable Development.

Journal articles (4)