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Dr Sasha Kosanic

School of Biological and Environmental Sciences

Faculty of Science

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Dr Sasha Kosanic is a geographer who uses an interdisciplinary approach (mixed method approaches) to answer complex questions on climate change impacts (local and regional scales) on nature and societies. She finished her PhD at the University of Exeter, where her research focused on investigating local climate change and its impacts on biodiversity in West Cornwall. She also used biodiversity historical records (i.e. Herbarium data) to analyse changes in plant species distribution across West Cornwall and to provide answers on how we can use Ellenberg values to detect species sensitivity to climate and environmental change.

Her recent focus is on climate change impacts on ecosystem services (ES) and Nature contributions to people (NCP), and in particular, she is interested in how these changes impact vulnerable communities (e.g. disabled, indigenous populations, children and elderly). She also works on understanding the relationships between multiple inequalities in order to incorporate this into policies and achieve Agenda 2030.
Sasha is also very passionate about inclusive education and promoting better inclusion of disabled students and researchers into STEM fields. Only such inclusion can erase current misconceptions and change demographics in Academia.

Languages

Slovenian
Croatian

Degrees

2015, University of Exeter, United Kingdom, PhD, Geography
2007, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, MSc, Physical Geography
1999, University of Zagreb, Croatia, BSc, Geography

Certifications

2023, Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom, Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice

Academic appointments

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Biology, University of Konstanz, 2016 - 2020

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