Our Team
Jamie Hinch
Jamie is TGP’s Learning and Development Coordinator, as well as a PhD candidate at the School of Geography and the Environment of the University of Oxford.
Annabelle von Moltke
Annabelle is TGP’s Community Engagement Coordinator as well as a Master’s student in Political Science at both Sciences Po and the Free University Berlin.
Laoise Rogers
Laoise is TGP’s Writer and a recent graduate from the School of International Relations of the University of St Andrews.
Cara O’Dwyer
Cara is TGP’s Student Engagement Coordinator and an undergraduate student at the School for Modern Languages at the University of St Andrews.
Margaret Babirye
Margaret joined TGP in 2017 while completing her Master’s in African Studies at the University of Oxford. She also holds an MA in Educational Policy and Planning from Makerere University in Uganda where she lives today. Her primary research explores the politics of conservation and land displacement among Indigenous ethnic minorities in Eastern Africa, with a particular focus on BaTwa communities in southwestern Uganda living on the fringes of Bwimbi National Park. She hopes to continue her research as a doctoral student in 2021.
Meghan Laws
Meghan joined TGP originally as deputy director in 2017 while completing her PhD at Queen’s University in Canada. She was then awarded a postdoctoral fellowship in International Relations at the University of St Andrews to continue her work with TGP from 2019 to 2021. Her primary research focuses on discourses of power and resistance in post-conflict settings, with a particular focus on Rwanda and the wider African Great Lakes region. Her more recent work seeks to chronicle narratives of dislocation, land dispossession and regime change among the region’s first ‘conservation refugees’, the Indigenous BaTwa. Meg recently left St Andrews to take up work elsewhere but continues to work closely with her colleagues at TGP in a volunteer capacity.
Patrick Tom
Patrick joined TGP in 2017 while working as an Assistant Professor of International Relations at the University of Sharjah in the UAE. Since receiving his doctorate from the University of St Andrews, Patrick has published widely on peace-building, repairing youth-elder relations and hybridity in post-conflict societies. His work has focused especially on Liberia, Sierra Leone and Uganda where he’s conducted extensive fieldwork. He is also a board member of the ‘Zimbabwe Policy Dialogue Institute’, and co-founding trustee and organising secretary of the ‘Kariba Development Trust’, a non-profit organization that promotes environmental, economic and social development in Kariba, Zimbabwe.
Matthew Porges
Matthew joined TGP in 2018 whilst a doctoral student at the University of St Andrews. His dissertation explored the political legacy of nomadic pastoralism in Mauritania and Western Sahara. Since graduating with a PhD in Social Anthropology in 2021, Matthew has become a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oxford. His project explores the relationship between migration, activism, and political imagination in Central Europe and the Balkans, primarily Slovenia.
Cohort 2022
Pia Tiwari
Pia is studying International Relations and Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews. She is interested in critical and Indigenous research methodologies and developing post-colonial critiques of climate research.
Marcelina Lekawska
Marcelina is studying Biology and Sustainable Development at the University of St Andrews. She is interested in the role of education in catalysing just climate action and in the intersection of climate change and gender-based violence.
Cate Bone
Cate is studying English at the University of St Andrews. She is interested in exploring current climate policy and how it affects the working class in the UK.
Yasemin Cag
Yasemin is studying International Relations at the University of St Andrews. She is interested in learning about Indigenous political thought and how its implementation could help us solve the climate crisis.
Cohort 2021
Akshika Kandage
Akshika is a 4th year student studying International Relations and Philosophy at the University of St Andrews. As an Emerging Researcher she is particularly interested in navigating effective measures and policies associated with alleviating environmental and social injustices. She hopes to research and introduce guidelines and a framework to assess the efficacy of such policies and legislation in both low-income and high-income regions.
Keira Logan
Keira is a 4th year undergraduate student from Texas studying International Relations and Arabic at the University of St Andrews. She is excited to expand her knowledge of Critical Theory, as she believes this school of thought holds the key to understanding the nuances and particularities of global events. She looks forward to applying what she learns to her research project investigating the differential effects of climate change on LGBT+ communities.
Jenny Park
Jenny is a 4th year Geography student at the University of St Andrews who hails from Edinburgh. She is especially interested in the rights and wellbeing of women and LGBT+ individuals within indigenous communities and their disproportionate risk to climate change. She is excited to critically explore western research methodology and to learn about ethical and collaborative research methodologies.
Hannah Weir
Hannah is a 4th year undergraduate student studying Social Anthropology and International Relations at The University of St Andrews. As an Emerging Researcher she is interested in exploring the didactic role of storytelling in school curricula and as is keen to support further developments of TGP’s project ‘Breaking the 4th Wall of Climate Migration’.
