Rate My Professor Lindsey McEwen

Professor Lindsey McEwen MA (Hons) PhD FRGS ARSGS FHEA NTF is Professor of Environmental Management within the School of Architecture and Environment at the University of the West of England, Bristol. Previously, she was Professor in Physical Geography and Director of the Pedagogic Research and Scholarship Institute at the University of Gloucestershire, leading developments in pedagogic research since 2007. As a geographer, she designs and delivers innovative interdisciplinary co-produced research in hazard settings, focusing on flood histories and archives, water risk management across the flood-drought continuum, integration of specialist and lay knowledge for local risk decision-making, water science communication and education, and community-based research and learning. She heads the Centre for Water, Communities and Resilience and has led major UK Research and Innovation-funded projects, including the ESRC Sustainable Flood Memories, NERC Drought Risk and You (DRY), ESRC CCC-CATAPULT, AHRC Voices in a Pandemic, ESRC CASCADE-NET, and ongoing ESRC Climate Collaboratorium and NERC FLOODTWIN. These initiatives involve multi-stakeholder partnerships at the intersections of natural and social sciences, arts, and humanities.

Professor McEwen's scholarship includes a long-term pedagogic research strand, with her book 'Flood Risk and Community Resilience: An Interdisciplinary Approach' published by Routledge in 2024. She co-edited a special edition of the Journal of Extreme Events and has contributed extensively to peer-reviewed literature on flood memory, narratives, local knowledge, community resilience, historic flood patterns, fluvial landscape sensitivity, and cold environment river dynamics. Recognized with the National Teaching Fellowship in 2009 and the Royal Society 'Connecting People to Science' award for a community flood history project, her work enhances impact through engaged research, public understanding of water hazards, and policy influence. Additional interests encompass learning for resilience and sustainability, postgraduate education, and integrated catchment management.