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I am currently interested in exploring how we can leverage state-of-the-art modelling and knowledge from climate science and atmospheric physics to improve understanding of the impacts of extreme events and climate change - and quantifying the anthropogenic component within those impacts.
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Nicholas Leach, S Li, S Sparrow, GJ Van Oldenborgh, FC Lott,...
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Dr Leach’s research focuses upon urban liveability, resilience and sustainability – with a specific interest in the link between the built environment, infrastructure and wellbeing – and how these aspects can be usefully determined, measured and communicated to decision-makers.
Dr Leach’s research focuses upon urban liveability, resilience and sustainability – with a specific interest in the link between the built environment, infrastructure and wellbeing –...
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With much debt owed to a string of excellent English teachers through school and college, I completed a BA in English Language and Linguistics at the Lancaster University between 2007 and 2010, and an MA in Linguistics at the University of York in 2012. I completed my PhD at the University of Sheffield in summer 2018, with the generous support of t...
My thesis explored variation and social meaning in two main variables in the Stoke-on-Trent – /h/-dropping (the presence or absence of word-initial [h]) and the (i) vowel (broadly, the unstressed [ɪ] vowel found in suffixes such as –es, –ed, –age, -est and –ing; words such as it, him and his; and opaque words like tennis and biscuit). I investigate...
My research career almost exclusively centred around Stoke-on-Trent, and I only scratched the surface. The local accent and dialect is very under-researched, yet has many salient local variables and is the source of a great deal of local pride and divided opinion. My fundamental research aim was to uncover the linguistic features of Stoke-on-Trent ...
Northern and non-standard accents; acoustic phonetics and motivation for sound change; prejudice towards accents and real-life impacts of accentism; perceptual dialectology; exemplar theory.
What in her 50 years of research has she found most helps baby mental health and the wellbeing of families? Leading practitioners and colleagues joined us to honour Penelope Leach’s huge contribution to the field of infant mental health:
Dr Leach’s work is of particular interest for home-based educare because she was President of the National Childminding Association (NCMA) from 1999 to 2009, when she worked to raise the public profile of childminding as a high-quality childcare option and to increase the professionalism of childminders through improved access to training.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals. In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG (s):
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