GENERATE
GENDER, GENERATION, AND CLIMATE CHANGE
WHO ARE WE?
GENERATE is advancing intersectional approaches to climate research and action. Our work highlights gender and age as key variables that intersect in urban settings to shape impacts and responses to climate change in different ways.
We share a passion for co-designing innovative action research that combines applied arts and social sciences to build understanding of, and challenge, the intersecting injustices that exacerbate climate impacts.
WHERE WE WORK?
Focused on two high-risk nations, GENERATE is working in seven cities across Uganda and Indonesia.
This includes Jakarta, Banjarmasin, Yogyakarta and Mataram in Indonesia, and Kampala, Gulu and Masaka in Uganda.
HOW WE WORK?
As part of our commitment to decolonial, collaborative and feminist methodologies, GENERATE is building collaborations with some of the most marginalised urban communities.
This includes women, older people, people with diffabilities, informal workers, sexual and gender diverse people, refugees and asylum-seekers, and youth. We draw on local arts and knowledges to foreground the perspectives, needs and responses of these communities, and promote their participation in climate action and urban governance.
OUR TEAM
DR KATIE MCQUAID
Associate Professor of Gender and Climate, University of Leeds
Katie is an anthropologist, feminist and twin mama (in no particular order).
DR DESY PIRMASARI
Lecturer in School of Geography, University of Leeds
Desy is a mother, decolonial scholar and feminist ethnographer.
DR NEIL CRAWFORD
Lecturer, University of Stirling
Lecturer in International Politics and Public Policy.
GENERATE is funded by the UKRI as part of Dr. Katie McQuaid’s Future Leaders Fellowship.