Research Projects

Postgraduate research topics currently available are listed on the following Research theme(s):

• Tyndall Manchester

• Climate Change

Research grants

Research specialisms

• Low carbon transport
• Carbon Capture and Storage
• Agriculture

Research themes and Research centers

• Climate change
• Tyndall Centre

Alice Larkin is a Professor in Climate Science & Energy Policy as part of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research in the School of Engineering. Alice trained as an astrophysicist at the University of Leeds, did her PhD in climate modelling at Imperial College, then worked in science communication. She returned to academia in 2003 joining the interdisciplinary Tyndall Centre to research conflicts between climate change and aviation. In 2008 she was appointed as a lecturer to direct projects on international transport and food supply scenarios within a climate change context, and was Director of Tyndall Manchester between 2013 and 2016. In 2017 Alice became the Head of School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering, and then from 2019 to 2023, the Vice-Dean and Head of the newly formed School of Engineering. Alice has led numerous research projects, including the EPSRC funded High Seas project in 2010 and was the lead Manchester investigator on a large consortium project funded by the EPSRC entitled 'Shipping in Changing Climates'. She was also PI on a large EPSRC consortium project on the Water-Food-Energy Nexus, a Co-I on the UKERC project RACER and PI on a UKERC project on decarbonising shipping and aviation fuels. Her research interests continue to focus on the decarbonisation challenges surrounding aviation and shipping, and connections with carbon budgeting and the wider energy system more generally.

• Shipping and aviation emissions and climate policy
• Water-Food-Energy nexus
• Climate change mitigation pathways