Christopher Lyon

• Visiting Research Fellow, Centre for Death and Society, University of Bath

Christopher Lyon is a Visiting Research Fellow at Centre for Death and Society, University of Bath, and a Fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity and a member of the Department of Environment and Geography, University of York. With degrees in human geography and rural sociology, his place-based research qualitatively explores the relationship between community members' sense of place and culture, the views of catchment and national level agrifood stakeholders, and local emergency and climate resilience building through participatory methods.

He has also led White Rose funded research with natural scientists and an artist to explore 500-year global climate change projections and their bioregional impacts. He is involved in a York Environmental Sustainability Institute funded projects looking at the ways that environment and landscape change research can merge the creative arts and participatory methods to reach and include diverse place-based stakeholders in meaningful knowledge and decision making, the confluence of heat, haze and health in cities, and the BBSRC funded BAFR-UK project on food system resilience to catastrophic shocks.

• 2024–present Visiting Research Fellow, University of Bath
• 2022–present Fellow, University of York

• 2017 University of Dundee, PhD
• 2011 University of Alberta, MSc
• 2008 University of Winnipeg, BA

• 2026 AFRI-CAN Role: Co-I Funding Source: European Research Council
• 2025 BAFR-UK Role: Co-I Funding Source: Natural Environment Research Council
• 2018 Refugia of Futures Past Role: PI Funding Source: White Rose University Consortium
• 2014 SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship Role: Funding Source: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

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