Professor Kay Milton, BA (Durham), PhD (QUB), Professor of Social Anthropology is Director of the Anthropology research network in the School of History and Anthropology. Her research interests include environmental and ecological anthropology: environmental activism as cultural practice; environmental discourse in local and global contexts; the use of anthropological knowledge to address environmental issues; how human beings relate, through their cultural ideas and actions, to the non-human world; environmental perception and understanding through emotional and cognitive processes, the role of religion in human–environment relations.