Dr Mark Hirons is Research Fellow in Environmental Social Science at the Environmental Change Institute (ECI) and is the Agile Lead for Programme Research. Mark is interested in addressing inter-linked social and environmental challenges through interdisciplinary research. 

Mark completed his PhD at the University of Reading which examined land-use conflicts between mining and forests in Ghana.

He is broadly engaged with research that investigates issues of well-being, inequality and justice with respect to climate change and natural resource governance. He is interested how different values and knowledges interact with institutional and cultural contexts in driving the governance decisions which underpin environmental and social change across a range of scales.