Kylie Kay
- Email: rmhs0327@leeds.ac.uk
- Thesis title: Just Transition, Capabilities, and Ageing-in-Place: Understanding Older Adults’ Indoor Environmental Quality in the Context of UK Social Housing Retrofit
- Supervisors: Dr Douglas Booker, Dr Alex Torku, Assoc. Professor Catherine (Frin) Bale
Profile
I am a PhD student researching older adults’ lived experiences in retrofitted social homes through the lens of environmental justice and the capabilities approach. My project methodology includes several participatory methods, including resource trace and sensory ethnographic interviews, participatory systems mapping, and world café. I am also part of the Priestley Climate Scholars programme 2026-2027 cohort.
Prior to starting my PhD programme, I have worked as a research associate researching urban heat experiences at the Human Potential Translational Research Programme (HPTRP) in National University of Singapore Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, as well as communications and community engagement on The Leven Programme, an evnironment and community development programme in Fife, Scotland. I am also a volunteer with 2050 Climate Group, under the Climate Action Leadership Programme (CALP) subgroup.
Research interests
My key research interests are in environmental justice, energy poverty, intersectionality, systems thinking, and participatory research methods. The main theoretical lenses that underpin my project are new materialism and feminist poststructuralism.
Qualifications
- MSc. Environment, Culture and Society, University of Edinburgh
- BA(Hons) English Literature, Nanyang Technological University