Dr Harry Barton

Personal statement:

Harry is a Research Associate in the Centre for Joined-Up Sustainability Transformations (JUST Centre) at the University of Manchester. She works in the Greater Manchester place team researching climate action across the city-region and potential for joining-up places and projects to help accelerate action and embed social justice.

Harry completed her PhD research at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at the University of Manchester. Her thesis explored how cities around the world are decarbonising and investigating the transferability of key lessons from these projects to a Greater Manchester context. Harry works with, and was part funded by the Greater Manchester Combined Authority. She is also an affiliate of the Centre for Climate Change and Social Transformations (CAST) working in themes two themes, learning and trialling

Publications:

Irreversibility in climate action https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-025-02526-4 Nature Climate Change

Empowering city decision-makers: A practical guide to learning for decarbonisation at the city-level https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1462901125000620?via%3Dihub Environmental Science and Policy

Investigating the impact of COVID-19 lockdown restrictions on odour complaints made to London Borough Councils in Spring 2020 compared to Spring 2019
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23748834.2023.2298032 Cities and Health