Kathy Davies
Postdoctoral Visiting Fellow in Environment and Sustainability @The British Library
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WORK HISTORY
Postdoctoral Visiting Fellow in Environment and Sustainability @The British Library
Leading a project titled SMOG STORIES: Lived Experiences of Air Pollution in Britain, 1920 - Today.
EDUCATION
Sheffield Hallam University
MA by Research, History
Sheffield Hallam University
BA (Hons) History, History
Sheffield Hallam University
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, History
ABOUT KATHY DAVIES
Dr Kathy Davies is an historian of energy and environment with expertise in oral history, interdisciplinary research, and public engagement. She is currently a Research Fellow at Northumbria University, Newcastle exploring the connection between energy, heat, space and the state as part of the Wellcome funded project, ‘Carbon Bodies: Warmth and Fuelling Health in Britain, 19••••22’. Her wider research focusses on social, cultural, and political histories of domestic energy, indoor and outdoor air quality, and environmental change in everyday life. Kathy was Archives By-Fellow at Churchill College, University of Cambridge (Lent 2025) and the British Library\'s first Postdoctoral Visiting Fellow in Environment and Sustainability 2025 where she led the project, ‘SMOG STORIES: Lived Experiences of Air Pollution in Twentieth Century Britain’. She has over seven years of experience teaching undergraduate and postgraduate courses, including module leadership, research supervision, and specialist methods teaching on non-history courses. Over the last two years (20••••25) Kathy led History Lab Plus, the national network for early career historians within the Institute of Historical Research.
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