Joanne Clarke

Background

About Joanne Clarke

I am Honorary Professor of Archaeology and Heritage in the School of Art, Media and American Studies at the University of East Anglia. In 2023 I took voluntary severance to pursue research interests beyond teaching. My research expertise is at the intersection of heritage and climate change, specifically the impacts of climate change on coastal heritage sites in Africa and globally. I have directed archaeological field projects in Gaza, Cyprus and Western Sahara culminating in a book published in 2018. I have published individually and co-authored on many research articles and policy documents on climate change and sustainable development. I was PI for an AHRC funded Network, Environmental Change in Prehistory which resulted in a paper in Quaternary Science Reviews (Clarke et al. 2016) and more recently a British Academy-funded project exploring how to measure the human cost of loss and damage to coastal heritage from climate change for effective policy reporting. I am involved in climate-related research projects, with senior climate scientists and currently with a team of international scholars modelling the impacts of sea-level rise and coastal erosion on global coastal heritage. I have co-authored many research articles and policy documents on climate change and sustainable development. I was a contributing author to the IPCC’s Assessment Report 6, Working Group II on Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability and am currently a lead author for the United Nations Environment Programme’s, Global Environment Outlook. Currently I am employed as a call handler (National Service Adviser) for Integrated Care 24 which is a subsidiary of the NHS.