Dr Candice Howarth is the Head of Local Climate Action at the LSE Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, and she is Co-Director of the £3,5 million Place-based Climate Action Network (PCAN). She leads research on resilience to extreme heat, where adaptation fits in climate governance and how co-production of knowledge can be used to better inform climate decision-making. She has extensive experience of qualitative and participatory methodologies. She has published 40 academic papers, two books and was the lead coordinating author of the impactful PCAN State and Trends report in 2021. She has an interdisciplinary background in climate policy and pro-environmental behaviour with degrees in meteorology (BSc), climate change (MSc) and a PhD in climate policy, communication and pro-environmental behaviour.

Prior to joining the Grantham Institute, Candice was a Senior Lecturer in Sustainability and Climate Change at the University of Surrey. She was also the Knowledge Integrator for the Centre for Evaluation of Complexity Across the Nexus (CECAN) and previously led the Climate Action research theme at the Global Sustainability Institute. She has worked in UK government (Department of Energy and Climate Change, Cabinet Office), in academia (Surrey, Anglia Ruskin, Imperial, Cambridge), conducted work for the European Commission, and has collaborated with a number of UK and international organisations. She chairs the Royal Geographical Society Climate Change Research Group and sits on the Royal Meteorological Society Climate Science Engagement group and the London Heat Risk Group. She was a contributing author for the 3rd UK Climate Change Risk Assessment (CCRA3). She sits on the Editorial Board of the journal Environmental Communication and is an Associate Deputy Editor for the journal Climatic Change.

Recent projects include: Examining responses to the 2022 UK heatwaves (PCAN/LSE, 2022-2023), Assessing climate ambition in the UK climate emergency declarations (PCAN, 2020-2021), Exploring ‘new civil’ politics on climate change at local and national levels (BA, 2019 – Lead: University of Lincoln), Increasing resilience to UK heatwaves (University of Surrey, 2018), Visualising climate impacts (University of Surrey, 2018), Improving responses to Nexus Shocks (ESRC, 2015, 2016), Creating narratives on the UK 5th Carbon Budget (WWF, 2016), and The role of practitioners in the IPCC process (CCCEP, 2014).