Katy Joyce

Biography

Katy joined Hutton in 2022 as a Qualitative Research Assistant. She works on three main projects, JHI-D5-1 ‘Bringing in participatory approaches to widen the scope of natural capital valuation’, JHI-D5-2 ‘Climate change impacts on natural capital’ and JHI-D2-1 ‘Emerging water futures’.

As a neurodivergent woman she is keen to raise understanding about neurodivergence and currently chairs the Neurodivergence at Work Working Group at Hutton, in partnership with initiatives around neurodivergence at the University of Dundee. She also represents SEGS on Hutton’s Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee.

Her previous academic roles have included working as a Research Assistant at both the University of Sussex and the Institute of Development Studies, teaching undergraduates at the University of Sussex, and working as Centre Administrator for the Sussex Centre for Conflict and Security Research. Here she helped to organise and run the ‘Occupation at 50: Pasts, Presents and Futures’ conference on the Israel Palestine conflict, the ‘Peacebuilding and its Limits’ conference at the FCO, and the ‘What’s the point of IR?’ conference celebrating 50 years of International Relations at the University of Sussex.

Prior to working in academia, Katy was a singer and songwriter and sang sessions and performed in bands and choirs across the UK. She worked for Universal Music Publishing, licencing music for film and television shows, and then moved to the BBC where she worked for the BBC Learning department. Here she worked as a Researcher and Producer, organising and managing creative arts learning events including organising and running a festival tour of creative learning activities for young offenders (in partnership with BBC Sport and BBC 1Xtra), organising and stage managing a live music stage show at the first ever BBC Film Festival in Glasgow, working on a music learning website for children and managing a UK-wide sports photography competition for young people. Katy travelled extensively down the East Coast of Africa and worked as a consultant for both the British Council and Marie Stopes International in Sudan, where she co-managed a participatory monthly, outdoor, live arts stage show and exhibition for local artists, and ran a communications campaign around Sudan’s first MSI sexual health clinic, amongst other things.

Katy holds an MSc in Advanced Environmental and Energy Studies from the University of East London / Centre for Alternative Technology, an MSc in Social Research Methods from the University of Sussex and is currently working towards her PhD in Psychology and Anthropology at Anglia Ruskin University and the James Hutton Institute.