Bio

Nawaz’s PhD at IRES focused on the social dimensions, public perceptions and governance of emerging agriculture gene-editing and synthetic biology technologies. She is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society and Oxford Net Zero, at the University of Oxford. Her postdoctoral work examines governance of ocean-based forms of ‘negative emissions’ or ‘carbon dioxide removal’ technologies through the project OceanNETs. She is also still affiliated with UBC/IRES, through which she is contributing to Solid Carbon, a project led by the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions.

Last updated January 2022