Dr Kathy Davies is an historian of energy and environment with expertise in oral history, transdisciplinarity, exhibitions and public programming, and policy engagement. She is currently leading a strand of research for the Wellcome funded project, Carbon Bodies: Warmth and Fuelling Health in Britain, 1918-2022, exploring the connection between energy, heat, space, the body, and the state in twentieth century Britain. Her wider research focusses on social, cultural, and political histories of domestic energy, 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. She has over seven years’ experience teaching undergraduate and postgraduate courses, including module leadership, research supervision, and specialist methods teaching on non-history courses. For the past two years (2023-2025) she led History Lab Plus, the national network for early career historians within the Institute of Historical Research.
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