I am a potter who also works on climate change programmes at Innovate UK. My Fellowship is about electric pottery kilns and firing practices, and how we can reduce our impact on climate change.

The purpose of my research includes bringing learning from Japan, the USA and Germany, and building datasets to better understand how potters and ceramicists can reduce carbon emissions from kilns, and how we fire our work.

I care about this because firing pottery is incredibly energy intensive, but we don't have a lot of data or evidence in the ceramic community to inform our actions to reduce our carbon emissions. I know from my other job that data will help but it's also about communication of the research if the work is to be impactful. I am hoping to start a wider conversation within the pottery community about what we can do better to reduce our impact on climate change, from the most energy intensive element of our process.