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Ash is currently completing their PhD within Lancaster Environment Centre. Their work is interdisciplinary, and creatively draws on feminist STS, Indigenous research methods, queer ecology, and decolonial property and land theory. It responds to the provocation by some Indigenous sustainability scholars to reflect on the ways in which Western relational norms and structures have brought about climatic and ecological collapse, and to consider through practice alternative ways of relating to land that are not based on hierarchy and extraction. They previously worked at the Wales Centre for Public Policy, acting as a knowledge broker between academia and government policymakers. They have an Msc in Social Science Research Methods, specialising in Science and Technology Studies. At Lancaster University, they lead seminars on the LEC Economic Geography module, and the Sociology Media Research Lab. They are an active member of the Political Ecology of Agrarian Transition (PEAT) research group at Lancaster University.