Shiyi Zhang

Supervisors: Peter Sammonds and Sarah Dryhurst
Funding: Dean’s Prize and China Scholarship Council Scholarship
Email: shiyi.zhang.22@ucl.ac.uk

This research examines how climate change, especially heatwaves, affects people’s mental health and wellbeing. It explores how people perceive and experience heatwaves, and challenges that arise, to inform how societies and policies can better support resilience in a warming world.

Selected publications

Gong, Y., Zhang, S., Lun, X. & Sun, Y. (2024) ‘Just transition as practitioners’ acceptance of technical solutions to decarbonize: Insights from the glass manufacturing industry’, Energy Policy, 192, Article 114268.

Zhang, S., Jiang, K., Wang, L., Bongers, G., Hu, G. & Li, J. (2020) ‘Do the performance and efficiency of China’s carbon emission trading market change over time?’, Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 27(26), pp. 33140–33160.

Zhang, S., Jiang, K. & Yao, S. (2018) ‘Economic evaluation of a full value chain CO₂‑ECBM project in China’, Proceedings of the 14th Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies Conference, Melbourne, 21–26 October.

Teaching experience

Postgraduate Teaching Assistant 2024/25

• GEOG0073 Environmental Knowledges
• GEOG0007 Human Ecology

Postgraduate Teaching Assistant 2022/23

• IRDR0039 Humanitarian Policy