Introduction
Ryan Bellinson is a Senior Research Fellow in Cities, Climate and Innovation with University College London, Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose. He is an action-oriented urban researcher whose work intersects cities, climate change, community engagement, and governance innovation. He is also interested in how participative research approaches can advance theoretical understanding, achieve practical impact, and help create more just cities.
Expert
Ryan’s research explores the methods and practices local governments use to develop climate policy. Specifically, he is interested in analysing the complex governance structures that local governments develop climate policy through, the set of relationships involved in these governance approaches, and how governance innovations are facilitated within and through these arrangements used to determine climate policy. Ryan has examined how different pressures from international sustainable city networks to grassroots activism are contested and become internalised within local government climate policy development processes, creating the potential for novel policy outcomes. Through his work, Ryan has also explored how different research methods can produce rigorous theoretical findings and achieve practical impact.
Fields of expertise: Environmental policy / climate change, Participation, Policy design and delivery