Claire Walsh is a Lecturer in the Water Group in the School of Engineering at Newcastle University, UK. With over 18 years of experience her research focuses on long term change (including climate change) in both natural environments and engineered systems, in particular looking at impacts for drought, urban flooding, sustainable infrastructure and ecosystem services and how to determine holistic, cross-disciplinary solutions to such problems. Much of her work involves working closely with end-users to co-define research challenges and co-design research to ensure maximum uptake, dissemination and impact.
She currently co-leads the UK’s National Green Infrastructure Facility located at Newcastle University and is actively conducting research in Colombia, Ethiopia, India, Malaysia and Uganda. Claire also leads Newcastle University’s Global Challenge Network on Water Security.
