Monica Bernal Llanos
- Position
- Project Manager/Research Fellow
- Areas of expertise
- Climate change adaptation, Disaster risk reduction, Racial inequalities
- [email protected]
- Location
- University of Leeds (working remotely from London)
- School
- School of Law
Monica Bernal Llanos holds a PhD in Development Planning from University College London (UCL). Her main research interests are climate change and systemic racism, as the two major and interconnected (via socio environmental injustices) ills of humanity. Monica’s doctoral studies focused on the co-production of knowledge and politics for climate change adaptation in Colombia, and she’s also conducted empirical research on public perceptions on the history of teaching and research of eugenics at UCL.
In her previous role as Research Fellow for Co-POWeR, another University of Leeds-led interdisciplinary and interinstitutional research project and consortium, Monica investigated the emergency powers issued by the Coronavirus Act 2020 to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic, focusing on their disproportionate use as well as their direct and indirect impacts on Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities in the UK.
Monica has worked in Bogota, Lima and London, using participatory action research whilst working hand in hand with disenfranchised communities as well as with government officials, the private sector and members of the civil society.