Staff profile

Millicent is a PhD student in the Department of Biosciences at Durham University looking at how the European Arctic forest-tundra ecotone is currently changing under climate warming through mapping the current extent of the treeline and then modelling to understand how the ecotone will change under future climate warming. She is supervised across Biosciences and Geography taking an interdisciplinary approach to further understanding of vegetation change under climate warming. She is interested in the interplay between ecology, remote sensing, modelling, and field validation. She holds the Faculty of Science Pro:NorthEast studentship in Biosciences aimed at retaining doctoral students of colour in the North East. 

She is externally involved in the Circumpolar Arctic Vegetation Science Initiative, the updating of the Pan-Arctic Species list, and the UK Arctic Terrestrial Priorities report as an organising committee member. She is also the ECR co-Chair of the Diversity in Polar Science Initiative steering committee (paused as of June 2026). She led the IASC Terrestrial Working group grant 'CONTACT' in 2025 and is co-author on the IASC cross-cutting grant 'Updated PASL incorporating Indigenous Names and Knowledge'.

Millicent has an Masters by Research and BSc in Physical Geography from the Department of Geography at Durham University.