Emilie Beauchamp

Senior researcher, Strategy and Learning Group

Emilie’s work focuses on exploring the interactions between different types of environmental interventions, ecological and climate changes, and local livelihoods in resource-dependent communities in terrestrial landscapes. She specializes in developing and implementing evaluation and research designs to assess the effectiveness of development, climate, land and environmental interventions, especially with regards to the operationalisation of complex concepts, such as climate resilience, adaptation and human wellbeing.

Full biography

Her interests lie at the nexus of climate, conservation and land use research using applied and policy research, evaluation and multi-actor dialogues to provide evidence supporting national and international policies for sustainable development and planning.

Expertise

Social-ecological systems approach for sustainable development; assessing climate resilience in developing countries; monitoring and evaluation of conservation and development interventions; community-based interventions; econometrics and statistical modelling of socio-ecological data; training and capacity-building of local researchers in developing countries.

Emilie’s work has spread across Southeast Asia and Asia Pacific (Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea), West Africa (Senegal, Mali, Cameroon), East Africa (Kenya, Tanzania), Costa Rica, Barbados and India.

Before IIED

Emilie was a post-doctoral researcher working on climate resilience with the Community Ecology Research in Oxford (CERO) and the ICCS at the University of Oxford. Emilie previously worked as an analyst in corporate sustainability at Verdantix, as a policy analyst at DEFRA, and as environmental consultant for SM Group International.

Education

PhD, Centre for Environmental Policy and Division of Biology, Imperial College London
MSc, Environmental Technology, Imperial College London
BAH, International Development (International Relations and Economics), McGill University

Current work

Leading and managing strategic research and evaluation projects in climate and environment across IIED. Providing technical expertise institutionally specifically on MEL and research methods, approaches and designs to understand complexity and sustainable development, with a focus on causality and impact.

Evaluating climate change adaptation and environmental resource management interventions, for example measuring resilience and assessing institutional capacities in the Devolved Climate Finance mechanism.

Emilie is an appointed member (2020-22) of the UK Government’s “What Works Trial Advice Panel” that supports and advises civil servants across the UK government in designing and implementing effective impact evaluations of programmes and policies.

Emilie is also a research associate at the University of Oxford with the Interdisciplinary Centre for Conservation Science (ICCS).