Dr Kat Fradera

  • Research Associate (Law)

Biography

I am a post doctoral research associate based within the School of Law with over 15 years’ experience working in environmental consenting and planning. I have detailed working knowledge of environmental regulation across UK nations and across both terrestrial and marine spaces.

My research explores spatial justice, environmental law and public participation in environmental decision making. My research experience has provided her with an in-depth understanding of the importance of lawscapes for contextualising spatial decisions. My research focuses on coastal and marine regulation.

 

Research interests

My main area of research interest is in the application of spatial justice to land-use decision making, particularly at the coast. Within this I am interested in the following areas:

- The development of environmental public law
- How spatial decisions are made within governance and regulatory frameworks
- The use of lawscapes (spatial justice) to understand values and power within decision-making
- Publicness of space theories and their application to coastal and marine environments
- Stakeholder engagement practices which increase decision-making transparency and justice

 

Current Research

I am currently researching flood adaptation and climate resilience through a spatial justice lens, investigating how to implement adaptation planning pathways. This work is being undertaken within the GALLANT (Glasgow as a Living Lab Accelerating Novel Transformation) research project. 

 

 

Publications

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Number of items: 4.

2025

Fairbrass, A. J., Fradera, K. , Shucksmith, R., Greenhill, L., Acott, T. and Ekins, P. (2025) Revealing gaps in marine evidence with a natural capital lens. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 380(1917), 20230214. (doi: 10.1098/rstb.2023.0214) (PMID:39780587)

2024

McKinley, E., Hughes, E., Georgia, S., Bowyer, C., Fradera, K. , Fairbrass, A. and Potts, J. (2024) Bringing the ocean to the stage: performing coastal values and marine management. Ocean and Society, 1, 8678. (doi: 10.17645/oas.8678)

2022

Collins, K. (2022) Co-production of knowledge as production of space: How we all give meaning to the sea. In: Gómez, S. and Köpsel, V. (eds.) Transdisciplinary Marine Research: Bridging Science and Society. Series: Earthscan oceans. Routledge, pp. 46-62. ISBN 9781003311171 (doi: 10.4324/9781003311171-4)

Collins, K. (2022) Shifting sands, layering meanings a tale of the Goodwin Sands, told through its social production. Shima, 16(1), pp. 199-225. (doi: 10.21463/shima.158)

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Number of items: 4.

Articles

Fairbrass, A. J., Fradera, K. , Shucksmith, R., Greenhill, L., Acott, T. and Ekins, P. (2025) Revealing gaps in marine evidence with a natural capital lens. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 380(1917), 20230214. (doi: 10.1098/rstb.2023.0214) (PMID:39780587)

McKinley, E., Hughes, E., Georgia, S., Bowyer, C., Fradera, K. , Fairbrass, A. and Potts, J. (2024) Bringing the ocean to the stage: performing coastal values and marine management. Ocean and Society, 1, 8678. (doi: 10.17645/oas.8678)

Collins, K. (2022) Shifting sands, layering meanings a tale of the Goodwin Sands, told through its social production. Shima, 16(1), pp. 199-225. (doi: 10.21463/shima.158)

Book Sections

Collins, K. (2022) Co-production of knowledge as production of space: How we all give meaning to the sea. In: Gómez, S. and Köpsel, V. (eds.) Transdisciplinary Marine Research: Bridging Science and Society. Series: Earthscan oceans. Routledge, pp. 46-62. ISBN 9781003311171 (doi: 10.4324/9781003311171-4)

This list was generated on Tue Mar 11 08:22:24 2025 GMT.

Professional activities & recognition

Professional & learned societies

  • 2023: Chartered Environmentalist and Full Member, IEMA