Dr. Dani Admiss is an interdisciplinary researcher, writer and curator working across climate governance, infrastructural systems and cultural practice. Her work examines how environmental strategies — particularly around decarbonisation, carbon removal and net zero transitions — are shaped through systems of governance, economic continuity and technological infrastructure, and why these approaches often reproduce the conditions they aim to transform.

Drawing on political ecology, science and technology studies, and participatory research methodologies, her research explores how tools such as carbon accounting, evaluation frameworks and policy standards make complex socio-ecological systems legible for decision-making. She is particularly interested in the tensions between planetary climate imperatives and place-based social, ecological and economic realities.

Alongside her academic research, Dani brings over twenty years of experience as an artist and curator working across the UK and internationally. Her practice focuses on collaborative learning, public engagement and interdisciplinary forms of inquiry that bring together artistic, scientific and community-based knowledge. Through workshops, labs, writing and participatory research processes, she develops approaches that treat uncertainty, disagreement and complexity as conditions for collective learning rather than problems to be resolved.

Her work has included projects exploring just transition, environmental governance, infrastructural systems and the social afterlives of carbon. In 2020, she founded Sunlight Doesn’t Need a Pipeline, a collaborative research initiative investigating equitable decarbonisation within the cultural sector. She has worked with organisations including Artangel, Stanley Picker Gallery, Arts Catalyst and Radar, Loughborough University, and has taught internationally across art, design and research contexts.

Dani was awarded an AHRC-funded PhD in Curatorial Practice and World-Building and is currently completing an MSc in Climate Change Management at the University of Edinburgh. Her current writing and research project, Carbon Afterlives, explores how carbon is displaced, stored and governed across infrastructures, supply chains and everyday life.

Across both research and practice, she is interested in how institutions, policymakers and communities can develop forms of governance that remain accountable to complexity while responding responsibly to climate and ecological change.