Dr Anna Barford is a social and economic Geographer working at the University of Cambridge. She is currently researching how work and livelihoods intersect with environmental problems and solutions. She has several active research projects: (1) how the crises of climate change and COVID-19 intersect with young people’s livelihoods in Uganda, Nepal and Indonesia, (2) informal work in circular systems in lower- and middle-income countries, and (3) how companies and countries are transitioning to become more circular.