Stewart’s research focuses on behavioural change and the ways in which we can develop co-benefits from changes in everyday practices for climate change and health. His research has recently focused on personal mobility and the promotion of active travel and low-carbon tourist mobility. He is also working on understanding place-based sustainability controversies, such as the roll-out of low-traffic neighbourhoods and 15-minutes cities. This research is designed to understand the factors that contribute to such controversies and ways of negotiating such flashpoints.
Stewart’s teaching in Geography focuses on socio-cultural approaches towards managing the climate emergency and includes a no-fly international field course called Environmental Futures to Freiburg and the Black Forest, where they examine the co-benefits of sustainable land use planning, active travel and nature in the city for climate and human health.
