Katie McQuaid is Associate Professor in the School of Geography at the University of Leeds, UK. An anthropologist with expertise on climate change, gender and sexuality, ageing and intergenerationality, and forced displacement in informal urban settings, she was awarded a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship in 2019 to lead the GENERATE Project on: 'Gender, Generation and Climate Change: Creative Approaches to Building Inclusive and Climate Resilient Cities in Uganda and Indonesia’. Her work raises the profile, participation and leadership of marginalised communities including women, youth and older people, informal workers, refugees and asylum-seekers, people with disability, indigenous groups, and gender and sexual diverse people.