Alba Skidmore Lapuente is a Research Assistant at BC3 (Basque Centre for Climate Change) within the BlueAdapt project. She works in the Health and Climate research group within the Adaptation Lab research line. After completing her BSc in Biology at the University of Leeds (2022), she obtained her MSc in Environment and Development at Lancaster University (2024) achieving a distinction grade.

For her Master’s thesis, in collaboration with UKRI GCRF Living Deltas Research Hub, she researched the impacts of flooding and riverbank erosion on livelihood sustainability and sanitation in Bangladesh, applying a Feminist Political Ecology approach to explore gender disparities reinforced by climate change. While undertaking her Master´s degree, she gained further experience through working at DEFRA (UK Governmental Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs).