Lacee is currently working as a Research Analyst at Miller Research after completing her second postgraduate degree from the University of Edinburgh with a MSc Energy, Society and Sustainability. She also holds an MA Conflict Transformation and Social Justice from the Queen’s University of Belfast, as well as a BA in Political Science from Utah Valley University. Her time in academia included time spent studying Constitutional Studies at Pembroke College, Oxford, as well as a half-year in Russia and Northern Ireland studying and conducting peace work.

Prior to joining Miller Research, Lacee worked with coal communities across the Western United States to facilitate Just Transitions across infrastructure, economic development, and policy dimensions. She also holds extensive experience working with private, governmental and third-sector organisations as a consultant and strategist to understand, translate and act on the world’s most pressing social and environmental issues.

Her research interests include the Just Transition, energy policy, rural economic development, poverty, women’s issues, justice and conflict. Her undergraduate dissertation reviewed the policy-making structures in prisons and criminal justice reform organisations across the United States. Following this, her MA dissertation developed and expanded on the theory of othering, to understand cultural and social barriers to re-entry, and her MSc dissertation evaluated the barriers and opportunities created by the intersection of large energy infrastructure in coastal communities in Eastern Scotland. At Miller Research, Lacee has worked across several projects including:

• A formal evaluation and impact analysis for the Media Cymru programme;
• Support for the delivery and implementation for the Plymouth Sound National Marine Park programme;
• Analysis of public engagement findings for Wales’ Carbon Budget 3 plan.

Outside of work, Lacee enjoys Munro bagging, baking, writing fiction stories, and exploring new places with her best friend, her dog Louis.