Heather serves as Co-Convenor for the Political Studies Association’s (PSA) environmental politics specialist group, as Chair of the PSA’s Early Career Network, and is an active member of the Utopian Studies Society. Heather also frequently publishes on news platforms such as The Conversation and the Independent. Heather’s PhD thesis involved an ecocritical examination of radical environmental activists (REA’s) as contemporary ecotopian manifestations amid the socio-ecological perturbations of the Anthropocene.