Neda Peiravian is a visiting researcher at the CEDaR Resource Center, before joining the CEDaR she received her Bachelors degree in Sociology from Shiraz University and finished her MSc in urban and regional planning at the University of Birmingham. Her master thesis project was on the subject of resilience and coping with energy vulnerability in everyday life and she has evaluated the extend to which households in deprived communities are facing pressures associated with energy poverty and assessed the coping tactics which developed to tackle the issue. Her research interests include climate change adaptation and mitigation, energy vulnerability, environmental planning and spatial analysis.