With great pleasure I coordinate KUNO, meaning that I am responsible for managing the platform towards its aims. I care about research and knowledge contributing to more adaptive humanitarian action, and ultimately to social and environmental justice. I wish to contribute to that by listening well to KUNO’s members, picking up on their key questions and facilitating co-learning through engaging gatherings.

Late 2025 I completed a PhD in the field of Political Ecology, looking at the militarisation of climate mitigation and adaptation, with a regional focus in the Eastern Himalayas. I continue to do research on militarised ecologies, looking at interrelations between climate change, militarism, climate securities and social and ecological harm of war.

Before KUNO, I led the Centre for Unusual Collaborations, a centre of expertise for inter- and transdisciplinary research collaborations, from its inception to a well-established and recognised space in academia. Earlier still, I worked for over a decade as policy adviser at WOTRO Science for Global Development, at the Dutch Science Council (NWO), where I coordinated research programmes on conflicts over natural resources and climate change, food and nutrition security, and more.

Whenever opportunity arises, I am outside, growing food and watching birds. In addition, I read, lots of reading, mostly novels, preferably feminist and decolonial stories, the classics and sci-fi.

Peer-reviewed 

• CUCo (2024) Finding joy, creativity and meaning through unusual interdisciplinary collaborations, Nature HSS Comms  
• Lamain C (2023) Whose security? Politics, risks and alternatives for climate security  practices in agrarian-environmental perspectives, Journal of Peasant Studies  
• Lamain, C (2022) Conflicting securities: contributions to a critical research agenda on  climate security, Globalizations 
• Thoto, F.S., M.D. Houessou, C. Lamain & R.C. Gbedomon. (2020) The private sector in knowledge processes and partnerships for food and nutrition security in the Global South:a case study from the Dutch Food and Business Applied Research Fund programme, Knowledge Management for Development Journal   

Blogposts 

• Triyanti, A, Lamain, C, Duncan, J, Student, J (2024). Understanding exclusion, sharing benefits and building in reflection in transdisciplinary collaborations, Integration and Implementation Insights  
• Triyanti, A, van Paassen, B, Lamain, C, Duncan, J, Collen Ladeia Torrens, J, Student, J (2024). Towards fair transdisciplinary collaborations that honour epistemic justice, Integration and Implementation Insights  
• Lamain, C, Student, J (2024) Not just in our heads: Embodied and creative practices for creating connection. Integration and Implementation Insights 
• van Sassen, J., Lamain, C, van Gemerden, F (2023) Transdisciplinary research: if it’s so important, why aren’t we all doing it? AWTI Newsletter 
• García López, G, Andreucci, D, Lamain, C, Boston, D, Balamir, S, Karch, J (2021) Green New Deals: Beyond growth? DevISSues 
• EmboDegrowth Lab – Calmon, D, Gerber, J-F, Kaul, S, Kiggell, T, Lamain, C, Morrow, O, Sekine, Y, van Woerden, W (2021) Embodying degrowth and turning the movement inside out DevISSues 
• Lamain, C (2021) Whose Climate Security? Or why we should worry about security language in climate action, BLiss 
• Yeboah Gyapong, A, Shah, A, Lamain, C, Mills, E, Bruna, N, Coronado, S, Sekine, Y (2020)  Resource Grabbing in a Changing Environment, EADI/ISS Blog Series 

Documentary 

• 1=1=3: overcoming the barriers of interdisciplinary research