David Brown is a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Cambridge. At the Centre for Landscape Regeneration, he is working on developing a collaborative approach to adaptive change and a community regeneration toolkit across sites in the Cairngorms and the Cambridgeshire Fenlands.

His research investigates community perspectives on landscape and land-use change and draws from an environmental justice perspective, including a recent participatory project in Scottish Highlands communities at the University of East Anglia.