Dr Sindi-Leigh McBride is a postdoctoral research fellow in the History Department at Princeton University. She holds a PhD in African Studies from the University of Basel (2024) and MA degrees in Political Communication (2015) and International Relations (2011) from the University of Cape Town. Dr McBride researches and writes about different approaches to understanding climate change in Africa and is particularly interested in climate impacts on young people in the Global South. She is currently the climate change lead on the u’GOOD research programme on young people and relational wellbeing.

At the Human Sciences Research Council, Sindi-Leigh worked on the longitudinal research study, The Imprint of Education, funded by the Mastercard Foundation and supporting the development of the African Youth Livelihoods Virtual Museum. She has held fellowships at Edinburgh College of Art at the University of Edinburgh (2024) and at Michaelis School of Art at the University of Cape Town (2023). Before her doctoral studies, she worked as a researcher at the South African Human Rights Commission, for the South African government and for various South African civil society organisations.

Dr McBride is working on her first monograph based on her doctoral research into knowledge about climate change in South Africa and Nigeria and has published seven scientific articles and book chapters in local and international peer-reviewed academic journals. She is a co-editor of a special issue on "African Youth Livelihoods" for Youth Voices Journal, and of Lost Libraries, Burnt Archives (2023), a collected volume in response to the tragic destruction of the African Studies Library at the University of Cape Town to fire in April 2021.