Dr Sarwat Qureshi

Sarwat Qureshi is a Research Fellow at the University of Exeter’s Centre for Climate Communication and Data Science (C3DS). Her research focuses on climate change communication, natural language processing, mental health, machine learning, and large language models (LMMs) for narrative detection. She uses quantitative and qualitative social science methodologies. Sarwat received her PhD from the University of Derby in 2023, with a thesis titled “Application of Machine Learning in Autism Spectrum Disorder Screening”. Her research aimed to investigate the efficacy of machine learning models for the early and accurate detection of autism spectrum disorder.

She has collaborated with various organisations across academia, industry, climate change journalism, NGOs, digital humanities, and other stakeholders.