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The KCL Climate Law & Governance Reading Group is a student-led initiative that aims to provide a forum for reflective and critical interdisciplinary discussion. Through monthly readings and group discussions, participants are invited to engage with topics that lie beyond, but are related to, their areas of expertise. In March, we will reflect on the communication of climate change research. Over the past decade, climate change become a prominent subject in public discourse and it has evolved as an area of interest for a wide variety of non-academic stakeholders, including government policy makers, capital market regulators, multilateral developmental banks and NGOsAs researchers, we might also have the aspiration to make our knowledge relevant to policy and the area that we are conducting research in. This reading group will discuss the challenges of communicating climate change research: How should we communicate with the wider public? What are some tried and tested strategies? And what are potential tensions and challenges? 

Discussion questions

(1) What are the challenges of communicating climate change research to a non-academic audience?

(2) To what extent are the strategies suggested by the readings applicable to your research?  

(3) Can you share with us your experience of communicating your research on climate change to a non-academic audience? What were the challenges that you have faced and how did you overcome them?  

Readings for the session:

  • Moser, S. C. (2016). Reflections on climate change communication research and practice in the second decade of the 21st century: what more is there to say?. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change7(3), 345-369.
  • Nerlich, B., Koteyko, N., & Brown, B. (2010). Theory and language of climate change communication. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 1(1), 97-110.

 

Event details

SW1.17, Somerset House East Wing
Strand Campus
Strand, London, WC2R 2LS