All Outputs (130)

Towards effective knowledge co-production and deliberation: developing public engagement competencies among scientists and policymakers (2025)
Journal Article

Governments committed to the Paris Agreement are obligated to empower the public to participate in decision-making on climate change. Research shows that higher levels of public engagement (PE) lead to fairer, more inclusive, and socially acceptable... Read More about Towards effective knowledge co-production and deliberation: developing public engagement competencies among scientists and policymakers.

Empowering youth: Communicating sustainability and green skills through Minecraft (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This presentation explores the innovative use of Minecraft as a multifaceted tool for engaging children and young people in sustainability education. By integrating game-based learning, we have developed programs that allow participants to design and... Read More about Empowering youth: Communicating sustainability and green skills through Minecraft.

Women in Industry Wave 1 Evaluation Report 2024 (2025)
Report

The Engineering and Construction sectors are cornerstone employers in the West of England and need both greater numbers and greater diversity of new entrants to sustain growth in these industries. Through focussing on both recruitment and retention s... Read More about Women in Industry Wave 1 Evaluation Report 2024.

Making and knowledge exchange for repair and sustainability (2024)
Report

The MAKERS project at UWE Bristol enhances belonging among diverse engineering students through sustainability and repair activities, whilst tackling the Climate and Ecological Emergency in partnership with local communities.
Launched in 2023, a mo... Read More about Making and knowledge exchange for repair and sustainability.

Can a student-led Repair Café develop a sense of belonging and provide hands-on experiences for engineering students? (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Repair Cafés offer an effective challenge to the “throwaway society” providing a space where communities can work together to repair. Meanwhile, it has been shown that for engineering students from under-represented backgrounds, hands-on environments... Read More about Can a student-led Repair Café develop a sense of belonging and provide hands-on experiences for engineering students?.

Exploring inner-outer sustainability competencies with young people: The TAKE ACTION report (2024)
Report

This report explores green career aspirations and how they relate to competency development and learning approaches. 669 young people were engaged during this project, exposed to various engagement approaches. The report finds that empowering approac... Read More about Exploring inner-outer sustainability competencies with young people: The TAKE ACTION report.

Be less scientist, be more human: Scientists and policymakers mastering the art of public engagement in environmental governance (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In environmental psychology, a disconnection from nature is often studied but a disconnection from one another is less commonly discussed. Through a similar process of industrial growth, researchers and policymakers have been distanced from fellow hu... Read More about Be less scientist, be more human: Scientists and policymakers mastering the art of public engagement in environmental governance.

MAKERS - Making and knowledge exchange for repair & sustainability (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Research indicates that STEM activities which draw on wider societal or environmental purpose (communal goals) are more attractive to women. Maker projects have also been shown to improve identity and agency in STEM for black men and encourage engage... Read More about MAKERS - Making and knowledge exchange for repair & sustainability.

The role of enjoyment and affective arousal in air pollution and climate change decision-making (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Diverse citizens need to be involved in net zero transitions to ensure policy interventions do not entrench inequalities for people from minoritised or disenfranchised groups and ensure public engagement with rapid social changes. This talk draws on... Read More about The role of enjoyment and affective arousal in air pollution and climate change decision-making.

Policy evidence for community climate action (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The West of England Combined Authority (WECA) region has pledged to reach Net Zero emissions by 2030 - 20 years earlier than UK Government ambitions. The area has a population of over 1.1 million people across the cities of Bristol and Bath, alongsi... Read More about Policy evidence for community climate action.

Measuring the impacts of participatory citizen science: Lessons from the WeCount sustainable mobility project (2024)
Journal Article

WeCount was designed to empower citizens in five case studies across Europe to take a leading role in the production of data, evidence, knowledge and solutions for local sustainable mobility. This practice insight aims to explore the suitability and... Read More about Measuring the impacts of participatory citizen science: Lessons from the WeCount sustainable mobility project.

Using problem and project-based learning to integrate sustainability in engineering education (2024)
Other

Engineering graduates are increasingly required to implement sustainability focussed initiatives within industry, alongside enhanced expectations from professional bodies and the UK specification (UK-SPEC) for engineers (Engineering Council, 2024). H... Read More about Using problem and project-based learning to integrate sustainability in engineering education.

Living the change you want to see: The importance of role modelling and mentoring for diverse culture change (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

As a social psychologist, Laura explores how to embed theories about groups and communications into practice, developing projects with communities to enable climate action and sustainable development. In this talk, she outlines how role modelling and... Read More about Living the change you want to see: The importance of role modelling and mentoring for diverse culture change.

Role modelling climate action in communities (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

As a social psychologist, Laura explores how to embed theories about groups and communications into practice, developing projects with communities to enable climate action and sustainable development. In this talk, she outlines how role modelling an... Read More about Role modelling climate action in communities.

Voices in a pandemic: using deep mapping to explore children’s sense of place during the COVID-19 pandemic in UK (2024)
Journal Article

Children’s sense of place is important for wellbeing, development and belonging in a community or place. The VIP-CLEAR (Voices in a Pandemic – Children’s Lockdown Experiences Applied to Recovery) project used creative methods and repeat engagement t... Read More about Voices in a pandemic: using deep mapping to explore children’s sense of place during the COVID-19 pandemic in UK.

Curiosity Connections - Inspire Sustainability 2024 (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Curiosity Connections is the network for inspirational science education in the West of England. Our aim is that every child will have an inspirational and relevant science education. The network is managed by the Inspire Sustainability team in UWE B... Read More about Curiosity Connections - Inspire Sustainability 2024.

Citizen-led emissions reduction: Enhancing enjoyment and understanding for diverse citizen engagement with air pollution and climate change decision making (2024)
Journal Article

Diverse citizens need to be involved in net zero transitions to ensure policy interventions do not entrench inequalities for people from minoritised or disenfranchised groups and ensure public engagement with rapid social changes. This paper illustra... Read More about Citizen-led emissions reduction: Enhancing enjoyment and understanding for diverse citizen engagement with air pollution and climate change decision making.

Trusted research environments for health data (2024)
Digital Artefact

This video captures the workshop on 'Trusted Research Environments for Health Data', delivered by David Western, Felix Ritchie, and Andy Gibson. This was part of the Connect, Collaborate, Create with Data and AI 2023 event organised by UWE Bristol an... Read More about Trusted research environments for health data.

We make our future: Final project report (2023)
Report

We Make Our Future is a planetarium show developed by the Inspire Sustainability team at UWE Bristol and outreach experts Explorer Dome. The show celebrates the ingenuity of human engineering, and our potential to tackle huge problems such as the Cli... Read More about We make our future: Final project report.

The tree(s) of hope and ambition: An arts-based social science informed, participatory research method to explore children's future hopes, ambitions and support in relation to COVID-19 (2023)
Journal Article

This paper offers a new child-centred methodology that explores children's visions of their futures, encourages self-reflection and depth and shares children's voices with peers and researchers, as unbrokered as possible. This final stage of a longit... Read More about The tree(s) of hope and ambition: An arts-based social science informed, participatory research method to explore children's future hopes, ambitions and support in relation to COVID-19.