Dr Rosamund Portus' Outputs (14)
Buzzing about bees: Exploring action-based storytelling as a tool for children’s environmental engagement and agency (2025)
Journal Article
This article considers innovative research in neuroscience and psychology showing that we need to transform environmental storytelling, moving away from stories focused on awareness raising, to ones which develop people’s capacity for action. We inve... Read More about Buzzing about bees: Exploring action-based storytelling as a tool for children’s environmental engagement and agency.
Reading slowly together: Facilitated climate literature book clubs and their potential for engaging young people with climate crisis (2024)
Journal Article
Engaging young people with the effects and potential future impacts of climate crisis is essential for facilitating the changes required. These topics and their consequences can be overwhelming, and the emotional responses equally diverse, from anxie... Read More about Reading slowly together: Facilitated climate literature book clubs and their potential for engaging young people with climate crisis.
Bridging voices in the climate crisis: The role of hope in young people’s participation (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
This output is a set of slides associated with the conference presentation 'Bridging voices in the climate crisis: The role of hope in young people’s participation'. The lead author is Sadie Barnes, in collaboration with Enda Hayes, Sara-Jayne Willia... Read More about Bridging voices in the climate crisis: The role of hope in young people’s participation.
Exploring the association between growth mindsets and climate action with young people (2024)
Journal Article
Decades of research has demonstrated the power of growth mindsets (i.e. belief in the malleability of the qualities of humans) to shape people’s ways of making sense of their socio-cultural reality and influence their ways of thinking about and actin... Read More about Exploring the association between growth mindsets and climate action with young people.
Student responses to climate knowledge: Enabling climate concern to flourish (2024)
Journal Article
Purpose: This paper aims to examine a co-produced initiative implemented at the [University Name] between September 2022 and April 2023. The student-led project (Climate, Conversations and Cake: The 3C’s) addressed environmental and climate crisis aw... Read More about Student responses to climate knowledge: Enabling climate concern to flourish.
Qualitative research seminar: Planning co-productive research with young people (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Join us for an engaging research seminar as we delve into the insights garnered from the CCC-CATAPULT research project, aimed at exploring young people's experiences of climate education. Throughout the session, we will present some principles that w... Read More about Qualitative research seminar: Planning co-productive research with young people.
Reflections on co-productive research in a youth-focused climate education project (2024)
Journal Article
The 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child emphasises the value of listening to young people’s voices. Since its inception, there have been significant moves to involve young people in research that concerns their lives in a time of environmen... Read More about Reflections on co-productive research in a youth-focused climate education project.
Exploring environmental value action gap and education research: A semi-systematic literature review (2024)
Journal Article
Despite rising levels of interest in global environmental challenges, progress towards the widespread adoption of pro-environmental behaviours remains slow and inconsistent. Previous literature identifies the importance of education for working to ad... Read More about Exploring environmental value action gap and education research: A semi-systematic literature review.
Learning from young people’s experiences of climate change education (2024)
Journal Article
This article centres on young people’s experiences of climate change education (CCE). There is much written on CCE (e.g. what it is, what it should be, how it should be taught, where it should be taught), but there is little exploring young people’s... Read More about Learning from young people’s experiences of climate change education.
Making a song and dance about it: The Plan Bee project (2024)
Newspaper / Magazine
This magazine article examines the arts council funded 'Plan Bee' project. The work shares details about the bee-focused workshops shared in schools, exploring how this connects to wider knowledge regarding environment storytelling.
Using narrative tools: How to explore young people’s vision of transformative learning places for climate change education (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Abstract:
Drawing from the experiences of the CCC-CATAPULT project (www.ccc-catapult.org), the proposed session shares a tool to support youth visioning of transformative learning places for Climate Change Education (CCE). The CCC-CATAPULT project... Read More about Using narrative tools: How to explore young people’s vision of transformative learning places for climate change education.
Art and ecology: Encountering bee decline through creativity (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
As concern for bees’ survival becomes an increased focus of environmental conversations, projects that engage with bee decline have emerged as a visible fixture of the creative landscape. This invites the question of what role creative practitioners... Read More about Art and ecology: Encountering bee decline through creativity.