Outputs (26)

Climate action hub: Empowering youth engagement project report (2022)
Report
Laggan, S., Davies, L., Fogg-Rogers, L., Portus, R., Adkins, D., & Williams, S. Climate action hub: Empowering youth engagement project report. UKRI HEIF

This report summarises the knowledge exchange activities of the CAH-OOT project: Climate Action Hub - empOwering yOuth engagemenT. This project, funded by a joint faculty award from the Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF), enabled representatives... Read More about Climate action hub: Empowering youth engagement project report.

Youth Climate Communications Toolkit (2022)
Other
Davies, L., Fogg Rogers, L., Adkins, D., Portus, R., & Williams, S. (2022). Youth Climate Communications Toolkit. [Toolkit]. https://joom.ag/LGad

A toolkit for young people to campaign effectively on things that matter to them. Gain sustainability skills and competencies while creatively addressing key priorities for your place of study, place of work or community. For more information about t... Read More about Youth Climate Communications Toolkit.

The tale of an ecological whodunit (2022)
Journal Article
Portus, R. (2022). The tale of an ecological whodunit. BeeCraft Magazine,

This article considers how the colony collapse disorder crisis framed the decline of honeybee populations as an ecological whodunit. The work examines how this framing led to global interest in the bee decline, and has since encouraged significant ac... Read More about The tale of an ecological whodunit.

CCC - Catapult and co-production (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Portus, R. (2022, April). CCC - Catapult and co-production. Presented at Political Studies Association Annual Conference 2022, York

Exploring co-production with young people in challenging the climate crisis (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Williams, S., & Portus, R. (2022, March). Exploring co-production with young people in challenging the climate crisis. Paper presented at World Environmental Education Congress (WEEC), Prague (Online)

The CCC-CATAPULT (Challenging the Climate Crisis: Children’s Agency to TAckle Policy Underpinned by Learning for Transformation) project aims to critically examine educational, worldview and intercultural influences on young people’s (YP’s) climate a... Read More about Exploring co-production with young people in challenging the climate crisis.

Co-production and youth action partnerships: Introducing the ‘challenging the climate crisis’ project (2021)
Digital Artefact
Williams, S., Portus, R., Robertson, M., Preston, H., Griffiths, I., Pykett, E., …McEwen, L. (2021). Co-production and youth action partnerships: Introducing the ‘challenging the climate crisis’ project. [Blog]

To be a young person today is to face the prospect of an adulthood, which is shaped by environmental breakdown and climate emergency. The declarations of Climate Crisis and calls to action are widespread (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [IP... Read More about Co-production and youth action partnerships: Introducing the ‘challenging the climate crisis’ project.

'Aquify' in reimagining museums for climate action (2021)
Digital Artefact
Portus, R., & Portus, A. (2021). 'Aquify' in reimagining museums for climate action. [Edited Book]

Parental engagement research report (2021)
Report
Portus, R. (2021). Parental engagement research report. Future Quest

A report offering insight into parental engagement with higher education opportunities across Bristol and strategies for improving parent-carer focused higher education resources and outreach events.

An ecological whodunit: Examining loss and grievability in an age of extinction (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Portus, R. (2021, September). An ecological whodunit: Examining loss and grievability in an age of extinction. Presented at Loss, British Animal Studies Network, University of Birmingham (Online)

In a time when immeasurable numbers of Earth’s living species are having their timelines cut short, the bee decline stands out as a crisis which people have willingly and actively engaged with. This lightning talk will therefore examine the cultural... Read More about An ecological whodunit: Examining loss and grievability in an age of extinction.

Art and ecology: Reshaping environmental crises through creativity (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Portus, R. (2021, June). Art and ecology: Reshaping environmental crises through creativity. Presented at Curating Art & Nature: The Knowledge of the Curator III, University of Groningen

As extinction crises become an increased focus of contemporary environmental conversations, creative projects that engage with stories of loss have emerged as a visible fixture of the cultural and creative landscape. This invites the question of what... Read More about Art and ecology: Reshaping environmental crises through creativity.