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‘Gentle disruptions’: A critical reflection on participatory arts in expanding the language system for meaningful community engagement around local climate adaptation (2024)
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Liguori, A., McEwen, L., Rossignol, K. L., Kraus, S., & Wilson, M. (in press). ‘Gentle disruptions’: A critical reflection on participatory arts in expanding the language system for meaningful community engagement around local climate adaptation. Journal of Extreme Events, https://doi.org/10.1142/S2345737624500015

This paper proposes a critical reflection on the use of language to address the challenge of promoting and supporting civic agencies in adaptation to increasing extreme weather risk. Such reflection needs to focus on the opportunities and limitations... Read More about ‘Gentle disruptions’: A critical reflection on participatory arts in expanding the language system for meaningful community engagement around local climate adaptation.

Exploring environmental value action gap and education research: A semi-systematic literature review (2024)
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Portus, R., Aarnio-Linnanvuori, E., Dillon, B., Fahy, F., Gopinath, D., Mansikka-Aho, A., …McEwen, L. (in press). Exploring environmental value action gap and education research: A semi-systematic literature review. Environmental Education Research, https://doi.org/10.1080/13504622.2024.2314060

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.

Reflections on co-productive research in a youth-focused climate education project (2024)
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Portus, R., Williams, S., Mansikka-aho, A., Reilly, K., Aarnio-Linnanvuori, E., de Vito, L., …McEwen, L. (in press). Reflections on co-productive research in a youth-focused climate education project. Geographical Research,

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.

Learning from young people’s experiences of climate change education (2024)
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Reilly, K., Dillon, B., Fahy, F., Phelan, D., Aarnio-Linnanvuori, E., De Vito, L., …McEwen, L. (2024). Learning from young people’s experiences of climate change education. Geography, 109(1), 44-48. https://doi.org/10.1080/00167487.2024.2297616

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.

Voices in a Pandemic: Using deep mapping to explore children’s changing sense of place during the COVID-19 pandemic in UK (2024)
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Webber, A., Jones, V., McEwen, L., Deave, T., Gorell Barnes, L., Williams, S., …Gopinath, D. (in press). Voices in a Pandemic: Using deep mapping to explore children’s changing sense of place during the COVID-19 pandemic in UK. Children's Geographies,

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 changing sense of place during the COVID-19 pandemic in UK.

The future of volunteering in extreme weather events: Critical reflections on key challenges and opportunities for climate resilience (2023)
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Forrest, S., Dostal, J., & McEwen, L. (in press). The future of volunteering in extreme weather events: Critical reflections on key challenges and opportunities for climate resilience. Journal of Extreme Events, https://doi.org/10.1142/S2345737623410038

Volunteers are playing a significant role in interacting with ongoing societal shocks and stresses, such as mobilising resources and supporting responses to extreme weather events. Their actions contribute to the pursuit of local climate resilience b... Read More about The future of volunteering in extreme weather events: Critical reflections on key challenges and opportunities for climate resilience.

The challenge of engaging communities on hidden risks: Co-developing a framework for Adaptive Participatory Storytelling Approaches (APSA) (2023)
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Roberts, L., Liguori, A., McEwen, L., & Wilson, M. (in press). The challenge of engaging communities on hidden risks: Co-developing a framework for Adaptive Participatory Storytelling Approaches (APSA). Journal of Extreme Events, https://doi.org/10.1142/s2345737623410026

The transdisciplinary Drought Risk and You (DRY) project aimed to interweave storytelling and science as a way of increasing the different voices and types of knowledge (specialist, local) within drought risk decision-making in the UK. This paper cri... Read More about The challenge of engaging communities on hidden risks: Co-developing a framework for Adaptive Participatory Storytelling Approaches (APSA).

Rebuffing the ‘hard to reach’ narrative: How to engage diverse groups in participation for resilience (2023)
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McEwen, L., Holmes, A., Cornish, F., Leichenko, R., Guida, K., Burchell, K., …Scott, M. (in press). Rebuffing the ‘hard to reach’ narrative: How to engage diverse groups in participation for resilience. Journal of Extreme Events, https://doi.org/10.1142/s2345737623500021

Across three years (2017–2020), the ESRC Seminar series, “Civil Agency, Society and Climate Adaptation to Weather Extremes” (CASCADE-NET) critically examined the changing role of civil society in extreme weather adaptation. One full-day seminar explo... Read More about Rebuffing the ‘hard to reach’ narrative: How to engage diverse groups in participation for resilience.

Is there room on the broom for a crip? Disabled women as experts in disaster planning (2023)
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Harrington, E., Bell, K., McEwen, L., & Everett, G. (in press). Is there room on the broom for a crip? Disabled women as experts in disaster planning. Journal of Extreme Events, https://doi.org/10.1142/s234573762350001x

Climate change-related extreme weather events are becoming more frequent and severe, requiring urgent action to effectively plan for them. While disabled women are one group likely to be disproportionately and negatively affected by disasters, they a... Read More about Is there room on the broom for a crip? Disabled women as experts in disaster planning.

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)
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Williams, S., McEwen, L. J., Gorell Barnes, L., Deave, T., Webber, A., Jones, V., …Hobbs, L. (2023). 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. Children & Society, 37(5), 1356-1375. https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12767

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.

Teaching hidden climate threats (2023)
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Jones, V., Williams, S., McEwen, L., Whitehouse, S., & Gorell Barnes, L. (in press). Teaching hidden climate threats. Primary Geography,

Winning the GA’s silver publishing award in 2020 for their e-book and associated teacher notes, the team behind the resource creation reflect on the impact of their work and the importance of climate discussions in the primary classroom. Over the... Read More about Teaching hidden climate threats.

Exploring the uses of arts-led community spaces to build resilience: Applied storytelling for successful co-creative work (2023)
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Liguori, A., Le Rossignol, K., Kraus, S., McEwen, L., & Wilson, M. (in press). Exploring the uses of arts-led community spaces to build resilience: Applied storytelling for successful co-creative work. Journal of Extreme Events, https://doi.org/10.1142/s2345737622500075

In a time of many extremes — climate, pandemic, isolation — there is strength in community linkages that can provide resilience through arts-generated connections. The arts-led recovery approach to communities suffering extreme events and social isol... Read More about Exploring the uses of arts-led community spaces to build resilience: Applied storytelling for successful co-creative work.

Learning from children’s experiences of lockdown: Talking about invisible threats (2023)
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Jones, V., McEwen, L., Webber, A., Williams, S., Deave, T., Hobbs, L., …Gorell Barnes, L. (2023). Learning from children’s experiences of lockdown: Talking about invisible threats. Primary Science, 7-9

In this article, the Voices in a Pandemic: Children’s Lockdown Experiences Applied to Recovery (VIP- CLEAR) team talk about the research they have undertaken in schools during the COVID-19 pandemic and how the voices of children need to be listened t... Read More about Learning from children’s experiences of lockdown: Talking about invisible threats.

The role of civil society in extreme events through a narrative reflection of pathways and long-term relationships (2023)
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Cobbing, P., Waller, E., & McEwen, L. (2023). The role of civil society in extreme events through a narrative reflection of pathways and long-term relationships. Journal of Extreme Events, 8(4), https://doi.org/10.1142/s2345737622500038

This reflective commentary is a facilitated exchange between two retired professionals in community risk management for extreme weather events – in two different cultural contexts. Paul Cobbing (formerly CEO UK National Flood Forum) and Ewan Waller (... Read More about The role of civil society in extreme events through a narrative reflection of pathways and long-term relationships.

Building local capacity for managing environmental risk: A transferable framework for participatory, place-based, science-narrative knowledge exchange (2022)
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McEwen, L., Roberts, L., Holmes, A., Blake, J., Liguori, A., & Taylor, T. (2022). Building local capacity for managing environmental risk: A transferable framework for participatory, place-based, science-narrative knowledge exchange. Sustainability Science, 17, 2489–2511. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-022-01169-0

This paper evaluates a unique, transdisciplinary participatory research and knowledge exchange methodology developed in the Drought Risk and You (DRY) project and offers it as a transferable framework for others engaging stakeholders and systemic con... Read More about Building local capacity for managing environmental risk: A transferable framework for participatory, place-based, science-narrative knowledge exchange.

Correlating floodplain geochemical profiles with archival historical mining records to establish depositional chronologies of river sediment (2022)
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Parker, A. J., Milan, D. J., & McEwen, L. J. (2022). Correlating floodplain geochemical profiles with archival historical mining records to establish depositional chronologies of river sediment. CATENA, 218, 106532. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2022.106532

Chronological markers in fluvial sediments can provide useful information on geomorphic response to historic catchment disturbance, and help explain historic channel morphodynamics. We concentrate on the River Nent catchment in Northern England, whic... Read More about Correlating floodplain geochemical profiles with archival historical mining records to establish depositional chronologies of river sediment.

Impact of reduced rainfall on above ground dry matter production of semi-natural grassland in South Gloucestershire, UK: A rainfall manipulation study (2021)
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Ayling, S. M., Thompson, J., Gray, A., & McEwen, L. J. (2021). Impact of reduced rainfall on above ground dry matter production of semi-natural grassland in South Gloucestershire, UK: A rainfall manipulation study. Frontiers in Environmental Science, 9, Article 686668. https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2021.686668

In the United Kingdom, agricultural grasslands cover 40% of the land area, make up 89% of the total agricultural area and are an important land use for ecosystem services and food security. Climate change predictions suggest that the United Kingdom w... Read More about Impact of reduced rainfall on above ground dry matter production of semi-natural grassland in South Gloucestershire, UK: A rainfall manipulation study.

Promoting water efficiency and hydrocitizenship in young people’s learning about drought risk in a temperate maritime country (2021)
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Jones, V., Whitehouse, S., McEwen, L., Williams, S., & Gorell Barnes, L. (2021). Promoting water efficiency and hydrocitizenship in young people’s learning about drought risk in a temperate maritime country. Water, 13(18), Article 2599. https://doi.org/10.3390/w13182599

Engaging young citizens with drought risk and positive water behaviours is essential in domestic water demand management within the wider climate crisis. This paper evaluates a new research-informed, picture book—‘DRY: The Diary of a Water Superhero’... Read More about Promoting water efficiency and hydrocitizenship in young people’s learning about drought risk in a temperate maritime country.