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The challenge of engaging communities on hidden risks: Co-developing a framework for Adaptive Participatory Storytelling Approaches (APSA) (2023)
Journal Article
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).

Understanding how value, power and expertise circulates in (creative) knowledge exchange programmes (2023)
Journal Article
Roberts, L. (in press). Understanding how value, power and expertise circulates in (creative) knowledge exchange programmes. Creative Industries Journal, https://doi.org/10.1080/17510694.2023.2210706

This paper uses the South West Creative Technology Network (SWCTN) in the South West, UK, as a case study to examine the diverse economies evident in knowledge exchange (KE) programmes delivering university-industry research and development (R&D). Co... Read More about Understanding how value, power and expertise circulates in (creative) knowledge exchange programmes.

Building local capacity for managing environmental risk: A transferable framework for participatory, place-based, science-narrative knowledge exchange (2022)
Journal Article
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.

The health and well-being effects of drought: Assessing multi-stakeholder perspectives through narratives from the UK (2020)
Journal Article
Bryan, K., Ward, S., Roberts, L., White, M. P., Landeg, O., Taylor, T., & McEwen, L. (2020). The health and well-being effects of drought: Assessing multi-stakeholder perspectives through narratives from the UK. Climatic Change, 163(4), 2073-2095. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-020-02916-x

The global literature on drought and health highlights a variety of health effects for people in developing countries where certain prevailing social, economic and environmental conditions increase their vulnerability especially with climate change.... Read More about The health and well-being effects of drought: Assessing multi-stakeholder perspectives through narratives from the UK.

Narratives as a mode of research evaluation in citizen science: Understanding broader science communication impacts (2017)
Journal Article
Roberts, E., & Constant, N. (2017). Narratives as a mode of research evaluation in citizen science: Understanding broader science communication impacts. Journal of Science Communication, 16(4),

Science communicators develop qualitative and quantitative tools to evaluate the ‘impact’ of their work however narrative is rarely adopted as a form of evaluation. We posit narrative as an evaluative approach for research projects with a core scienc... Read More about Narratives as a mode of research evaluation in citizen science: Understanding broader science communication impacts.

A review of the rural-digital policy agenda from a community resilience perspective (2016)
Journal Article
Roberts, E., Anderson, B. A., Skerratt, S., & Farrington, J. (2017). A review of the rural-digital policy agenda from a community resilience perspective. Journal of Rural Studies, 54, 372-385. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2016.03.001

© 2016 The Authors This paper utilises a community resilience framework to critically examine the digital-rural policy agenda. Rural areas are sometimes seen as passive and static, set in contrast to the mobility of urban, technological and globalisa... Read More about A review of the rural-digital policy agenda from a community resilience perspective.

The Contribution of the Creative Economy to the Resilience of Rural Communities: Exploring Cultural and Digital Capital (2015)
Journal Article
Roberts, E., & Townsend, L. (2016). The Contribution of the Creative Economy to the Resilience of Rural Communities: Exploring Cultural and Digital Capital. Sociologia Ruralis, 56(2), 197-219. https://doi.org/10.1111/soru.12075

© 2016 European Society for Rural Sociology. This article develops understanding of cultural and digital capital in order to evaluate the contribution of creative practitioners to rural community resilience. Online practices today impact on creative... Read More about The Contribution of the Creative Economy to the Resilience of Rural Communities: Exploring Cultural and Digital Capital.

Evaluating New Digital Technologies Through a Framework of Resilience (2015)
Journal Article
Roberts, E., Farrington, J., & Skerratt, S. (2015). Evaluating New Digital Technologies Through a Framework of Resilience. Scottish Geographical Journal, 131(3-4), 253-264. https://doi.org/10.1080/14702541.2015.1068947

© 2015 The Author(s). Published by Taylor & Francis. This paper explores how an evaluative framework of resilience might be utilised to assess the impact of new digital technologies. This paper outlines key themes and indicators from recent literat... Read More about Evaluating New Digital Technologies Through a Framework of Resilience.