All Outputs (26)

“I got hope but I don't have trust”: Exploring young people’s thoughts and feelings about the climate emergency (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The CCC-CATAPULT (Challenging the Climate Crisis: Children’s Agency to TAckle Policy Underpinned by Learning for Transformation) project critically examines educational and worldview influences on young people’s (15–18-year-olds) climate and environm... Read More about “I got hope but I don't have trust”: Exploring young people’s thoughts and feelings about the climate emergency.

Rachel Carson - searching for wonder (2023)
Book Chapter

Rachel Carson is one of the most famed environmentalists of the twentieth century who, in 1962, published her seminal book Silent Spring. Exposing the damaging effects of insecticides, Carson’s writing sparked an environmental movement which continue... Read More about Rachel Carson - searching for wonder.

The alternative nature toolkit: Where in the world is nature? (2023)
Digital Artefact

Published 11th April 2023 by Dr Rosamund Portus, Sadie Barnes and Dr Sara Williams, co-created with parents/guardians living across the Southwest of England.

This toolkit was created as part of the project ‘Nature Deficit Disorder in the Pandemic:... Read More about The alternative nature toolkit: Where in the world is nature?.

Guide to running a youth climate cafe (2022)
Digital Artefact

In 2022 researchers Sara-Jayne Williams and Rosamund Portus from the University of the West of England Bristol (UWE Bristol) collaborated with student interns Sadie Barnes and Mariana Fidalgo, as well as Youth Action Partner members, to develop a gui... Read More about Guide to running a youth climate cafe.

Connecting environment and community: Building students’ capacities as future environmental professionals (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

As we find ourselves in a period of environmental emergency, it has become clear that we need to transform environmental management teaching. Critically, we need to prepare students to become professionals who respond to environmental challenges as i... Read More about Connecting environment and community: Building students’ capacities as future environmental professionals.

The Stories We Tell: Exploring the Folklore of Bees in an Age of Extinction (2022)
Digital Artefact

Following the death of Queen Elizabeth II in September 2022, a curious news story was circulated. This story reported that, following the Queen’s death, the royal beekeeper had paid an official visit to the hives at Buckingham Palace to inform the ho... Read More about The Stories We Tell: Exploring the Folklore of Bees in an Age of Extinction.

Art and ecology: Encountering bee decline through creativity (2022)
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.

Performing extinction stories: Exploring creative responses to bee decline (2022)
Journal Article

As extinction becomes one of the most pressing crises of our time, projects that engage with nonhuman lives have emerged as a visible fixture of the creative landscape. This raises the question of what role creative explorations might play in shaping... Read More about Performing extinction stories: Exploring creative responses to bee decline.

‘Through their eyes and ears’: Creating new knowledge for climate education through co-productive practices (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Despite climate change being a well-established fact, public perception of the current climate situation as being an emergency is a relatively recent phenomenon. O’Neill and Nicholson-Cole (2009, p.361) wrote of the tendency to see climate change as... Read More about ‘Through their eyes and ears’: Creating new knowledge for climate education through co-productive practices.

Exploring co-production with young people in challenging the climate crisis (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

At a time when eco-anxiety is becoming a defining characteristic of young people’s lives (see: Hickman et al., 2021), there is a critical need to prioritise meaningful climate conversations within education. The ‘Challenging the Climate Crisis: Child... Read More about Exploring co-production with young people in challenging the climate crisis.

Climate action hub: Empowering youth engagement project report (2022)
Report

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

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

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 Contribution

Exploring co-production with young people in challenging the climate crisis (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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

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

Parental engagement research report (2021)
Report

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 Contribution

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 Contribution

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.