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Links have been established with

  • Climate Outreach and Information Network (COIN), a national charity specialising in climate change communication (http://coinet.org.uk)
  • Professor Mike Hulme, the Founding Director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research (http://www.tyndall.ac.uk/)
  • Professor Guy Cook (Centre for Language and Communication, the Open University), who is interested in a corpus based, focus group and reader research on climate change
  • Professor Nick Pidgeon,  Director of a major project supported by the Leverhulme Trust (2007-2010) exploring risk attitudes and behaviour in relation to climate change and energy choices, as well as aspects of public deliberation about this critical environmental challenge
  • Dr Martin Doering who is interested in questions circling around metaphor and ecology, especially ecolinguistics and discoursive strategies in the protection of nature and environmental management. (http://www.uni-hamburg.de/fachbereiche-einrichtungen/fg_ta_med/doering.html)
  • Dr Georgina Endfield at the School of Geography, Nottingham University, whose research interests include: Climate and environmental history; historical conceptualisation of climate change; social responses and adaptation to climate change and extreme weather events. (http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/geography/contacts/a-z/index.phtml?name=endfield).
  • Katherine Shepherd, Policy & European Funding Manager, Marches Energy Agency Ltd (MEA).  MEA, as a sustainable energy and climate change charity, works with communities and organisations in the West Midlands to promote leadership and deliver appropriate renewable energy, energy saving and efficiency, and sustainable transport solutions.
  • Dr Andrea Wheeler, ESRC Early Careers Interdisciplinary Research Fellow at the University of Nottingham. Andrea is working on the project ‘Reasons for living: Young peoples perspectives on building sustainable schools’. One of the project aims is to describe workshops carried out with young people asked to discuss their understandings of sustainable behaviour and demonstrate through an analysis of their narratives their understanding of the relationships between space, identity and behavioural change.  
  • Dr Arran Stibbe, Senior Lecturer at the University of Gloucestershire. Arran’s current specialisation is in ecological linguistics, which involves investigating the ecologically destructive effects of discourses such as consumerism, and searching for alternative discourses which encourage more sustainable practices. He is the founder of the Language & Ecology Research Forum and Language and Ecology journal http://www.ecoling.net/journal.html.

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