In November, Centre-UB co-hosted a public engagement event with the University of Birmingham’s Public Engagement team bringing behavioural research about climate action to the public. More than 50 members of the public joined us for the evening at the Exchange. We were delighted to also be joined by Dr Nia Coupe from BR-UK and the University of Manchester. The event was organised by our Centre-UB Environmental Change and Sustainability pillar theme lead, Dr Rebecca McDonald.
We were joined by colleagues from across the disciplines and representatives from our partner organisations (e.g., Twycross Zoo and the James Hutton Institute) contributing to discussions with the public about this important topic. Panel discussions included “The Environmental Conversation: What we say, who says it, and why it matters”, for which our very own PhD student, Andrea Rizzardi Orlandi, was a panel member. A second panel was on the topic of “Tools or Traps? How technology shapes our environmental choices”.
The evening was also packed with interactive activities including a session with Tat Vision, a Birmingham artist, on creative climate pledges made on bee-friendly seed paper.
Our PhD students, Oscar, Sanoji, Veronika and Andrea also contributed posters to the event which you can see below. These included presentations on “Pricing Protection: The value of health risk reductions in a warming world”, “Influencers of users’ attitudinal and behavioural patterns in urban shared travel environments”, “How zoo visitors perceive species’ conservation status”, “Agent-based modelling of pro-environmental choice: an attention and motivation approach”, Innovation to overcome barriers to biological protection”, “Links between climate change and criminality”, and “Measuring environmental policy uncertainty”.
