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Professor Julie Doyle - communicating climate change

Climate change is one of the most pressing issues of our time, yet it remains a remote and future-oriented issue for many people in western countries. Professor Julie Doyle’s research addresses this problem by focusing upon the role of media, communication, and culture in shaping societal responses to climate change. In showing how perceptions of climate change are informed by culture and communication, she works collaboratively with visual artists, cultural educators and NGOs to seek new and creative ways of communicating and engaging people with climate change.

 

Julie Doyle

Professor Julie Doyle

Climate change requires us to work together, within and outside academia, to find ways of bringing this issue more immediately into people’s everyday lives and cultural practices. Through collaboration with NGOs, artists, educators, policy makers and business, we can learn from each other, and help to give voices to those marginalised from mainstream representations of climate change, particularly young people.

Professor Julie Doyle

A leading scholar on climate communication, Julie’s book, Mediating Climate Change, was the first scholarly monograph to examine climate change from a visual culture and communication perspective. She argued that we need to break down human-nature distinctions, and make climate change culturally meaningful through media, popular culture and the arts. She has carved a distinctive interdisciplinary research profile in the field of climate communication and her research on visual climate communication is cited as foundational to the field. Julie has also provided consultancy for environmental NGOs, government, and the sustainability communications sector on best practice for climate and environmental communication.

Julie is particularly interested in how creative methods can be used to facilitate young people’s engagement with climate change, and to create opportunities for youth voices to be heard.

She is currently collaborating with cultural and arts educators to explore teenagers’ and young adults’ experiences of climate change, and utilising participatory methods to facilitate co-created and youth-generated climate communications.

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Julie Doyle’s presentation at Greenpeace UK initiated an internal discussion about how we can best talk about climate change and what images we use when we do so. That discussion is still going on now and people continue to refer to Julie’s ideas when we’re debating these issues. Julie’s evidence-based but accessible style of presenting her ideas also really helped me [as Programme Director, Greenpeace Australia] to democratise the discussion that we were having in Greenpeace Australia, whereas previously ‘ownership’ of our communications was the preserve of the self-appointed few.

Emma Gibson, Deputy Programme Director for Greenpeace UK (formerly Greenpeace Australia)

Inspiring others

Julie has played a key role in the international professionalisation of environmental communication as an academic field, and was a member of the founding Board of Directors of the International Environmental Communication Association (IECA). She is Director of the Centre for Spatial, Environmental and Cultural Politics – an interdisciplinary centre that provides new knowledge and practice for the creation of more sustainable and socially just societies – and Associate Editor of Environmental Humanities (Duke University Press). She is passionate about working together in ways that are creative, caring and challenging to enable the move towards more climate resilient societies.

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