The Arts of Adaptation, Communication and Education Online
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The Arts of Adaptation, Communication and Education
| Monday, October 13, 2025 |
| 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM |
Speaker
Ms Melissa Boo
PhD Candidate
University of Canterbury
Online Facilitator
Biography
Dr Franca Angela Buelow
Postdoc
Leuphana University
Framing agricultural change in New Zealand: media and policy discourses on transitions
8:00 PM - 8:15 PMBiography
Dr. Franca Buelow is a Postdoc and coordinator of an interdisciplinary project on sustainability governance of global value chains. She uses linguistic methods, experiments, data analyses and participatiory methods to study climate adaptation and diversity at individual and aggregate levels.
Zoe Greer, a Psychology PhD student at Victoria University of Wellington, is a Research Associate in Psychometrics at GESIS. She combines survey methodology, NLP, and qualitative analysis to study construct validity and scientific and public discourses.
Ms Zoe Greer
PhD Student
Victoria University of Wellington
Framing agricultural change in New Zealand: media and policy discourses on transitions
8:00 PM - 8:15 PMBiography
Mr Vishvak Kannan
Senior Program Associate
World Resources Institute
Ms Manju Gautam
Research Manager
BBC Media Action
Enhancing Climate Communication: Addressing Misinformation, Building Trust, and Strengthening Weather and Climate Information Services (WCIS) for Resilient Communities
8:30 PM - 8:45 PMBiography
Manju Gautam is a development practitioner, with over eight years of experience in project implementation and research in various areas including gender-based violence, governance, health, and weather and climate information services. Her education background is in public health and nursing. She currently works as Research Manager for BBC Media Action.
Miss Sarah Taylor
Senior Specialist Climate Change Adaptation
Natural England
Natural England's art-science collaboration - Inspiring collective action on the climate and nature crisis
8:45 PM - 9:00 PMBiography
Sarah's work places nature at the centre of climate action. Using a wide range of evidence, working with many partners, she explores how information and evidence, and creative and storying approaches can help engage on the nature and climate emergency and how this interacts with inclusivity, equity and environmental justice.
Dr Keira Lowther
Senior Program Manager
Centre for Public Impact
What does the practice of social imagination offer communities and governments as a tool for new thinking, narratives and solutions for adaptation in the climate emergency?
9:00 PM - 9:45 PMBiography
Keira is an experienced facilitator and coach, with a background in evaluation and public health. She has worked at the Centre for Public Impact for the past 3 years, and leads the social imagination for climate adaptation work in Melbourne, Australia.