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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

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Dr Franca Angela Buelow
Postdoc
Leuphana University

Framing agricultural change in New Zealand: media and policy discourses on transitions

8:00 PM - 8:15 PM

Abstract

Biography

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.
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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 PM

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Mr Vishvak Kannan
Senior Program Associate
World Resources Institute

Centering community needs in the race to resilience

8:15 PM - 8:30 PM

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Biography

Vishvak focuses on integrating climate adaptation planning, securing adaptation finance, and implementing programs that enhance community resilience.
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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 PM

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Biography

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 PM

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Biography

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.
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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 PM

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Biography

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.
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