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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

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

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.
Mr Vishvak Kannan
Senior Program Associate
World Resources Institute India

Centering community needs in the race to resilience

8:15 PM - 8:30 PM

Biography

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

Biography

Akunna Penny is a seasoned researcher with over 10 years of experience in international development research including climate resilience, health and governance. Her educational background is in media and communications and public policy. She is a Research Manager with BBC Media Action. 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

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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