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Psychology, communication and the arts
The arts can provide powerful ways to challenge, inform and engage people in conversations about global challenges. It’s also vital we understand people's underlying worldviews, psychology, values and behaviour as these play a key role in shaping their attitudes to climate change, energy transitions and disaster solutions.
Insights into these perspectives can inform how we communicate about these challenges and understand the variety of responses to them. Framing climate solutions in ways that engage with the worldviews of target audiences will help to foster community consensus and empowerment in collectively responding to climate change in socially just and sustainable ways.
Many of the researchers in this field are housed in the University's Research School of Psychology, School of Sociology, Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science (CPAS), the Fenner School of Environment and Society, and the College of Arts and Social Sciences. We also have a number of Visiting Fellows and Honorary members.
Leaders
Researchers
- Associate Professor Nick Abel
- Dr Katelyn Barnes
- Associate Professor Kathryn Bowen
- Dr Adam Broinowski
- Dr David Caldicott
- Professor Alison Calear
- Kevin Chadwick
- Professor Bruce Christensen
- Dr Matthew Colloff
- Associate Professor Bec Colvin
- Dr Steven Cork
- Dr Charlie Crimston
- Associate Professor Kim Cunio
- Ms Kathryn Dan
- Associate Professor Amy Dawel
- Dr Kimin Eom
- Ms Ashley Jameson Eriksmoen
- Ngaio Fitzpatrick
- Dr Richard W. Frank
- Dr Katrina Grant
- Dr Will Grant
- Dr Lisa-Marie Greenwood
- Dr Lainie Hart
- Dr Bernd Heubeck
- Associate Professor Geoff Hinchcliffe
- Dr Andrew Hughes
- Dr Alexander Hunter
- Associate Professor Gavin J.D. Smith
- Professor Fiona Jenkins
- Dr Aparna Lal
- Dr Rod Lamberts
- Professor Joan Leach
- Emeritus Professor Shirley Leitch
- Dr Emily Macleod
- Karina Martin
- Dr Kristin McGee
- Dr Eryn Newman
- Dr Ruth O'Connor
- Dr Dave Pasalich
- Professor Michael Platow
- Ewelina Przybyszewski
- Dr Simon Quilty
- Dr Anna Raupach
- Mr John Reid
- Julia Reynolds
- Emeritus Professor Libby Robin
- Dr Russell Smith
- Professor Michael Smithson
- Dr Firouzeh Taghikhah
- Professor Katerina Teaiwa
- Jamin Xiongzhi Wang
- Associate Professor Mitchell Whitelaw
- Mr Tom Worthington
- Dr Pia van Gelder
Students
- Katherine Aigner
- Rebecca Blackburn
- Sarah Boddington
- Rachel Bowman
- Intifar Chowdhury
- Allyson Crimp
- Md Omar Faruk
- Hannah Feldman
- Anne-Marie Jean
- Mary Jiang
- Ella McNiece
- Padma Newsome
- Tanya Wilkins
- Isabelle Zhu-Maguire
Professional staff
2022
‘It is a bloody big and responsible job’: perspectives on climate change communication from Australia-focused practitioners, Nicholas Badullovich, Climate Action.
The role of human influences on adoption and rejection of energy technology: A systematised critical review of the literature on household energy transitions, Kevin Chadwick, Rebekah Russell-Bennett, Nicholas Biddle, Energy Research & Social Science.
From influencing to engagement: a framing model for climate communication in polarised settings, Nicholas Badullovich, Environmental Politics.
Engaging with the future: framings of adaptation to climate change in conservation, Claudia Munera-Roldan, Matthew J Colloff, Bruno Locatelli, Carina Wyborn, Ecosystems and People.
