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Climate communication in practice: how are we engaging the UK public on climate change? (2018)
Report
McLoughlin, N., Corner, A., Capstick, S., Richardson, H., Bell, A., Muller, C., & Illingworth, S. (2018). Climate communication in practice: how are we engaging the UK public on climate change?. NERC

What should the aim of engagement on climate change be? What principles should underpin the way it is carried out? What do climate communication practitioners agree on and disagree on? This report acts as a barometer for the current state of UK cl... Read More about Climate communication in practice: how are we engaging the UK public on climate change?.

Representing the majority and not the minority: the importance of the individual in communicating climate change (2018)
Journal Article
Illingworth, S., Bell, A., Capstick, S., Corner, A., Forster, P., Leigh, R., …Shuckburgh, E. (2018). Representing the majority and not the minority: the importance of the individual in communicating climate change. Geoscience Communication, 1(1), 9-24. https://doi.org/10.5194/gc-1-9-2018

This research presents three case studies, through which a creative approach to developing dialogue around climate change is outlined. By working with three distinct communities and encouraging them to discuss and write poetry about how climate chang... Read More about Representing the majority and not the minority: the importance of the individual in communicating climate change.

Unhappy families: using tabletop games as a technology to understand play in education (2018)
Journal Article
Lean, J., Illingworth, S., & Wake, P. (2018). Unhappy families: using tabletop games as a technology to understand play in education. Research in Learning Technology, 26, https://doi.org/10.25304/rlt.v26.2027

In this article, we argue that tabletop games provide a helpful means of rethinking the affordances of digital games in pedagogy. We argue that tabletop games offer a distinctive technology from digital games in exploring the idea of play as experien... Read More about Unhappy families: using tabletop games as a technology to understand play in education.

Give me five! – reasons for two-way communication between experts and citizens in relation to air pollution risk (2018)
Journal Article
Loroño-Leturiondo, M., O'Hare, P., Cook, S., Hoon, S. R., & Illingworth, S. (2018). Give me five! – reasons for two-way communication between experts and citizens in relation to air pollution risk. Advances in Science and Research, 15, 45-50. https://doi.org/10.5194/asr-15-45-2018

Air pollution is a major environmental concern for many populations worldwide. Communication efforts so far have been based on a one-way provision of evidence and information from experts to society, and have arguably failed in their mission to foste... Read More about Give me five! – reasons for two-way communication between experts and citizens in relation to air pollution risk.

Rhyme and reason-using poetry to talk to underserved audiences about environmental change (2018)
Journal Article
Illingworth, S., & Jack, K. (2018). Rhyme and reason-using poetry to talk to underserved audiences about environmental change. Climate Risk Management, 19, 120-129. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crm.2018.01.001

The effects and consequences that environmental change will have on our society are not solely dependent on the ways in which the Earth system responds to anthropogenic effects. They are also affected by the way in which our society decides to mitiga... Read More about Rhyme and reason-using poetry to talk to underserved audiences about environmental change.

The development and trial of an unmanned aerial system for the measurement of methane flux from landfill and greenhouse gas emission hotspots (2018)
Journal Article
Allen, G., Hollingsworth, P., Kabbabe, K., Pitt, J. R., Mead, M. I., Illingworth, S., …Percival, C. J. (2019). The development and trial of an unmanned aerial system for the measurement of methane flux from landfill and greenhouse gas emission hotspots. Waste Management, 87, 883-892. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasman.2017.12.024

This paper describes the development of a new sampling and measurement method to infer methane flux using proxy measurements of CO2 concentration and wind data recorded by Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS). The flux method described and trialed here is a... Read More about The development and trial of an unmanned aerial system for the measurement of methane flux from landfill and greenhouse gas emission hotspots.