Professor Saffron O’Neill

Saffron O’Neill is Professor in Climate and Society in the Geography Department at the University of Exeter, UK.

Her research explores the social science dimensions of climate variability and change, particularly focusing on communication and public engagement. Her research specialism is the visual communication of climate change. From 2021-2023, she held a Leverhulme Research Fellowship on this topic titled ‘The Visual Life of Climate Change’.

Saffron is also a Co-Director of ACCESS (Advancing Capacity for Climate and Environment Social Science, 2021-2026) funded by the ESRC, and Co-Director of the Centre for Climate Communication and Data Science (C3DS) 2023-2025. She is co-Director of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion for Geography at the University of Exeter.