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Sylvia Hayes is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Climate Communication and Data Science (C3DS) at the University of Exeter. Her research explores climate change communication, social media, visual imagery, photography/photojournalism, and digital media, using qualitative social science methodologies. In 2024, Sylvia was awarded a PhD from the University of Exeter titled “Strikingly Visual: […]

Sarwat Qureshi is a Research Fellow at the University of Exeter’s Centre for Climate Communication and Data Science (C3DS). Her research focuses on climate change communication, natural language processing, mental health, machine learning, and large language models (LMMs) for narrative detection. She uses quantitative and qualitative social science methodologies. Sarwat received her PhD from the […]

A freelance audio producer, Mark Smalley’s career in making features and documentaries for BBC Radio 4 spans current affairs, history, drama and environmental output. He began as a news reporter/producer for BBC GLR in London in 1992, was part of the launch team for BBC Radio 5 Live in 1994 and went on to work […]

Claire Stocks is a former BBC executive who led a variety of editorial teams and projects across a number of departments in an 18-year career there. She was Olympic Sports Editor for the London 2012 Olympics, Development Editor at BBC Sport, and Head of Interactive at BBC Children’s, before leaving the BBC in 2018.

Alan Strange is an award-winning journalist with more than two decades in the newsroom leading TV and Digital news teams.  He started out at an independent production company in Belfast before joining Sky News in 2002, first as a producer covering global stories including conflicts and natural disasters, then as programme editor across Sky’s live and rolling television output.  […]

Until September 2021, David was CEO of BBC Global News Ltd, managing the BBC World News channel, website and news app internationally. Previously David was Executive Vice President of the BBC’s commercial businesses in Asia and Western Europe for BBC Studios Ltd. Prior to that he programmed and ran the BBC’s international channels business. He […]

Phoebe spent 20 years working in PR and corporate communications. After a period in PR agencies with clients such as The Royal Mail, Nuclear Electric and the NSPCC, she managed communications for the International Diabetes Federation, based in Brussels, before joining the corporate communications department for the Seagram Spirits & Wine Group – a Canadian […]