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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: […]

Travis G. Coan is an Associate Professor in Computational Social Science at the University of Exeter. He is co-director of the university’s Centre for Climate Communication and Data Science (C3DS), the Exeter Q-Step Centre and a member of the Centre for Elections, Media, and Participation (CEMaP). While Dr. Coan has published on a wide-range of […]

The Rt. Hon John Gummer, Lord Deben, was the Chairman of the UK’s Independent Climate Change Committee for 11 years until 2023. He is the founder and Chairman of Sancroft International, a consultancy that advises both businesses and investors on all areas of Sustainability and ESG. Lord Deben was also the UK’s longest serving Secretary […]

Mary Hockaday is Master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge and a former BBC News executive.  She was Acting Director of BBC World Service and Controller, BBC World Service English until 2021, responsible for the BBC World Service’s international radio and digital services. From 2009–2014 she was Head of the BBC Newsroom, overseeing the BBC’s core news […]

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 […]

John Ryley, OBE, was the Editor-in-Chief of Sky News from 2006 to 2023. He was a BBC graduate trainee rising to programme editor of ITV’s News at Ten, before joining Sky News in 1997. In 2021, The Royal Television Society gave him the Outstanding Contribution award for journalism. The judges said ‘he has effected genuine […]

Chris Shaw was Editorial Director of ITN, responsible for creative and editorial oversight of all news and programme content from ITV News, Channel 4 News, 5 News and ITN Productions, from 2019-2023. During his 44 year career, Chris worked as a journalist, editor, producer and commissioner for IRN, ITV News, Channel 5, Channel 4 and […]

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.