Professor Saffron O’Neill

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.


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We are a group of former news journalists, managers, communications specialists and academics, united by a desire to support and promote excellence in public service climate journalism on the UK’s main TV, radio and online news bulletins.

Dr Sylvia Hayes

Dr Sylvia Hayes

Research Fellow

Dr Sarwat Qureshi

Dr Sarwat Qureshi

Research Fellow

Mark Smalley

Mark Smalley

Co-Founder

Claire Stocks

Claire Stocks

Co-Founder

Alan Strange

Alan Strange

Managing Editor

David Weiland

David Weiland

Co-Founder

Phoebe Wollocombe

Phoebe Wollocombe

Co-Founder

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