In light of the storylistening article in Science, Sarah joined Bob McDonald on Canada’s CBC radio science programme ‘Quirks and Quarks’ to discuss how rigorous analysis of narratives can complement scientific data in informing public policy for global issues like climate change and space exploration.
Tag: climate change
In this perspective for WIREs Climate Change, Sarah and Claire expand on the climate change case study in the book, demonstrating how the arguments in Storylistening connect with the most cutting edge interdisciplinary work on climate change.
In October 2022, Sarah and Rachel Fisher (Deputy Director for Land Use Policy at Defra) joined a cross-disciplinary group of academics as part of a Cambridge Zero Policy Forum roundtable discussion on narratives and their links with climate change policy. This blog summarises the highlights of the discussion.
In April, Sarah presented material on decolonising the future, climate change, and N. K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth trilogy from Chapter 4 of Storylistening at an academic conference: the annual meeting of the British Society for Literature and Science. Her talk was part of a panel on Literature, Science and Policy, with presentations also given by Professor Genevieve Liveley, on narratology and cyber security policy, and by Lt Col David Calder, on science fiction’s critical utility in a military context. You can listen to the presentation here:
Sarah contributed to an episode of the first series of the University of Cambridge’s podcast – Mind Over Chatter – to explore how stories relate to climate change. She was in conversation with Richard Staley (Reader in the History and Philosophy of Science department and co-lead on the Making Climate History project) and Lord Martin Rees (cosmologist, astrophysicist, and Astronomer Royal).
The episode was produced by Nick Saffell, James Dolan, and Naomi Clements-Brod.