The IHSS Climate Emergency Working Group (CEWG) began its work in January 2022 and completed its activity in December 2023. The purpose of this latest Faculty working group was to examine the climate emergency from a distinctively Faculty of the Humanities and Social Sciences perspective. Through a varied programme of work the group considered how the climate emergency was framed and understood, communicated, and reacted to. It considered, in particular, the interplay of scientific and social-cultural knowledge and the perspective of a citizens point of view upon the emergency. The group comprised experts drawn from across the Faculty of the Humanities and Social Sciences at Queen Mary.
Dr Tibisay Morgandi (The Centre for Commercial Law Studies) (Chair)
Dr Andrew Russell (School of Geography)
Dr Caterina Gennaioli (School of Business and Management)
Dr Alex Henshaw (School of Geography)
Prof Paul Heritage (People's Palace Projects)
CEWG launched the podcast series Climate Game Changers at the conference and podcast launch "Lost in Transition - Current Challenges of the Energy Transition" on 4 December 2023. The goal of the podcasts is to enable the CEWG, the IHSS, and the HSS Faculty to become part of a broader conversation on the climate emergency with stakeholders including NGOs and local communities.
Dr Tibisay Morgandi, Chair of the Climate Emergency Working Group, contributes a report on energy for the Ukraine Peace Settlement Project. For more details, please read the news story.
Event Summary: Communicating the Climate Emergency: From Knowledge to Action [DOC 31KB]
Conference and podcast series Climate Game Changers launch "Lost in Transition - Current Challenges of the Energy Transition" on 4 December 2023.
Communication the Climate Emergency: From Knowledge to Action 20 October 2022, 3-7 pm was arranged in collaboration with the Centre for Globalisation Research (School of Business and Management at Queen Mary University of London).
Please watch the speaker presentations and Q&A recordings. The images can be viewed at the Media Gallery.
In collaboration with the Centre for Climate Crime and Climate Justice (School of Law)
Panel Event "Rethinking Ecocide" June 21, 2022, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM the recording
"The Politics of Ecocide Law" 7 June 2022 recording
In collaboration with People Palace Projects
Culture and the Climate Crisis: a new accord Q&A with Marcus Faustini, Municipal Secretary of Culture, Rio de Janeiro, 10 March 2022, 4:00-6:00 PM