CLIMATE POLICY CREATIVE FELLOWSHIP
Policy to tackle climate change is not keeping up with the risks posed. There are many reasons for this but a key one is that climate risk information produced by scientists is often not communicated in a way that is helpful for decision-makers in the policy community.
This project aims to bridge that gap. The fellowship will bring together science, arts and policy practitioners to co-create new ways of enabling decisions in response to the risks of climate change.
These stories encourage policy audiences to imagine how they can prevent derailment risks from happening, and how they can help transitions to stay the course even as the crises get worse.
The Climate Policy Creative Fellowship is hosted by the Strategic Climate Risks Initiative (SCRI) and co-run by the UCL Climate Action Unit and digital story studio Fast Familiar. The 2024 Cohort are listed Below
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Meet the 2024 Fellows
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Imogen Dall
Imogen is a creative director with twelve years' experience crafting campaigns for diverse brands and causes from blue chip tech brands to grassroots movements. She has also directed festival-screened shorts, a nature documentary and a live comedy cabaret, and is the author of Burnout Survival Kit.
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Lara Ferris
Lara is a Strategy Director working with brands, businesses and trade bodies to shape cultural strategy and narrative to engage audiences. Most recently, Lara has balanced a role at Spring Studios with a Strategic Marketing MSc at Imperial Business School where she researched sustainability as a driver of innovation, resilience and competitive advantage.
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Holly Greenland
Holly has twenty years’ experience in communications and engagement. She has developed arts and history campaigns for the BBC, democratic engagement programmes at UK Parliament, and consulted for charities & public bodies through Social & Local CIC. Holly is an author and recently completed her PhD in publishing.
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Alex Lockwood
Alex is a writer of fiction and nonfiction books on climate change, environmental challenges and animals. He is a former academic, a co-founder of Animal Rebellion and other grassroots plant-based organisations, and a founding member of Hard Art. He works in narrative strategy for Absurd Intelligence.
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Marion Osieyo
Marion is an environmental leader and storyteller. Her work focuses on the social dimensions of nature regeneration and how to foster intersectional solutions for the environment. She has previously worked with the WWF and UNHCR Innovation Service. She is also a Board Member of Global Greengrants Fund and launched the award-winning Black Earth Podcast.
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Ruby Pugh
Ruby is a Designer, Maker, Facilitator & Activist working across theatre, film, festivals, street art & protests. She is a visual dramaturg who believes in using the power of storytelling to breed empathy, amplify systematically excluded voices & engage communities. Recent design credits include; The Little Mermaid (Bristol Old Vic)
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Jessica Riches
Jess is a writer and climate campaigner, and co-founder of Messy Filmmaking Collective. She has two original features and an adaptation in development. She has made two shorts and a podcast series starring Stephen Fry, and participated in film & TV labs with BFI, ZFF, Cinestory and Climate Spring.
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Michelle Sanders
Michelle is a documentary filmmaker whose work focuses on peoples’ relationships to the planet. She has worked on subjects including the threats of deep-sea mining, the trade in tortoises and tigers, the accelerating loss of arctic sea ice, and stopping development of oil fields in the North Sea.
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