Booking is now open for the BSA Climate Change Study聽Group seminar on 鈥淢ethodological and conceptual approaches for researching climate change at different societal scales鈥� on the 30th/31st of March 2012.
The seminar aims to reflect upon the methodological and/or conceptual challenges that sociological research on climate change at different societal scales poses (e.g. household, local, regional or national), and the ways in which researchers have innovated methodological tools and/or conceptual approaches to address these challenges.
The morning session includes presentations from invited speakers including:
鈥� Professor John Urry, University of Lancaster
鈥� Dr Pauline Leonard, University of Southampton
鈥� Professor Patrick Devine-Wright, University of Exeter
鈥� Professor Elizabeth Shove, University of Lancaster
鈥� Dr Heather Lovell, University of Edinburgh
The afternoon session consists of a series of 6 workshops on the themes of:
鈥� Conceptualising climate change
鈥� Media, communications and mixed methods
鈥� Methodological approaches
鈥� Climate change at individual and household scales
鈥� Researching the multi-level and local dimensions of climatechange
鈥� Practices and policies in international perspective
To find out more information, please refer to the attached agenda and to book a place, please visit聽