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Susan Ann Samuel is attending this year's COP29 as part of the University of Leeds COP29 delegation Susan Ann Samuel will be attending COP28 to conduct research as part of her PhD project, which is closely aligned with Dr Viktoria Spaiser's UKRI FLF award.
Climate change is pushing the world towards a series of “tipping points” which will see rapid and irreversible change across the natural and social worlds, say a group of leading experts.
Dr Viktoria Spaiser and her PhD student Susan Ann Samuel are both attending this year's COP28 as part of the University of Leeds COP28 delegation. Dr Viktoria Spaiser will participate at COP28 mainly to promote the Global Tipping Points Report, to which she has contributed significantly and which will be launched on the 6th of...
Dr Viktoria Spaiser will present some of the work she has been doing as part of her UKRI FLF award at the Senedd’s Climate Change, Environment and Infrastructure (CCEI) Committee Areas of Research Interest (ARIs) event on the 30th of November 2023. She has been invited along with other researchers and experts to provide insights...
Dr Nicole Nisbett and Dr Viktoria Spaiser from POLIS have had their article – “How convincing are AI-generated moral arguments for climate action?” – published in the Frontiers in Climate journal on 6th July 2023. For more details and the link to read the open access article, please click here.
Dr Nicole Nisbett and Dr Viktoria Spaiser from POLIS have had their article – “Moral power of youth activists – Transforming international climate Politics?” – published in the Global Environmental Change journal on 06 July 2023. For more details and the link to read the open access article, please click here.
Dr Viktoria Spaiser and Dr Cristina Leston Bandeira have contributed to a report published by the House of Lords, Environment and Climate Change Committee. Dr Spaiser and Dr Leston Bandeira, who submitted written evidence for the committee’s inquiry, had their evidence cited twelve times in this report. Their recommendations are also to be found within the report. Please...
Positive social transformation can start with challenging the normalisation of thinking and practices that keep us trapped within the Climate Crisis. See the new paper in PLOS Climate: “How dare you?”—The normative challenge posed by Fridays For Future
POLIS Associate Professor, Dr Viktoria Spaiser, and Postdoctoral Fellow, Dr Nicole Nisbett, have recently appeared on Ilkley Literature Festival’s podcast, Settee Seminars. Dr Spaiser and Dr Nisbett speak about the significance of social dynamics in seeking solutions to the global climate crisis in their episode of Settee Seminars, “Stablising Earth’s Climate: Key Social Dynamics”. Theirs...
Centre for Democratic Engagement members Dr Viktoria Spaiser and Dr Nicole Nisbett are going to the COP26 in Glasgow as part of a University of Leeds team engaged in this year’s UNFCCC Climate Change Conference, 1-12 November 2021. They will be there in the context of the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship award granted to Dr...