Improving our understanding of how human-nature connection develops in the first formative years of a child’s life, could be a critical step towards ensuring our next generation is prepared to face our current and future environmental challenges. This is an argument I have made in previous blogposts (🔗) and in publications currently under review (which I look forward to... Continue Reading →
I recently had the opportunity to travel to Univerzita Komenského (Comenius University) in Bratislava, Slovakia to take part in the 33rd conference for the European Early Childhood Education and Research Association (EECERA). For some followers of this blog, this might seem like a slight deviation from the issues and fields we normally explore in our Human Dimensions Department. However,... Continue Reading →
Thanks to the wonderful work of and support from the Transformers COST Action (🔗), I recently had the opportunity to participate in two consecutive events, both focused on transformative change for sustainability. Both allowed me to broaden my experience, my views, the community with which I interact and work, and finally to broaden the way I... Continue Reading →
A lot of the work in our department dives into the realms of behavioural psychology theories, in designing interventions which could lead to positive behavioural changes (for example PLUSchange) to benefit and protect our natural world. For example, some of our research asks the question, which interventions are most effective in bringing about pro-environmental behavioural... Continue Reading →
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