My name is Christopher Shaw. I am a Senior Researcher with Climate Outreach. The stuff on this site is my own personal reflections on how climate change is constructed and responded to.
I live on the south coast of England. I have a long standing concern about climate change, going back to the early 1990's. I had been looking for a way to engage and influence the debate which made sense to me for many years. In 2005, at the age of 40, the opportunity came to do an MSc in Social Research Methods at Sussex University, looking after our two young boys while my wife returned to work on a full-time basis. I stayed on after completing the Masters and was awarded a Doctorate in January 2012.
At the bottom of this page is a PDF of my thesis. I outline below some of the work have been doing since my return to academia.
Publications
What Matters Most? Evidence from 84 Participatory Studies with Those Living with Extreme Poverty and Marginalisation. Institute of Development Studies. http://www.participate2015.org/resources/what-matters-most-evidence-from-84-participatory-studies-with-those-living-with-extreme-poverty-and-marginalisation/
Choosing a dangerous limit for climate change: Public representations of the decision making process. Global Environmental Change. In Press
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2012.12.012
The dangerous limits of dangerous limits: climate change and the precautionary principle (2010). In Nature, Society and Environmental Crisis, Eds. Carter, B and Charles, N. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
Dangerous limits: Climate change and modernity (2010).In History at the end of the world?, Eds. Levene, M, Johnson, R and Roberts, P. Penrith: HEB Publishing.
Conference papers
· ‘When 2 becomes 3; defining safe limits in the climate change debate', given at An End to History? Climate Change, the Past and Future. Birmingham and Midlands Institute, April 2008
· 'The management of risk: climate change and dangerous limits', given at Society and Nature, British Sociological Association. Warwick University, June 2008.
· 'The dangerous limits of dangerous limits', given at Climate change impacts and adaptation: Dangerous rates of change. University of Exeter, September 2008.
· ‘One degree, two degrees, three degrees or four: Modernity and the dangerous limits discourse’, given at The Royal Geographical Society. London, September 2010.
Outreach activities
· Hopeful futures – optimism in an age of climate change, Brighton Fringe Festival, May 2009. Organised and chaired this sold out event aimed at a non-academic audience.
· Climate change – who cares? Brighton Dome, November, 2011. Presenter and panel member for public debate.
· BSA Climate Change Study Group book launch, British Library, January 2012. Organised and hosted sold out event, featuring Mike Hulme, Gordon Walker and John Urry.
· Convenor for the Sociology and Climate Change stream at British Sociological Association’s 2013 conference.
Qualifications
· DPhil – Choosing a Dangerous Limit for Climate Change; How the Decision Making Process is Constructed in Public Discourses. Awarded: 29th November, 2011. University of Sussex.
Supervisors: Professor Luke Martell, Dr Ruth Woodfield. Examiners: Professor Brian Wynne, Dr David Ockwell.
· MSc – Social Research Methods. Merit. Awarded: September 2006, University of Sussex. Modules studied: Philosophy of Science and Social Scientific Research Practice; Research design in the Social Sciences; Social Statistics; Discourse Analysis; Comparative Sociology; Qualitative data collection: The in-depth interview, from talk to text; Questionnaire design, interviewing and coding; Action Research. Participatory Research. Dissertation: Everyday heroes? The role of the consumer in the transition to a low-carbon society.
· Geography, BSc (Hons). 2.1. Awarded August 1993, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge. Awarded Angela Taylor Memorial prize for dissertation: Locality and Aspiration.
· Associate of the Higher Education Academy. Awarded June 2007, University of Sussex.
Geography PGCE. Awarded July 1998, University of Sussex
I live on the south coast of England. I have a long standing concern about climate change, going back to the early 1990's. I had been looking for a way to engage and influence the debate which made sense to me for many years. In 2005, at the age of 40, the opportunity came to do an MSc in Social Research Methods at Sussex University, looking after our two young boys while my wife returned to work on a full-time basis. I stayed on after completing the Masters and was awarded a Doctorate in January 2012.
At the bottom of this page is a PDF of my thesis. I outline below some of the work have been doing since my return to academia.
Publications
What Matters Most? Evidence from 84 Participatory Studies with Those Living with Extreme Poverty and Marginalisation. Institute of Development Studies. http://www.participate2015.org/resources/what-matters-most-evidence-from-84-participatory-studies-with-those-living-with-extreme-poverty-and-marginalisation/
Choosing a dangerous limit for climate change: Public representations of the decision making process. Global Environmental Change. In Press
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2012.12.012
The dangerous limits of dangerous limits: climate change and the precautionary principle (2010). In Nature, Society and Environmental Crisis, Eds. Carter, B and Charles, N. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
Dangerous limits: Climate change and modernity (2010).In History at the end of the world?, Eds. Levene, M, Johnson, R and Roberts, P. Penrith: HEB Publishing.
Conference papers
· ‘When 2 becomes 3; defining safe limits in the climate change debate', given at An End to History? Climate Change, the Past and Future. Birmingham and Midlands Institute, April 2008
· 'The management of risk: climate change and dangerous limits', given at Society and Nature, British Sociological Association. Warwick University, June 2008.
· 'The dangerous limits of dangerous limits', given at Climate change impacts and adaptation: Dangerous rates of change. University of Exeter, September 2008.
· ‘One degree, two degrees, three degrees or four: Modernity and the dangerous limits discourse’, given at The Royal Geographical Society. London, September 2010.
Outreach activities
· Hopeful futures – optimism in an age of climate change, Brighton Fringe Festival, May 2009. Organised and chaired this sold out event aimed at a non-academic audience.
· Climate change – who cares? Brighton Dome, November, 2011. Presenter and panel member for public debate.
· BSA Climate Change Study Group book launch, British Library, January 2012. Organised and hosted sold out event, featuring Mike Hulme, Gordon Walker and John Urry.
· Convenor for the Sociology and Climate Change stream at British Sociological Association’s 2013 conference.
Qualifications
· DPhil – Choosing a Dangerous Limit for Climate Change; How the Decision Making Process is Constructed in Public Discourses. Awarded: 29th November, 2011. University of Sussex.
Supervisors: Professor Luke Martell, Dr Ruth Woodfield. Examiners: Professor Brian Wynne, Dr David Ockwell.
· MSc – Social Research Methods. Merit. Awarded: September 2006, University of Sussex. Modules studied: Philosophy of Science and Social Scientific Research Practice; Research design in the Social Sciences; Social Statistics; Discourse Analysis; Comparative Sociology; Qualitative data collection: The in-depth interview, from talk to text; Questionnaire design, interviewing and coding; Action Research. Participatory Research. Dissertation: Everyday heroes? The role of the consumer in the transition to a low-carbon society.
· Geography, BSc (Hons). 2.1. Awarded August 1993, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge. Awarded Angela Taylor Memorial prize for dissertation: Locality and Aspiration.
· Associate of the Higher Education Academy. Awarded June 2007, University of Sussex.
Geography PGCE. Awarded July 1998, University of Sussex
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