Applications Invited for Climate Policy Creative Fellowship

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About the Organization

Founded in 1826 in the heart of London, UCL is London's leading multidisciplinary university. We are a diverse community with the freedom and courage to challenge, to question and to think differently. Through a progressive approach to teaching and research, our world leading academics, curious students and outstanding staff continually pursue excellence, break boundaries and make an impact on real world problems.

The UCL Climate Action Unit works to change how scientists, policymakers, businesses, media, civil society organisations and citizens engage with each other about climate change.

The Climate Action Unit (CAU) is a group of experts in neuroscience, psychology, science communication and facilitation. The aim of the CAU's work is to accelerate the uptake of climate action and the transition to net-zero across society.

About the Fellowship

The Climate Policy Creative Fellowship is an experimental programme supporting storytellers to develop skills to help policymakers. This interdisciplinary collaboration will explore how more compelling narratives could enable policymakers to take better decisions on climate change and communicate them to the public.

Policy to tackle climate change is not keeping up with the risks posed by climate change. There are lots of reasons for this but one of them is that climate risk information produced by scientists could be communicated in a way that is more helpful for decision-makers in the policy community. 

This programme responds to the need for science, arts and policy communities to collaborate on dynamic strategies for decision-making in response to climate risk. Through this Fellowship, participants will develop the skills, knowledge and practice to help policy audiences engage with climate risk information in ways that could improve their decisions.

This Fellowship is for experienced creative storytellers who are keen to use their skills to enable policy action on climate change.

Who is this for:

• Creative storytellers e.g., working in theatre, poetry, prose, film, television, podcasts, games, creative agencies, social purpose campaigning organisations. Your work is English language based and could be factual or fictional. You might call yourself a writer or a director or a designer or something else.
• People with ‘experience and a developed sense of their own practice’. What does this mean? If you’ve just graduated or started making work, this probably isn’t for you. You’ve probably been working in your field for 5-10 years and done a decent handful of projects. You’re not panicked by the idea of coming up with ideas and collaborating interdisciplinarily.
• People who are interested in exploring what it means to use their skills in an instrumental way, to help policy-makers. We get that it can be annoying when artists and creative people are expected to use their skills to fix all the problems of the world. If you’ve had enough of that, this Fellowship is probably not for you. If you’re excited by the idea of finding creative ways to engage audiences with complex subjects in a less purely artistic sense, read on.
• People with an interest in working in the climate space - but you don’t need previous experience of projects related to this.
• People who can travel to in-person sessions in London.

How to Apply

Applications close for expression of interest: Weds 28 August 2024, 17.00 (UTC)

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