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Dr Katie J Parsons 🏳️‍🌈🌍🇪🇺

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Research Fellow Loughbourgh Uni Creative Partcipatory PAR methods with Children, Youth & Communities for Climate & Flood Adaptation, Environmental Education & Storytelling Mummy to 3 🥰 https://sites.google.com/view/dr-katie-j-parsons/home?authuser=0

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Dr Katie J Parsons 🏳️‍🌈🌍🇪🇺 @parsnipsparsons.bsky.social · Nov 22

Thrilled to be able to share our new paper wrote with Alison Lloyd Williams @floodskinner.games
On using 360 immersive storytelling to engage communities with flood risk
Our project worked with youth, teachers & the Environment Agency
#FloodEducation

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Using 360° immersive storytelling to engage communities with flood risk

Communities worldwide face escalating flood risks due to climate change, a fact that emphasises the critical role of flood preparedness in community flood resilience. Globally, flood risk is expected...

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Dr Katie J Parsons 🏳️‍🌈🌍🇪🇺 @parsnipsparsons.bsky.social · 22d

Our paper "Crumbling cliffs and intergenerational cohesivity" is out in #GeosceinceCommunication🥂

Working with young people in Withernsea, one of the world’s fastest eroding coastlines, we developed a participatory, creative model of climate praxis
gc.copernicus.org/articles/8/213…

Dr Katie J Parsons 🏳️‍🌈🌍🇪🇺 @parsnipsparsons.bsky.social · 28d

Not only do you get to participate in a fantastic citizen science project via the communiMap app but you also get the chance to win a beautiful painting by Libby Walker 😍

I mean what you waiting for ✨️👇

CommuniGALLANT @communigallant.bsky.social · 28d

Libby Walker painted Glasgow from the @uofglasgow.bsky.social flagpole yesterday!
What happens if every photo is a brushstroke, and together we paint Glasgow’s storybook? 📖🌍 That’s communiMap! We’re raffling Libby’s painting.
Add a “spot” between 9–22 Sept to be in with a chance of winning :-)

Dr Katie J Parsons 🏳️‍🌈🌍🇪🇺 @parsnipsparsons.bsky.social · Aug 27

We want to understand how people are engaging with freshwater spaces across the UK. The good, the bad or even the ugly.

You don't need to be a swimmer, you could just enjoy going to these spaces. Either way would be great to hear your thoughts 🥰

lovewindermere.co.uk/get-involved/

Get Involved – Love Windermere

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Dr Katie J Parsons 🏳️‍🌈🌍🇪🇺 @parsnipsparsons.bsky.social · Aug 3

Fantastic to see this paper in @thegj.bsky.social out by Mark Holton

Care-ful encounters: A case for empathetic youthful encounters with coastal environments 👏

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The Geographical Journal | RGS Research Journal | Wiley Online Library

This paper extends discourse on environmental stewardship and coastal management by examining the intersecting and overlapping relationships between notions of care and encounter in generating and ma....

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Dr Katie J Parsons 🏳️‍🌈🌍🇪🇺 @parsnipsparsons.bsky.social · Jul 31

From water puppetry performances to digital storybooks, this project shows how youth-led, arts-based methods can empower communities and influence policy.

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<em>British Educational Research Journal</em> | BERA Journal | Wiley Online Library

Climate change presents urgent global challenges that demand swift and transformative responses. However, current efforts often fall short, revealing a crisis not only of environmental concern but al...

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Dr Katie J Parsons 🏳️‍🌈🌍🇪🇺 @parsnipsparsons.bsky.social · Jul 31

Drawing on our participatory action research with youth in Northern Vietnam, we explore how creative storytelling, indigenous knowledge, and emotional engagement can bridge the gap between climate knowledge and meaningful action. 2/3

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Dr Katie J Parsons 🏳️‍🌈🌍🇪🇺 @parsnipsparsons.bsky.social · Jul 31

Thrilled to share our latest paper published in BERA journal.

From science to storytelling: Advancing a Climate Knowledge-Action Frame

In this paper we challenge the dominant "knowledge deficit" model in climate education & propose a more inclusive, action-oriented approach 1/3

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Dr Katie J Parsons 🏳️‍🌈🌍🇪🇺 @parsnipsparsons.bsky.social · Jul 26

🚨 New survey with partners Love Windermere as part of my British Academy funded project 🚨

We want to understand how people are engaging with freshwater spaces across the UK. The good, the bad or even the ugly.

lovewindermere.co.uk/get-involved/

#BAECRN #ECRNetwork #SeedFund

Dr Katie J Parsons 🏳️‍🌈🌍🇪🇺 @parsnipsparsons.bsky.social · Jul 21

Yes definitely. Hope all is well xx

Dr Katie J Parsons 🏳️‍🌈🌍🇪🇺 @parsnipsparsons.bsky.social · Jul 12

Thank you lovely 😘 hope all is well with you xx

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Dr Katie J Parsons 🏳️‍🌈🌍🇪🇺 @parsnipsparsons.bsky.social · Jul 12

Looking forward to working with my dream team of @joshwolstenholme.bsky.social Rachel Obrike and some other guy called @bedforms.bsky.social to make a difference to children lives in a changing climate ✨️

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Dr Katie J Parsons 🏳️‍🌈🌍🇪🇺 @parsnipsparsons.bsky.social · Jul 12

For a more diverse workforce we need 2 start exposure in early years providing a passport of opportunities. The beauty is its dual purpose by not only fostering a deeper understanding of the environment but promoting proenvironmental behaviors. Essential in building a sustainable & resilient society

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Dr Katie J Parsons 🏳️‍🌈🌍🇪🇺 @parsnipsparsons.bsky.social · Jul 12

Over the moon to finally announce our NERC: Natural Environment Research Council funded project Charnwood Champions 🥳

This project has been a dream of mine for many years after witnessing the inconsistancy and inequality of opportunities for children to access the natural environment

Prof Dan Parsons @bedforms.bsky.social · Jul 12

🌱 What if environmental science belonged to everyone?

We’re proud to launch Charnwood Champions: A Passport to Inclusive Environmental Science – a bold, place-based project reimagining environmental learning, opportunity, and leadership.

🔗 More here: www.lboro.ac.uk/subjects/geo...

New environmental education initiative tackles sector’s diversity crisis

A groundbreaking new initiative led by Loughborough University, and in collaboration with key civic partners, is set to transform environmental education and green careers access for young people acro...

www.lboro.ac.uk

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Dr Flo Halstead @flohalstead.bsky.social · Jun 23

Happy Monday! 🥳
Thrilled to share our new paper in Children’s Geographies:
“Place-based & intergenerational storytelling for youth climate action: Moving beyond participation and towards momentum” 🌍📚

Read it here: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/IHFXJ...

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Dr Katie J Parsons 🏳️‍🌈🌍🇪🇺 @parsnipsparsons.bsky.social · Jun 2

Did you visit Windermere as a child? Maybe you grew up by the lake or holidayed there?

In partnership with Love Windermere we're collecting childhood memories of Windermere for my @britishacademy.bsky.social
funded Guardians of the falls project lovewindermere.co.uk/get-involved/

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Dr Chris Skinner FRGS @geoskinner.games · May 14

New article on my blog - A bunch of new research.

My latest publications and highlights from my co-authors @joshwolstenholme.bsky.social and @parsnipsparsons.bsky.social

floodskinner.games/2025/05/14/a...

A bunch of new research

I have a whole bunch of new papers recently published to tell you about. I can’t take (all) the credit though as they have been led by amazing colleagues. Huge shout out especially to Josh Wo…

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Prof Dan Parsons @bedforms.bsky.social · May 2

Gatecrashed an EOS poster session at @egu.eu with @parsnipsparsons.bsky.social Flood Fortune Teller poster just now...lots of new connections on education and community climate risk.
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/session/…

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Dr Katie J Parsons 🏳️‍🌈🌍🇪🇺 @parsnipsparsons.bsky.social · May 2

Fantastic event for postgrads @lborouniversity.bsky.social

Storying Hope in an Age of Climate Anxiety 👇

With fun activities & interactive discussions with Michael Wilson, Julie Doyle & my good self 😎

I mean, what more could you ask for 💃 so come along on the 15th May
@storylboro.bsky.social

British Sociological Association @britsoci.bsky.social · May 2

A chance for an enriching day of interdisciplinary engagement – book now for ‘Storying Hope in an Age of Climate Anxiety’, a free BSA Postgraduate Forum event, 15 May, Loughborough University tinyurl.com/yc42e38d #sociology

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Dr Katie J Parsons 🏳️‍🌈🌍🇪🇺 @parsnipsparsons.bsky.social · May 1

Trust me...

Dr Katie J Parsons 🏳️‍🌈🌍🇪🇺 @parsnipsparsons.bsky.social · May 1

Thanks Greg... this is a case of ordering the steak and getting a packet of ham

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Prof Dan Parsons @bedforms.bsky.social · May 1

Come and make a Flood Resilience Fortune Teller at Poster @egu.eu #EGU25 X3.77 in the late afternoon session today! 😃 @parsnipsparsons.bsky.social 💦🌊💓

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Dr Katie J Parsons 🏳️‍🌈🌍🇪🇺 @parsnipsparsons.bsky.social · May 1

Unfortunately, I can't be in person @egu.eu today to present. But project team member @bedforms.bsky.social will be presenting in my place.

Join Dan at #EGU25 to find out more

🗓️Today 1st May
🕝14:00-18:00
📍Hall X3, X3.77

Feel free to get in contact with me or any of the team in Vienna

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Dr Katie J Parsons 🏳️‍🌈🌍🇪🇺 @parsnipsparsons.bsky.social · Apr 3

Calling Early Career Researchers 🚨
Get your voice heard in shaping the future landscape for a more inclusive, equitable & sustainable research culture
For every response C-DICE will donate to the Council for At-Risk Academics

Change only happens when you speak up 💪

www.cdice.ac.uk/news/precari...

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Dr Chris Skinner FRGS @geoskinner.games · Apr 2

April's Imagination Engines is out!

🧱Building blocks of Env Comms.
💡Inspiring Interactions with Ayo Sokale.
🗞️Research with @joshwolstenholme.bsky.social and @parsnipsparsons.bsky.social.
🎲Good Morning - a downward counterfactual micro-RPG.
📽️YouTube Updates.

floodskinner.games/2025/04/02/i...

Imagination Engines – April 2025

Welcome to the April edition of Imagination Engines. My month ahead is going to busy getting ready for the European Geoscience Union General Assembly – I am attending as part of my day job th…

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Dr Katie J Parsons 🏳️‍🌈🌍🇪🇺 @parsnipsparsons.bsky.social · Mar 27

Noticed I say thrilled a lot on my posts... so as a Mancunian I'm going to change the narrative to be 'proper chuffed' to be out the house & spending 30 mins outside listening to nature & feeling the cool air on my face before going in to a super duper work event 😎 #MoreSoon #FloodandCoast