Jenna Burns

Modern Foreign Languages BA student

Bangor University

Participates in 2 items

Sessions in which Jenna Burns participates

Friday 28 May, 2021

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

4:00 PM

Poster by Jenna Burns: "An academic literature review on the negative impact that societal factors and cognition have on climate change perception"

1 hour, 4:00 PM EDT - 5:00 PM EDT

Part of: Poster Session I (in GatherTown)

Jenna Burns, Bangor University (Presenter)

Wednesday 2 June, 2021

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

3:45 PM

Poster by Jenna Burns: "An academic literature review on the negative impact that societal factors and cognition have on climate change perception"

1 hour, 3:45 PM EDT - 4:45 PM EDT

Part of: Poster Session II (in GatherTown)

Jenna Burns, Bangor University (Presenter)

Sessions in which Jenna Burns attends

Monday 24 May, 2021

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

11:00 AM

Naomi Oreskes : Can Science Be Saved?: Moving Beyond Climate Denial

1 hour 15 minutes, 11:00 AM EDT - 12:15 PM EDT

Keynote

Naomi Oreskes, Harvard University (Keynote speaker)

During the Covid-19 pandemic, public debates about the validity of scientific findings and the value of science have intensified, as some Americans...

12:45 PM

Paul Thagard: History of Cognitive Science and Its Relevance to Climate Change

1 hour 15 minutes, 12:45 PM EDT - 2:00 PM EDT

Talk

Paul Thagard, University of Waterloo (Speaker)

Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary study of mind, embracing psychology, computer modeling, neuroscience, linguistics, anthropology, and phi...

2:05 PM

Eric Winsberg: Climate Science and Uncertainty

1 hour 15 minutes, 2:05 PM EDT - 3:20 PM EDT

Talk

Eric Winsberg, University of South Florida (Speaker)

Over the last several years, there has been an explosion of interest and attention devoted to the problem of Uncertainty Quantification (UQ) in cli...

3:20 PM

Greetings in Gather.Town

1 hour, 3:20 PM EDT - 4:20 PM EDT

Social

Tuesday 25 May, 2021

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

12:35 PM

Jean-Pierre Blanchet and Patrick Grenier: Observations and Representation of Climate Processes: From Understanding to Evaluation for Climate Services

1 hour 15 minutes, 12:35 PM EDT - 1:50 PM EDT

Talk

Patrick Grenier, Ouranos (Speaker)

Jean-Pierre Blanchet, Université du Québec à Montréal (Speaker)

Central to solving the climate change problem is the design of sophisticated observational means and model systems. The integration of reliable mea...

Wednesday 26 May, 2021

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

9:30 AM

Christian Gollier: How should Society be organized to fight climate change? The economics viewpoint

1 hour 15 minutes, 9:30 AM EDT - 10:45 AM EDT

Talk

Christian Gollier, Toulouse School of Economics (Speaker)

In order to win the world war against climate change, one will have to incentivize billions of people andentreprises to implement a myriad of micro...

10:50 AM

Matthew Paterson: The centrality of politics to climate change and the problem of climate politics

1 hour 15 minutes, 10:50 AM EDT - 12:05 PM EDT

Talk

Matthew Paterson, University of Lethbridge (Speaker)

Integrating the social sciences into knowledge production about climate change is widely recognized as difficult, for various reasons. But politica...

12:35 PM

Stephen Gardiner: The centrality of ethics and justice to climate change

1 hour 15 minutes, 12:35 PM EDT - 1:50 PM EDT

Talk

Stephen Gardiner, University of Washington (Speaker)

Thursday 27 May, 2021

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

10:50 AM

Susan L. Joslyn: Communicating Climate Change: A Cognitive Perspective

1 hour 15 minutes, 10:50 AM EDT - 12:05 PM EDT

Talk

Susan Joslyn, University of Washington (Speaker)

This lecture will describe a research program directed at uncovering the cognitive mechanisms involved in non-expert understanding and use of infor...

12:35 PM

Thomas Dietz: What we know and what we need to know about climate decision making

1 hour 15 minutes, 12:35 PM EDT - 1:50 PM EDT

Talk

Thomas Dietz, Michigan State University (Speaker)

Research on environmental decision-making provides a strong basis for understanding decision that have consequence for climate. In particular, thre...

2:00 PM

John Robinson: Normalizing Sustainability: beyond behaviour change

1 hour 15 minutes, 2:00 PM EDT - 3:15 PM EDT

Talk

John Robinson, University of Toronto (Speaker)

Typical arguments for why we have not yet come close to achieving our climate and sustainability goals have to do with the power of vested interest...

Friday 28 May, 2021

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

9:30 AM

Stephan Lewandowsky: Climate denial: drivers and consequences

1 hour 15 minutes, 9:30 AM EDT - 10:45 AM EDT

Talk

Stephan Lewandowsky, University of Bristol (Speaker)

I will examine both the “supply side” and “demand side” of climate denial. On the supply side I will report the evidence for the organized dissemin...

10:50 AM

Sander van der Linden: A Psychological Vaccine Against Misinformation about Climate Change

1 hour 15 minutes, 10:50 AM EDT - 12:05 PM EDT

Talk

Sander van der Linden, University of Cambridge (Speaker)

Much like a viral contagion, false information about climate change can spread rapidly from one individual to another. Moreover, once lodged in mem...

4:00 PM

Poster Session I (in GatherTown)

55 minutes, 4:00 PM EDT - 4:55 PM EDT

Poster Session

5:00 PM

John Cook: Using inoculation and critical thinking to counter climate science denial

1 hour 15 minutes, 5:00 PM EDT - 6:15 PM EDT

Talk

John Cook, Monash University (Speaker)

Misinformation about climate change confuses the public, reduces support for mitigation policies, and cancels out accurate information. Inoculation...

Tuesday 1 June, 2021

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

10:00 AM

Connie Roser-Renouf: Effective Climate Communication Begins When We Meet Audiences Where They Are

1 hour 15 minutes, 10:00 AM EDT - 11:15 AM EDT

Talk

Connie Roser-Renouf, George Mason University (Speaker)

Audience segmentation in the U.S. and Canada has identified discrete groups with beliefs and values that predispose them to ignore, dispute, or att...

11:20 AM

Matthew A. Shapiro: Climate change-related communication challenges and the impact on the policy making process

1 hour 15 minutes, 11:20 AM EDT - 12:35 PM EDT

Talk

Matthew A. Shapiro, Illinois Institute of Technology (Speaker)

This presentation considers the varied ways that one can model and analyze the science-politics communication processwith regard to climate change....

Wednesday 2 June, 2021

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

9:30 AM

Thibaud Griessinger: From individual action to systemic change: How can cognitive science contribute to the emergence of more sustainable and resilient social organisations

1 hour 15 minutes, 9:30 AM EDT - 10:45 AM EDT

Talk

Thibaud Griessinger, ACTE Lab (Speaker)

The level of ecological degradation caused by human activities now presents such a risk of global instability that we have no choice but to rethink...

3:45 PM

Poster Session II (in GatherTown)

50 minutes, 3:45 PM EDT - 4:35 PM EDT

4:35 PM

Best Poster Award (in GatherTown)

20 minutes, 4:35 PM EDT - 4:55 PM EDT

5:00 PM

Ben Newell: From “why should I bother?” to “Yes, we can!”: Risk, willingness, and cooperation in action on climate change

1 hour 15 minutes, 5:00 PM EDT - 6:15 PM EDT

Talk

Ben Newell, UNSW Sydney (Speaker)

A complete policy response to climate change, habitat destruction, plastic pollution, and other Anthropocene challenges requires action by governme...

Thursday 3 June, 2021

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

11:15 AM

John Ehrenfeld: Flourishing, not sustainability, is the right vision for the future

1 hour 15 minutes, 11:15 AM EDT - 12:30 PM EDT

Talk

John Ehrenfeld, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Speaker)

1-Flourishing, not sustainability, is the right vision for the future2- The Right Way to Flourish....

5:00 PM

Robert Costanza: Overcoming our societal addiction to growth

1 hour 15 minutes, 5:00 PM EDT - 6:15 PM EDT

Talk

Robert Costanza (Speaker)

Friday 4 June, 2021

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

9:00 AM

Julia Steinberger: Struggle for survival: The importance of climate activism from the perspectives of political economy and science communication

1 hour 15 minutes, 9:00 AM EDT - 10:15 AM EDT

Talk

Julia Steinberger, University of Leeds (Speaker)

Climate activism is crucial for any sustained progress on climate action. I will discuss this from two systemic perspectives in social science: pol...

11:40 AM

Clare Saunders: Climate change activism in the UK: Continuity and change over the last 20 years

1 hour 15 minutes, 11:40 AM EDT - 12:55 PM EDT

Talk

Clare Saunders, University of Exeter (Speaker)

Climate activism has been hitting the streets since the early 2000s, but has come in notable peaks and troughs. What is it that causes those peaks ...

4:15 PM

One last time in Gather.Town

1 hour 15 minutes, 4:15 PM EDT - 5:30 PM EDT

Social