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Tackling Climate Change with the Social Sciences Workshop Series 24/25

Join YESI and IGDC for a series of workshops that will bring researchers together to share and mobilise social science approaches, methods and perspectives to meet the challenges posed by climate change at the local and global scale. 

Workshops are open to all York researchers, and will aim to develop research project ideas driven by social science approaches and methods, although researchers from other disciplines are welcome.

Session 2: Envisaging futures and authentic co-production

What sort of society do we want to live in?  How do we make the best of the future? This workshop will explore how research in the social sciences can help us to envision and create positive futures based on an understanding of the drivers and direction of change and an examination of action and influence at different scales (local, regional, national, global).  Particular attention will be paid to inclusive, politically engaged co-creative methods of researching with and for future generations. By the end of the workshop, we will have identified fundamental challenges - ethical, methodological, conceptual - that are encountered, and associated research questions to underpin or inspire future (joint) working.   

Full Session List

This session is part of a series exploring different aspects of climate change and social sciences including:

• Session 1: Working with uncertainty and systems thinking (30th October)
• Session 2: Envisaging futures and authentic co-production (2nd December)
• Session 3: Just transitions and power relationships (12th Feb)
• Session 4: Co-benefits and synergies (14th May)

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