Environmental Communication

Environmental Communication at the University of Brighton is a dynamic and cutting-edge research area that helps envision and create more sustainable societies through its focus upon the central role of media and communication in shaping understandings of and responses to environmental and climate change.

Your Environmental communication PhD at the University of Brighton University of Brighton will address the urgent challenges of environmental and climate change through media, communication and practice, with the vision to create sustainable and environmentally just societies.

Key facts

As an Environmental Communication Environmental Communication PhD student at Brighton, you will benefit from:

• a supervisory team comprising two or sometimes three members of academic staff. Depending on your research specialism you may also have an additional supervisor from another school, another research institution, or an external partner from government or industry.

• access to desk space and computers.

• access to a range of electronic resources via the university’s online library, as well as to the physical book and journal collections housed within the Aldrich Library and other campus libraries. 

• Recent and current PhD students have been successful in obtaining studentships covering both fees and living costs through the University of Brighton’s involvement in the AHRC TECHNE and the ESRC SCDTP programmes.

Research areas include:

• Climate change communication and public engagement

• Bid data, everyday life and environmental sustainability

• ‘Smart’ technologies as tools for change

• Intelligent/sustainable transport and mobility

• Visual communication of environment/climate change

• Human-animal relations and speciesism

• Popular culture, media and environment

• Ethical subjectivities in the Anthropocene

• Climate activism and climate justice

• Media and climate induced migration

• Art, creativity and climate change

• Youth engagement with environmental and climate change

• Participatory and creative methods for engagement

• Sustainable food production and consumption

• (Anti) consumerism

• Celebrity and climate change

• Sustainable ways of living

• Feminist approaches and interventions

• Community media