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Working with an advisory group to co-create innovative intergenerational climate change research
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Merryn Thomas ,
Carol Maddock ,
Aelwyn Williams,
Deborah Morgan ,
Charles B. A. Musselwhite ,
Tavi Murray,
Jennifer Twelvetrees,
Tom Bateman,
Russell De’Ath,
Luci Attala ,
Laura Sorvala
Cogent Gerontology, Volume: 4, Issue: 1, Start page: 2587010
Swansea University Authors:
Carol Maddock , Aelwyn Williams, Deborah Morgan , Tavi Murray
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DOI (Published version): 10.1080/28324897.2025.2587010
Abstract
This article discusses the opportunities of working with an Advisory Group on intergenerational climate change research. We co-created creative workshops to explore and articulate climate change perceptions and future imaginaries between younger and older people in Wales, UK. This 12-month programme...
| Published in: | Cogent Gerontology |
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| ISSN: | 2832-4897 |
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Informa UK Limited
2025
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa71095 |
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This article discusses the opportunities of working with an Advisory Group on intergenerational climate change research. We co-created creative workshops to explore and articulate climate change perceptions and future imaginaries between younger and older people in Wales, UK. This 12-month programme of research activities led to a bilingual (Welsh and English) and bespoke comic, and a follow-up project that co-created an intergenerational activity book. Using a research diary format, we show how to practically follow the Responsible Research and Innovation dimensions of inclusion, reflexivity, anticipation, and responsiveness during the data collection stage. The opportunities for co-creation discussed here relate to two main areas: imagining and communicating futures through intergenerational workshops; and the extent to which the Advisory Group were co-creators. The voices of four members of the Advisory Group and the work of comic book artist show the benefits of an early involvement of time, resource and trust in a group who are potential critics, advocates, and bridge-builders. We make four recommendations: the importance of time and imagination in intergenerational climate research; the value of Advisory Groups in improving participatory methods; the need for sustained community-university partnerships and that Advisory Groups should be involved from the very beginning of research. |
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Intergenerational solidarity, climate change, co-creative methods, imaginaries, advisory group, participatory geography, responsible research and innovation |
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Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Sciences |
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This work was supported by the University of Stirling Ageing and Place: Pandemic Recovery and Action on Climate CHange (APPROACH) fund, as part the Social Behavioral & Design Research Program (UK Research and Innovation) under grant number ES/T014016/1. It was supported by the Center for Ageing and Dementia Research (Swansea University) with equipment provided by the Awen Institute. We received further funding from the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales via the Research Wales Innovation Fund through Swansea University and an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Impact Acceleration Account (IAA) grant through Swansea University. |
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2587010 |