Risk, Future Narratives and Sustainability

We are thrilled to share the news that our project to support students’ critical engagement with risk, responsibility and sustainability has been awarded a Circle U. Interdisciplinary Thematic Research Network (ITRN) grant. We are an interdisciplinary team of researchers based at Aarhus University, the University of Oslo, and Humboldt University of Berlin. The title of our project is “Risk, Future […]

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Global Health, Sustainable Development and Individual Responsibility

We are delighted to announce that our CircleU team of researchers from the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare Education (SHE), University of Oslo, University of Belgrade, and Kings College London has been awarded funding for an Interdisciplinary Thematic Research Network on the topic of “Global Health, Sustainable Development and Individual Responsibility: contradictory or complementary concepts?”   The tension between individual responsibility […]

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Visual Representations of Science in a Pandemic: COVID-19 in Images

Ana Delicado and Jussara Rowland Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal   Frontiers in Communication, 07 May 2021 Section: Science and Environmental Communication https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2021.645725   This article aims to contribute to the understanding of the social dimensions of the 2020 pandemic, with a particular emphasis on the visual practices of science communication in times of health emergency, […]

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Constructing COVID-19: A corpus-informed analysis of prime ministerial crisis response communication by gender

    Kate Power University of Queensland, Business School, Australia Peter Crosthwaite University of Queensland, School of Languages and Cultures, Australia     Discourse & Society Volume: 33 issue: 3, page(s): 411-437 Article first published online: April 26, 2022; Issue published: May 1, 2022 https://doi.org/10.1177/09579265221076612 Abstract This paper compares Australian and New Zealand Prime Ministers’ crisis response communication about COVID-19. […]

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