Who was part of the research team?
This team facilitated workshops with the participants who contributed to this exhibition, developed toolkits to capture temperature life stories, and much more!
Dr. Alan Kennedy-Asser
Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol
Alan is a climate scientist whose research focuses on changing heatwave frequency in the UK, with a current focus on human health impacts.
Caleb Parkin
Bristol City Poet
Caleb has a wealth of experience in activities where poetry and group practice are a means of accessing research and a mode of inquiry themselves. He has an explicit interest in environmental issues in his role as Bristol City Poet.
Dr. Clifton Evers
Cultural Studies, Newcastle University
Clifton’s research background includes wide-ranging experience in creative and participatory research methods, which have been applied to environmental topics such as pollution and blue spaces.
Ellie Shipman
Artist and Illustrator
Ellie’s past work has included making the invisible visible, for example an artwork on air pollution deaths, and has done research on participatory art and community climate resilience.
Dr. Kirk Sides
English, University of Bristol
Kirk specialises in African environmental literatures, his current work explores environmental and decolonial thinking in African literatures. He also runs workshops on science fiction, storytelling and climate change.
Karen MacDonald
Bristol Museums
Karen will assist in the outreach to community groups for participants and developing longer-term outcomes from the project.
Dr. Cassandra Phoenix
Durham University
Cassandra researches the connections between health, wellbeing and the environment by examining people’s engagement with and connection to “nature”, through projects such as Weathered Lives.
Sarah Mountford
Windmill Hill City Farm
Sarah will assist with participant recruitment, exploring the intrinsic connection between horticulture and the weather
