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A Climate-Changed Holiday: Interrailing in a Heatwave
This August, we ventured a little further afield than our usual staycation. Wanting to keep our carbon footprint as low as possible, this meant trains. LOTS of trains. Over the course of two weeks, we travelled by rail from Wales to France, Italy, Austria, Slovenia, and Switzerland, finishing at my parents’ in the Isles of Scilly, England. We took four night trains, visited eight UNESCO World Heritage Sites, travelled 3,330 miles, stood 3,572 metres above sea level at the Jun
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Aug 255 min read
Climate Comic & Activity Book impact summary: Building Bridges for Climate Action
By Merryn Thomas, University of Exeter and Swansea University; Tom Basher, Education Adviser, Partneriaeth; and Jennifer Twelvetrees, founder, Women4Resources. The Climate Comic and Activity Book are bilingual resources co-created with communities to spark intergenerational conversations and inspire climate action. Born from the OPTIC study (Understanding Older and younger people's PerspecTives and Imaginaries of Climate change), these tools capture real stories and ideas
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Jul 23, 20254 min read
OPTIC update: Embracing Intergenerational Collaboration for Climate Action
By Dr. Carol Maddock for the March CADR newsletter. Climate change represents a significant challenge to both human and planetary...
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Mar 21, 20253 min read
Co-Designing Climate Resilient Environments for Ageing Well: Insights from the OPTIC Project
By Carol Maddock and Merryn Thomas Climate change is the single greatest health threat facing humanity today, and older adults are...
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Aug 29, 20243 min read
Intergenerational Climate Change Games with OPTIC
22nd February, 2024 This blog was originally posted on the CADR website. The OPTIC team were delighted to host CADR friends and Swansea...
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Feb 22, 20243 min read
Invite - INTERGENERATIONAL CLIMATE GAMES & LUNCH 22/01/24
The OPTIC project has been exploring older and younger peoples’ perceptions and imaginaries of climate change. We are creating an...
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Nov 28, 20231 min read
OPTIC: Understanding Older people’s PerspecTives and Imaginaries of Climate change
I'm very excited to be leading OPTIC, a new project in the Centre for Ageing and Dementia Research (CADR), working with colleagues in...
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Sep 23, 20222 min read
"It was a blast”: creating the Shout Trout Workout comic and video to engage young people with fish
From a blog post published on People and Nature's Relational Thinking blog here. For the open access paper published in People and...
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Apr 28, 20222 min read
Attuning to the environment using arts-based research
From a blog post on the FIRE Lab website here I recently participated in the excellent ‘Introduction to Citizen Artist’ course run by...
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Apr 28, 20222 min read
SeaChange: engaging publics with sea-level change
The SeaChange Exhibition was held at The Gate Arts and Community Centre in Roath, Cardiff, in October-November 2015. This interactive...
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Dec 2, 20201 min read
Skybear: engaging young people with Bumblebees
Have you ever met a skybear, Its body all a-fuzz? You will know one when you meet one, For the air will fill with buzz… My first...
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Dec 2, 20201 min read
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