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Working with an Advisory Group to Co-design Innovative Intergenerational Climate Change Research
Aled Singleton 
Journal of Responsible Innovation
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Aled Singleton
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This article discusses the challenges and potential of working with an Advisory Group on intergenerational climate change research. We co-design creative workshops to explore and articulate climate change perceptions and future imaginaries between younger and older people in Wales, UK. This 12-month...
| Published in: | Journal of Responsible Innovation |
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa66994 |
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This article discusses the challenges and potential of working with an Advisory Group on intergenerational climate change research. We co-design 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 bespoke bilingual (Welsh and English) comic. Using a research diary format, we show how to practically follow the Responsible Research and Innovation dimensions of reflexivity, inclusion, anticipation, and responsiveness. The voices of four members of the Advisory Group and the 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. In particular, we reflect on place-based practice intergenerational workshops focused on climate change, sharing a methods toolkit for community learning, the involvement of policy makers as co-designers in research and the ongoing need for community-university partnerships. |
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intergenerational solidarity, healthy ageing, climate change, creative methods, imaginaries, perceptions |
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Faculty of Science and Engineering |